Environmental Assessment of the Alaskan Continental Shelf
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 45,64 MB
Release : 1979-03
Category : Continental shelf
ISBN :
Wild Mammals of North America
Author : George A. Feldhamer
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 1250 pages
File Size : 38,21 MB
Release : 2003-11-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780801874161
Book Description
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Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples in the United States
Author : Julie Koppel Maldonado
Publisher : Springer
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 40,65 MB
Release : 2014-04-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319052667
Book Description
With a long history and deep connection to the Earth’s resources, indigenous peoples have an intimate understanding and ability to observe the impacts linked to climate change. Traditional ecological knowledge and tribal experience play a key role in developing future scientific solutions for adaptation to the impacts. The book explores climate-related issues for indigenous communities in the United States, including loss of traditional knowledge, forests and ecosystems, food security and traditional foods, as well as water, Arctic sea ice loss, permafrost thaw and relocation. The book also highlights how tribal communities and programs are responding to the changing environments. Fifty authors from tribal communities, academia, government agencies and NGOs contributed to the book. Previously published in Climatic Change, Volume 120, Issue 3, 2013.
The Rough Guide to Climate Change
Author : Robert Henson
Publisher : Rough Guides UK
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 20,40 MB
Release : 2011-05-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 140538865X
Book Description
The Rough Guide to Climate Change gives the complete picture of the single biggest issue facing the planet. Cutting a swathe through scientific research and political debate, this completely updated 3rd edition lays out the facts and assesses the options-global and personal-for dealing with the threat of a warming world. The guide looks at the evolution of our atmosphere over the last 4.5 billion years and what computer simulations of climate change reveal about our past, present and future. This updated edition includes scientific findings that have emerged since the 2007 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), as well as background on recent controversies and an updated politics section that reflects post-Copenhagen developments. Discover how rising temperatures and sea levels, plus changes to extreme weather patterns, are already affecting life around the world. The Rough Guide to Climate Change unravels how governments, scientists and engineers plan to tackle the problem and includes information on what you can do to help.
Complete Atlas of the World, 3rd Edition
Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 25,25 MB
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1465455280
Book Description
Complete Atlas of the World, 3rd Edition is now fully revised and updated to reflect the latest changes in world geography, including the annexation of Crimea and the new nation of South Sudan. Bringing each featured landscape to life with detailed terrain models and color schemes and offering maps of unsurpassed quality, this atlas features four sections: a world overview, the main atlas, fact files on all the countries of the world, and an easy-to-reference index of all 100,000 place names. All maps enjoy a full double-page spread, with continents broken down into 330 carefully selected maps, including 100 city plans. You will also find a stimulating series of global thematic maps that explore Earth's place in the universe, its physical forms and processes, the living world, and the human condition. From Antarctica to Zambia, discover the Earth continent-by-continent with Complete Atlas of the World, 3rd Edition.
Traditional Plant Foods of Canadian Indigenous Peoples
Author : Harriet Kuhnlein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 33,46 MB
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1000092283
Book Description
First published in 1991, Traditional Plant Foods of Canadian Indigenous Peoples details the nutritional properties, botanical characteristics and ethnic uses of a wide variety of traditional plant foods used by the Indigenous Peoples of Canada. Comprehensive and detailed, this volume explores both the technical use of plants and their cultural connections. It will be of interest to scholars from a variety of backgrounds, including Indigenous Peoples with their specific cultural worldviews; nutritionists and other health professionals who work with Indigenous Peoples and other rural people; other biologists, ethnologists, and organizations that address understanding of the resources of the natural world; and academic audiences from a variety of disciplines.
Reference World Atlas
Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 27,91 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1465421181
Book Description
A beautifully clear, detailed, and fully revised and updated guide, DK's Reference World Atlas gives a superb overview of all the world's regions. Providing a detailed reference map set, the atlas also features computer-generated terrain-modeled maps and the landscapes, bringing an all-new dimension to cartography. This ninth edition of DK's respected Reference World Atlas includes all recent border, place name, and flag changes from around the world, including the emerging state of South Sudan.
Anthropological Survey in Alaska
Author : Aleš Hrdlička
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 18,73 MB
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Book Description
This work presents a report of the anthropological survey conducted in the largest state of the USA, Alaska. The author includes several details on human behavior, cultures, and societies in Alaska in the present and past. In addition, he makes enlightening observations on the patterns of behavior, cultural meaning, norms and values of the people of Alaska.
Alaska Subsistence
Author : Frank Blaine Norris
Publisher :
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 38,13 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Alaska
ISBN :
Book Description
"This study is a chronicle of how subsistence management in Alaska has grown and evolved"--P. viii.
Arctic Climate Impact Assessment - Scientific Report
Author : Arctic Climate Impact Assessment
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1053 pages
File Size : 46,7 MB
Release : 2005-11-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521865093
Book Description
The Arctic is now experiencing some of the most rapid and severe climate change on earth. Over the next 100 years, climate change is expected to accelerate, contributing to major physical, ecological, social, and economic changes, many of which have already begun. Changes in arctic climate will also affect the rest of the world through increased global warming and rising sea levels. Arctic Climate Impact Assessment was prepared by an international team of over 300 scientists, experts, and knowledgeable members of indigenous communities. The report has been thoroughly researched, is fully referenced, and provides the first comprehensive evaluation of arctic climate change, changes in ultraviolet radiation and their impacts for the region and for the world. It is illustrated in full color throughout. The results provided the scientific foundations for the ACIA synthesis report - Impacts of a Warming Arctic - published by Cambridge University Press in 2004.
