Coping with Climate Change
Tropical Solutions
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Beschreibung
This book focuses on a wide variety of topics linking the effects of global warming to major aspects of life in the tropics elucidating practical methods to mitigate these negative effects. This book provides practical, novel and widely applicable forms of best practice that improve the lives of those people living and working in tropical areas of the world. This research explains avenues that can be taken to improve human health and comfort, increasing food security, conserving energy and helping to preserve the air, soil and water quality of these precariously placed nations. These compiled research articles can assist governments and populations to cope with the changing conditions entailed in developing and tropical nations.
This book focuses on a wide variety of topics linking the effects of global warming to major aspects of life in the tropics elucidating practical methods to mitigate these negative effects. This book provides practical, novel and widely applicable forms of best practice that improve the lives of those people living and working in tropical areas of the world. This research explains avenues that can be taken to improve human health and comfort, increasing food security, conserving energy and helping to preserve the air, soil and water quality of these precariously placed nations. These compiled research articles can assist governments and populations to cope with the changing conditions entailed in developing and tropical nations.
120 colour illustrations, each cited in the text, described in detail and closely tied to the text
Prevents new research to apply innovative techniques to reduce fossil fuel usage and maintain and increase crop yields in changing tropical environmental conditions.
Every chapter contains proven, experiments using newly aquired knowledge
Autor*in
Mark Harris
Themen in »Coping with Climate Change«
Anthracnose Carbon sequestration Clean weeding Climate change Global warming Humidification Invasive softwoods Thunderstorm correlations Trade winds Tropical deforestation