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12 result(s) for "Brown, Lester R. (Lester Russell), 1934-"
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World on the Edge
In this urgent time, World on the Edge calls out the pivotal environmental issues and how to solve them now. We are in a race between political and natural tipping points. Can we close coal-fired power plants fast enough to save the Greenland ice sheet and avoid catastrophic sea level rise? Can we raise water productivity fast enough to halt the depletion of aquifers and avoid water-driven food shortages? Can we cope with peak water and peak oil at the same time? These are some of the issues Lester R. Brown skilfully distils in World on the Edge. Bringing decades of research and analysis into play, he provides the responses needed to reclaim our future.
earth policy reader
In this study, the award-winning environmental analyst Lester Brown and his colleagues have charted progress in building the eco-economy - an economy in harmony with the Earth's ecosystems, not undermining them. This edition of the biennial reader highlights 12 key trends, from population growing by 80 million annually, to ice melting, to the boom in use of solar cells. It explains, for example, why wind-generated electricity is emerging as the foundation of the new post-fossil fuel energy economy. It also specifically investigates China's desertification problem, the issues surrounding food production, and the challenge of controlling climate change. Drawing on research and analysis by the Earth Policy Institute, the reader monitors the shift from the old economy to the new.
من أجل الإنسان : استراتيجية لتثبيت عدد سكان العالم
يقدم المؤلف الحقائق الرئيسية حول الزيادة الكبيرة للسكان خلال القرن الحالي والضغوط التي تمارسها هذه الكثافة السكانية على موارد الأرض خاصة مع ارتفاع مستوى المعيشة في كثير من البلاد، ويناقش هذا الكتاب السياسات السكانية البناءة في بعض الدول والبرامج الاقتصادية والاجتماعية التي تحث على تكوين أسر صغيرة، ويعتقد المؤلف أنه ينبغي تخطيط سياسة عالمية خاصة بالسكان ... وموضوعات أخرى.
أجمل تاريخ للأرض
لماذا كوكب الأرض ؟ ما الذي جعل تلك الكتلة الصخرية التي لم يكن لها شأن يذكر في هذا الكون الشاسع تنحو نحو هذا المصير الخارق ؟ كيف إستحالت شيئا فشيئا إلى كوكب يزخر بالتحولات ويحمل في رحمه ظاهرة فريدة من نوعها هي الحياة على أنواعها ؟ وما هي طبيعة الشكل الذي ستكون عليه الأرض في المستقبل ؟. \"أجمل تاريخ للأرض\" كتاب يسرد قصة هذا الكوكب الأزرق على ضوء الإكتشافات العلمية الأخيرة، بدءا من طفولته العنيفة في الفضاء، مرورا بمرحلة نضجه التي وهبته الحياة والتوازن، وإنتهاء بمستقبله الغامض الذي هو في الوقت نفسه مستقبلنا نحن البشر : ثلاثة فصول من مغامرة مثيرة قد تتحول إلى مأساة إذا لم يتحمل الجنس البشري مسؤولية مصيره، ولكن بشرط أن لا يتأخر كثيرا !...
Outgrowing the earth : the food security challenge in an age of falling water tables and rising temperatures
Ever since 9/11, many have considered al Queda to be the leading threat to global security, but falling water tables in countries that contain more than half the world's people and rising temperatures worldwide pose a far more serious threat. Spreading water shortages and crop-withering heat waves are shrinking grain harvests in more and more countries, making it difficult for the world's farmers to feed 70 million more people each year. The risk is that tightening food supplies could drive up food prices, destabilizing governments in low-income grain-importing countries and disrupting global economic progress. Future security, Brown says, now depends on raising water productivity, stabilizing climate by moving beyond fossil fuels, and stabilizing population by filling the family planning gap and educating young people everywhere.