240 pages, 230 x 150 mm
Publisher:
CSIRO PUBLISHING
Readable, relevant and fascinating, Living in a Warmer World examines how our changing climate will affect our everyday lives through access to food, water and even land, and how this will also impact on our health. More importantly, it looks at what science is doing to help us plan for and adapt to our future. This book looks beyond the debate over how and why, and describes what is actually happening as our world gets warmer.
Jim Salinger brings together some of the world's leading scientists to describe how a hotter planet is affecting our food supplies, fisheries and agriculture, access to fresh water and public health. From these specifics, a clearer picture emerges of how our planet is changing and how this will affect our lives.
Brings together leading scientists and researchers to describe how a hotter planet is impacting on our food supplies, fisheries and agriculture, access to fresh water and our health, and, more importantly, what we are doing to plan for and adapt to our future
Foreword PART I: WHAT IS NATURE TELLLING US?
1 Birds
2 Corals
3 Insects PART II: WATER
4 Rainfall and water cycle, present and future
5 Glaciers
6 Desertification
7 Sea levels
8 Fresh water for urban populations PART III: FOOD
9 Wheat
10 Pastures and rangelands
11 Viticulture
12 Livestock
13 Fisheries PART IV: HEALTH
14 Heat waves and health
15 Climate and infectious diseases, present and future OUR FUTURE IN A WARMER WORLD
17 Confidence, consensus and the ucertainty cops — tackling risk-management in climate change
18 Ethical Issues
Further reading and resources
Organisations
Glossary
Index
A general audience looking for information on the bigger picture around climate change and its human impacts.
Jim Salinger CRSNZ has been involved for 35 years in research and analysis of climate change and variability and its impacts. He leads an international team examining the effects of climate change and its fluctuations on agriculture and fisheries, and agriculture on climate, and in 2012 was the Lorrey Lokey Visiting Professor, Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. Jim is a prolific communicator and has received several awards, including the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, to which he was a contributor, and other honours for the understanding of climate change.
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