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Living With Climate Change

  • 1st Edition - December 1, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Trevor Letcher
  • Language: English

Living with Climate Change contains different topics on how to adapt to global warming. With a strong focus on ways of adapting to climate change, the book also examines the root c… Read more

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Description

Living with Climate Change contains different topics on how to adapt to global warming. With a strong focus on ways of adapting to climate change, the book also examines the root causes of global warming. Readers are provided all the most up-to-date thinking and information on each issue due to the extensive list of references connected to each chapter. By linking various topics and interesting new innovations that are often synergistic, this book covers a wide range of issues in global warming adaptation that is ideal for readers from many disciplines.

Key features

  • Covers ways of coping with global warming and climate change
  • Contains the most up-to-date information on how to prevent the worst effects of global warming
  • Discusses the connection of climate change to human health

Readership

Environmentalists involved in decision making in government and also, urban planners, academicians, researchers and graduate students in the field of architecture, farming, forestry, social science, future energy, medical practitioners and especially environmental sciences Financial investors looking for new lucrative opportunities, captains of industry at all levels of government, decision makers and newspapers editors and reporters. The focus here would be on new areas for investment such as renewable energy, new farming and forestry methods, new housing designs, flood defenses, and new ways of coping with global warming

Table of contents

A. INTRODUCTION

1. The root causes of global warming and the new normal

2. Strategies for mitigation of climate change

B. ARCHITECTURE

3. Architectural Designs for the Future

4. Adobe Houses for a climate changing world

5. Climate Change adaptive measures for buildings

6. The effect of Climate Change on the built environment

7. Wind adaption in cities in the light of a changing climate

8. Wind resistant housing

C. FARMING, FORESTRY, WATER MANAGEMENT AND THE ECOSYSTEM

9. Agriculture in a changing climate

10. Impact of Climate Change on agriculture and its mitigating strategies

11. Farmers views on Climate Change (Finland)

12. Climate Change and adaptive water management for the global south

13. Climate change and flooding and mitigation

14. Soil function and climate change – mitigation, Improve soil so that it acts as a carbon storage system

15. Soil erosion and global warming

16. Forest Fires and Climate Change and mitigating techniques

17. Connection of Climate Change and Forrest Fires in Australia; mitigating techniques

18. Fire Pollution and mitigating techniques

19. Climate Change and the Risk of Wild Fires

20. Reduce beef Production, reduce meat eating

21. Reducing climate impacts of beef production

22. Global warming and beef production

23. Climate Change and Eco-systems

D. HUMAN HEALTH

24. Human health and climate change

25. Climate Change and Mental Health

26. Heat related mortality in the light of Global Warming and mitigating strategies

E. HUMAN MIGRATION

27. Human Migration

F. ETHICS, JUSTICE, ECONOMICS AND THE INDIVIDUAL

28. Climate Change and the Individual

29. Ethics and Climate Change

30. Justice in a climate changing world, Justice for global warming

31. Economics of global warming, Redistribution of wealth, Degrowth?

G. THE BIG PICTURE: WHAT MUST BE DONE

32. Renewable Energy: The Future of Solar Energy

33. Renewable Energy: The Future of Wind Energy

34. Renewable Energy: The Future of Green Hydrogen to replace natural gas

35. Renewable Energy: The future of Tidal Energy

36. Renewable Energy: The Future of Wave Energy

37. Renewable Energy: The Future of Geothermal Energy

38. The Future of Nuclear Power and Small Modular Rectors

Review quotes

"I valued the approach and ambition of this volume to provide insight and expansive reference lists from experts across diverse sectors and regions of the world.... The volume works well as a reference or guide for further learning for scientists exploring new fields, policymakers, and the many folks engaged in the work of climate adaptation.... This is what I often ask students to do when I teach—find what is meaningful to them and dive deeper.... Living with Climate Change would enable an educator to take this approach in their course and is most suitable for graduate-level classes." Review by Heidi Steltzer, The Quarterly Review of Biology, December 2025

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: December 4, 2023
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Trevor Letcher

Professor Trevor Letcher is an Emeritus Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and living in the United Kingdom. He was previously Professor of Chemistry, and Head of Department, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Rhodes University, and Natal, in South Africa (1969-2004). He has published over 300 papers on areas such as chemical thermodynamic and waste from landfill in peer reviewed journals, and 100 papers in popular science and education journals. Prof. Letcher has edited and/or written 32 major books, of which 22 were published by Elsevier, on topics ranging from future energy, climate change, storing energy, waste, tyre waste and recycling, wind energy, solar energy, managing global warming, plastic waste, renewable energy, and environmental disasters. He has been awarded gold medals by the South African Institute of Chemistry and the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics honoured him with a Festschrift in 2018. He is a life member of both the Royal Society of Chemistry (London) and the South African Institute of Chemistry. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, and is a Director of the Board of the International Association of Chemical Thermodynamics since 2002.
Affiliations and expertise
Emeritus Professor, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

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