System change not climate change

System Change Not Climate Change

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Understanding climate change

– Understanding the greenhouse effect – The Earth's climate system – The climate change – Effects of climate change – What can I do?

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Climate Change and the Health Sector

This volume positions the health sector as a leader in the fight against climate change and explores the role of the health system in climate policy a

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Climate Change and the Health Sector

This volume positions the health sector as a leader in the fight against climate change and explores the role of the health system in climate policy a

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Making Change Work

Creating and demonstrating value from change initiatives, projects and programs is the mandate of the day. Programs and processes are held to a new level of accountability; they must demonstrate value beyond the activity itself. However, according to an ATD and ROI Institute study, only 8% of CEOs are currently seeing business impact data from their initiatives. When the ...

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Terrestrial Coastal Ecosystems in Germany and Climate Change

The impact will be not only severe for coastal people, but still more for the unique coastal ecosystems, which harbors many plant and animal species t

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Forces of Production, Climate Change and Canadian Fossil Capitalism

In this brilliant reimagining of Marx's concept of forces of production, Graham shows that the power of fossil capital, not technological deficiency,

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Oxford Bookworms Library Factfiles: Level 2:: Climate Change Audio Pack

It's a terrible problem - or it's really not as bad as people say. There will be sudden big changes - or slower changes that we can learn to live with

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Climate Change and Sustainable Development Taylor & Francis Ltd

Climate Change and Sustainable Development covers the climatic and atmospheric changes, greenhouse gases and their impact on eco-system, biodiversity, water resources, agriculture and food security, human health, extreme weather and environment across two sections. The mitigation and adaptation strategies involving sustainable development is also illustrated including eff...

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Climate System Dynamics and Modelling

This textbook presents all aspects of climate system dynamics, on all timescales from the Earth's formation to modern human-induced climate change. It

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Climate Actions

Through many actionable examples of mitigation efforts for the ever-present effects of climate change, especially for those who may not understand the

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Climate Clever

This is the first book-length study of political strategy and climate change and will be of interest not only to policymakers but also to experts and

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Climate Strike

Climate change is a product of the entire social and economic system within which we exist, in a word, capitalism.

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Oxford Bookworms Factfiles New Edition 2 Climate Change with Audio Mp3 Pack - kolektiv autorů

Anotace: Published 2016.Elementary to Pre-Intermediate CEF level A2/B1 - 700 HeadwordsOxford Bookworms enjoy a world-wide reputation for high-quality storytelling and a great reading experience.Research shows reading a lot improves all your language skills.Experts recognize Oxford Bookworms as the most consistent series in terms of language control, length, and quality o...

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Debating Climate Law

Debating Climate Law explores the most fundamental issues in climate change law. It sheds light on what we do not know about climate law - vexing ques

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Sea Level Change and Maritime Boundaries Taylor & Francis Ltd

Climate change is modifying, in varying measure, the coastal geography of States. The phenomenon is not temporary but is expected to carry on during the 21st century and beyond. A distinctive feature of modern international law is the concept of maritime zones. Each maritime area is subject to an intricate scheme of States’ rights and obligations. Coastal geography is a ...

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Future Is Not Fixed

This anthology includes a collection of fifty plays by writers from across the world commissioned for Climate Change Theatre Action 2021. The plays en

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How to Avoid a Climate Disaste - neuveden

Anotace: In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical - and accessible - plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe. <br>Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, b...

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Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval - Gaia Vince

<p>Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize, the Zócalo Book Prize and the Christopher Moore Prize For Human Rights Writing 'Gaia Vince's new book should be read not just by every politician, but by every person on the planet' ObserverAn urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change: how it will force us to change where - and how ...

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Government Deals are Funded, Not Sold

This book focuses on those who do not lobby. ItÂ’s almost too easy to conclude the system is unfair, unlikely to change, and populated by well-connect

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Sea and Summer

The ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD-winning novel of climate change in the not-too-distant future.

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Fundamentals of Meteorology

In addition to addressing general topics such as climate system dynamics and climate change, the book also discusses atmospheric boundary layer, atmos

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Global Green Shift

The greening of industry is described as a global process driven not so much by Western countries concerned with climate change as by China, India and

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The Ministry for the Future (0356508862)

Kniha - autor Kim Stanley Robinson, 592 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, postapocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us. Chosen by Barack Obama as one of hi...

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Nomad Century

An urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change: how it will force us to change where - and how - we liveWe are facing a species emergency. With every degree of temperature rise, a billion people will be displaced from the zone in which humans have lived for thousands of years. While we must do everything we can to mitigate the imp...

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The Second-Order Predation Hypothesis of Pleistocene Extinctions

The end of the last Ice Age (Pleistocene) saw: 1)§significant climate and vegetation changes, 2) the§introduction of humans to the New World, and 3) major§megafaunal extinctions.§The leading theories of these extinctions climate§change and overkill are inadequate neither explains§why: 1) ruminants survived better than non-ruminants;§2) many mammal species were diminis...

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The Weight of Nature - Clayton Aldern

<p>A riveting, revelatory account of how the climate emergency is changing us from the inside outIt is now inarguable that climate change threatens the future of life on Earth. But in The Weight of Nature, award-winning journalist and neuroscientist Clayton Page Aldern shows that the warming climate is not just affecting our planet – it is affecting our brains and b...

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Good Time to be a Girl

Five years have passed since women were exhorted to `Lean In'. Over that time, the world has transformed beyond all expectations. But why should anyone `lean in' to a patriarchal system that is out of date? Why not change it entirely for the good of us all?

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Revival: Recolonization

Early Access Game Note: This Early Access game is not complete and may or may not change further. Set in a post-apoc version of Earth, Revival is a 4x strategy game where the world and its rules can change at key moments, creating a deep and highly replayable experience. Explore a transformed planet, negotiate or conquer new territories and bring the light of civilization...

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Bad Dream: Fever (PC) Steam

The world is covered in strange ink, an unknown plague has gathered its cruel harvest. The city seems to be completely empty and dead, but in its every corner there are manifestations of fear, sorrow, frustration, misunderstanding, loneliness, and suffering. The situation looks hopelessly, but not everything is lost yet... Enter the feverish dream and experience its abst...

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Bad Dream: Fever (PC) Steam (PC)

The world is covered in strange ink, an unknown plague has gathered its cruel harvest. The city seems to be completely empty and dead, but in its every corner there are manifestations of fear, sorrow, frustration, misunderstanding, loneliness, and suffering. The situation looks hopelessly, but not everything is lost yet...Enter the feverish dream and experience its abstra...

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Sustainable Buildings: Environmental Awareness in Architecture - Dorian Lucas

Buildings from all over the world using the latest developments, innovations and achievements of eco-friendly architecture. Climate change and environmental pollution, rising energy prices and dwindling resources pose major challenges for the world of construction today. If sustainability is to become a global reality, it must also be designed and expressed with trend-set...

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New Russia

After years of rapprochement, the relationship between Russia and the West is more strained now than it has ever been in the past 25 years. Putin's motives, his reasons for seeking confrontation with the West, remain for many a mystery. Not for Mikhail Gorbachev. In this new work, Russia's elder statesman draws on his wealth of knowledge and experience to reveal the devel...

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Mandatory Sustainability Requirements in EU Public Procurement Law: Reflections on a Paradigm Shift - Janssen Willem

Anotace: This book provides the first comprehensive appraisal of the paradigm shift towards mandatory sustainability requirements in EU public procurement law.Traditionally, EU public procurement law focused on `how to buy`, dictating procedural rules so that public buyers in the Member States did not discriminate against suppliers and service providers from other Member...

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Revival: Recolonization (PC)

Early Access GameNote: This Early Access game is not complete and may or may not change further.Set in a post-apoc version of Earth, Revival is a 4x strategy game where the world and its rules can change at key moments, creating a deep and highly replayable experience. Explore a transformed planet, negotiate or conquer new territories and bring the light of civilization t...

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Enlightenment Now : The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress - Steven Pinker

<p>'My new favourite book of all time' Bill GatesTOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERIs modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible?</p> <p>If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking into chaos, hatred, and irrationality. Yet Steven Pinker shows that this is an i...

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PRAID EP580i FH/LP (S26361-F4042-L508)

Description - SAS/SATA/PCIE-NVMe RAID Controller based on LSI MegaRAID SAS3516 - for up to 16 internal SAS/SATA HDD, SSD, for up to 4 times x4 PCIe-NVMe SSD or 8 times x2 PCIe NVMe SSD (if available) - RAID Levels 0, 1, 10, 5, 50, 6, 60 - TFM already included - 8GB Cache -a later change to this controller or a downgrade to other RAID controller can require different SAS...

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Inferences with Ignorance: Logics of Questions - Michal Peliš

Anotace: Inferences with Ignorance focuses on two formal logic systems that employ the type of inferences in which questions are used in addition to statements. Not merely capturing questions as part of a logical apparatus, Michal Peliš also emphasizes the role of question-asking in communication. The book presents options for formalizing questions using sets of "di...

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Inferences with Ignorance

Inferences with Ignorance focuses on two formal logic systems that employ the type of inferences in which questions are used in addition to statements. Not merely capturing questions as part of a logical apparatus, Michal Peliš also emphasizes the role of question-asking in communication. The book presents options for formalizing questions using sets of “direct answers,” ...

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Inferences with Ignorance: Logics of Questions - Michael Peliš

<p>Inferences with Ignorance focuses on two formal logic systems that employ the type of inferences in which questions are used in addition to statements. Not merely capturing questions as part of a logical apparatus, Michal Peliš also emphasizes the role of question-asking in communication. The book presents options for formalizing questions using sets of “direct a...

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The Descent - Hardisty Paul E.

Anotace: A young man and his young family set out on a perilous voyage across a devastated planet to uncover the origin of the events that set the world on its course to disaster ... The prescient, deeply shocking prequel to the bestselling, critically acclaimed Climate Emergency thriller, The Forcing. Kweku Ashworth is a child of the cataclysm, born on a sailboat to p...

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Make, Think, Imagine : The Future of Civilisation - Browne John

Anotace: Today`s unprecedented pace of change leaves many people wondering what new technologies are doing to our lives. Has social media robbed us of our privacy and fed us with false information? Are robots going to take our jobs? Will better healthcare lead to an ageing population that cannot be cared for? And has our demand for energy driven the Earth`s climate to th...

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The Earth Transformed: An Untold History - Frankopan Peter

Anotace: A 2023 HIGHLIGHT FOR: BBC NEWS * SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE * FINANCIAL TIMES * NEW EUROPEAN * GUARDIAN * NEW STATESMAN * THE TIMES * THE WEEK * WATERSTONES * BLACKWELL`SMost people can name the influential leaders and major battles of the past. Few can name the most destructive storms, the worst winters, the most devastating droughts.In The Earth Transformed, ground-...

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Megathreats : Ten Dangerous Trends that Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them - Roubini Nouriel

Anotace: The bestselling author of Crisis Economics argues that we are heading toward the worst economic catastrophe of our lifetimes, unless we can defend against ten terrifying threats.Renowned economist Nouriel Roubini was nicknamed "Dr. Doom," until his prediction of the 2008 housing crisis and Great Recession came true - when it was too late. Now he is back with a m...

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Make, Think, Imagine : The Future of Civilisation - John Browne

<p>Today's unprecedented pace of change leaves many people wondering what new technologies are doing to our lives. Has social media robbed us of our privacy and fed us with false information? Are robots going to take our jobs? Will better healthcare lead to an ageing population that cannot be cared for? And has our demand for energy driven the Earth's climate to the...

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Black Salt Coreuption

Early Access Game Note: This Early Access game is not complete and may or may not change further. Responding to a distress call from an unknown source, Gatling and his team get sucked into a dimensional portal where they find themselves stranded in a mysterious forest in a different world. While exploring the forest, they run into another hero, Black Salt, who has also be...

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Black Salt Coreuption (PC)

Early Access GameNote: This Early Access game is not complete and may or may not change further.Responding to a distress call from an unknown source, Gatling and his team get sucked into a dimensional portal where they find themselves stranded in a mysterious forest in a different world. While exploring the forest, they run into another hero, Black Salt, who has also been...

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Down to Earth : Politics in the New Climatic Regime - Latour Bruno

Anotace: The present ecological mutation has organized the whole political landscape for the last thirty years. This could explain the deadly cocktail of exploding inequalities, massive deregulation, and conversion of the dream of globalization into a nightmare for most people.What holds these three phenomena together is the conviction, shared by some powerful people, th...

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Civilisations: Collapse and Regeneration - Miroslav Bárta,Martin Kovář

Anotace: The present volume is dedicated to the concept of collapse as reflected through different kinds of historical and environmental evidence. A total of twenty-eight in-depth studies provides a heterogenous analyses of the collapse and regeneration processes in societies and civilisations separated in space in time. The individual chapters vary in their locations, c...

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Civilisations: Collapse and regeneration. Rise, fall and transformation in history

The present volume is dedicated to the concept of collapse as reflected through different kinds of historical and environmental evidence. A total of twenty-eight in-depth studies provides a heterogenous analyses of the collapse and regeneration processes in societies and civilisations separated in space in time. The individual chapters vary in their locations, characteris...

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Lessons: the new novel from the author of Atonement - McEwan Ian

Anotace: Lessons is an intimate yet universal story of love, regret and a restless search for answers. While the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines`s life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a...

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Down to Earth : Politics in the New Climatic Regime - Bruno Latour

<p>The present ecological mutation has organized the whole political landscape for the last thirty years. This could explain the deadly cocktail of exploding inequalities, massive deregulation, and conversion of the dream of globalization into a nightmare for most people. What holds these three phenomena together is the conviction, shared by some powerful people, th...

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This is Europe: The Way We Live Now - Ben Judah

<p>What does it now mean to call yourself European? Who makes up this population of 750 million, sprawled from Ireland to Ukraine, from Sweden to Turkey? Who has always called it home, and who has newly arrived from elsewhere? Who are the people who drive our long-distance lorries, steward our criss-crossing planes, lovingly craft our legacy wines, fish our depleted...

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Civilisations: Collapse and regeneration. Rise, fall and transformation in history - Miroslav Bárta

<p>The present volume is dedicated to the concept of collapse as reflected through different kinds of historical and environmental evidence. A total of twenty-eight in-depth studies provides a heterogenous analyses of the collapse and regeneration processes in societies and civilisations separated in space in time. The individual chapters vary in their locations, ch...

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World Atlas of Wine, 7th Edition

"Immense and beautiful - almost drinkable" -- Midweek, BBC Radio 4 "Simply superb work...buy it if you like wine at all." -- Victoria Moore, The Telegraph "If I owned only one wine book, it would be this one. And this edition, please." -- Andrew Jefford, Decanter Few wine books can be called classic but the first edition of The World Atlas of Wine made publishing history...

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Asterogues

Early Access Game Note: This Early Access game is not complete and may or may not change further. Beat up planets in this cosmic bullet hell shoot-em-up hybrid! Pick your character from a band of outcasts banished to the Asteroid Belt, and take revenge against the Solar System! Cast out by the Sun itself, each rebel must use their unique power along with the items and w...

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Asterogues (PC)

Early Access GameNote: This Early Access game is not complete and may or may not change further.Beat up planets in this cosmic bullet hell shoot-em-up hybrid! Pick your character from a band of outcasts banished to the Asteroid Belt, and take revenge against the Solar System!Cast out by the Sun itself, each rebel must use their unique power along with the items and weapon...

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Why "A" Students Work for "C" Students and Why "B" Students Work for the Government

Kiyosaki expands on his belief that the school system was created to churn out 'Es' / Employees...those "A Students" who read well, memorize well and test well...and not the creative thinkers, visionaries and dreamers -entrepreneurs-in-the-making...those "C Students who grow up to be the innovators and creators of new ideas, businesses, applications and products. The boo...

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Age of Unpeace

A FINANCIAL TIMES ECONOMICS BOOK OF THE YEAR'Compulsively readable... An essential course in geopolitical self-help' - Adam Tooze'Full of fresh - and often surprising - ideas' - Niall Ferguson 'Extraordinary... One of those rare books that defines the terms of our conversation about our times' - Michael Ignatieff We thought connecting the world would bring lasting peace. ...

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History: The Definitive Visual Guide - Dorling Kindersley

Anotace: This lavishly illustrated visual encyclopedia tells the story of our world in depth and detail from the dawn of civilization to the present day.Charting human endeavour from every angle, History chronicles the significant events, ground-breaking ideas, political forces, and technological advances that have shaped our planet. Every historical episode is explored ...

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