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The Human Planet

Simon L. Lewis,Mark A. Maslin

Author : Simon L. Lewis,Mark A. Maslin
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780300243031

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An exploration of the Anthropocene and “a relentless reckoning of how we, as a species, got ourselves into the mess we’re in today” (The Wall Street Journal). Meteorites, mega-volcanoes, and plate tectonics—the old forces of nature—have transformed Earth for millions of years. They are now joined by a new geological force—humans. Our actions have driven Earth into a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. For the first time in our home planet's 4.5-billion-year history a single species is increasingly dictating Earth’s future. To some the Anthropocene symbolizes a future of superlative control of our environment. To others it is the height of hubris, the illusion of our mastery over nature. Whatever your view, just below the surface of this odd-sounding scientific word—the Anthropocene—is a heady mix of science, philosophy, history, and politics linked to our deepest fears and utopian visions. Tracing our environmental impacts through time, scientists Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin reveal a new view of human history and a new outlook for the future of humanity in the unstable world we have created.

The Human Planet

George Steinmetz,Andrew Revkin

Author : George Steinmetz,Andrew Revkin
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781683358800

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A dynamic aerial exploration of our changing planet, published on the 50th anniversary of Earth Day The Human Planet is a sweeping visual chronicle of the Earth today from a photographer who has circled the globe to report on such urgent issues as climate change, sustainable agriculture, and the ever-expanding human footprint. George Steinmetz is at home on every continent, documenting both untrammeled nature and the human project that relentlessly redesigns the planet in its quest to build shelter, grow food, generate energy, and create beauty through art and architecture. In his images, accompanied by authoritative text by renowned science writer Andrew Revkin, we are encountering the dramatic and perplexing new face of our ancient home.

Human Planet

Dale Templar,Brian Leith

Author : Dale Templar,Brian Leith
Publisher : Ebury Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 184607956X

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Human Planet is the first natural history documentary series to turn the camera on ourselves, the human species. Taking the same approach as Planet Earth, it explains how human beings have learnt to live on every habitat, from our origins in the Jungle to our domination of Grasslands to the Desert, Ocean, Rivers, the creation of our own environment, Urban, and the challenges of the Arctic mountains.

A Life on Our Planet

Sir David Attenborough

Author : Sir David Attenborough
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781538720004

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*Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Best Science & Technology Book of the Year* In this scientifically informed account of the changes occurring in the world over the last century, award-winning broadcaster and natural historian shares a lifetime of wisdom and a hopeful vision for the future. See the world. Then make it better. I am 93. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary. As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us, barely noticeable from day to day -- the loss of our planet's wild places, its biodiversity. I have been witness to this decline. A Life on Our Planet is my witness statement, and my vision for the future. It is the story of how we came to make this, our greatest mistake -- and how, if we act now, we can yet put it right. We have one final chance to create the perfect home for ourselves and restore the wonderful world we inherited. All we need is the will to do so.

Ecosystems and Human Well-Being

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

Author : Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-14
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1559633867

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Ecosystems and Human Well-Being by Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Pdf

Our Human Planet summarizes the findings of the four working groups and serves as a reference guide to the four main volumes in the MA series. It presents the key findings of each of the working groups, providing an overview of the framework used by the assessment, and will serve as a guide for assessment, planning, and management for the future.

How To Save Our Planet

Mark A. Maslin

Author : Mark A. Maslin
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780241472538

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'Punchy and to the point. No beating around the bush. This brilliant book contains all the information we need to have in our back pocket in order to move forward' Christiana Figueres, Former Executive Secretary UN Climate Change Convention 'Amazing book' Chris Evans, Virgin Radio Breakfast Show 'Everyone should have this book' Rick Edwards, BBC Radio 5 Live 'A timely and important book, not only laying out the facts...but suggesting real solutions to the challenges facing us' Professor Alice Roberts, Anatomist, Professor of Public Engagement in Science, University of Birmingham _________________________ How can we save our planet and survive the 21st century? How can you argue with deniers? How can we create positive change in the midst of the climate crisis? Professor Mark Maslin has the key facts that we need to protect our future. Global awareness of climate change is growing rapidly. Science has proven that our planet and species are facing a massive environmental crisis. How to Save Our Planet is a call to action, guaranteed to equip everyone with the knowledge needed to make change. Be under no illusion the challenges of the twenty-first century are immense. We need to deal with: climate change, environmental destruction, global poverty and ensure everyone's security. We have the technology. We have the resources. We have the money. We have the scientists, the entrepreneurs and the innovators. We lack the politics and policies to make your vision of a better world happen. So we need a plan to save our planet... How to Save Our Planet is your handbook of how we together can save our precious planet. From the history of our planet and species, to the potential of individuals and our power to create a better future, Maslin inspires optimism in these bleak times. We stand at the precipice. The future of our planet is in our hands. It's time to face the facts and save our planet from, and for, ourselves. _________________________ 'A handbook of clearly established, authoritative facts and figures about the terrible toll we as humans have taken of our planet, plus ways in which we can lessen the impact. For laypeople like me, who can see what is happening but haven't always got the precise statistics to hand, it's hugely valuable' John Simpson CBE, BBC World Affairs Editor, Broadcaster, Author & Columnist 'Saving the world is no small thing, but picking up this book's a good start' Paris Lees, Contributing Editor at British Vogue, campaigner 'I love it. My kids love it' Chris Evans, Virgin Radio Breakfast Show 'A no-nonsense crib sheet on the state of the world and how to help it' The I Newspaper

World Without Us

Alan Weisman

Author : Alan Weisman
Publisher : HarperCollins Canada
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443400084

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Most books about the environment build on dire threats warning of the possible extinction of humanity. Alan Weisman avoids frightening off readers by disarmingly wiping out our species in the first few pages of this remarkable book. He then continues with an astounding depiction of how Earth will fare once we’re no longer around. The World Without Us is a one-of-a-kind book that sweeps through time from the moment of humanity’s future extinction to millions of years into the future. Drawing on interviews with experts and on real examples of places in the world that have already been abandoned by humans—Chernobyl, the Korean DMZ and an ancient Polish forest—Weisman shows both the shocking impact we’ve had on our planet and how impermanent our footprint actually is.

The Human Planet

Simon L. Lewis,Mark A. Maslin

Author : Simon L. Lewis,Mark A. Maslin
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780241280904

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Meteorites, methane, mega-volcanoes and now human beings; the old forces of nature that transformed Earth many millions of years ago are joined by another: us. Our actions have driven Earth into a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. For the first time in our home planet's 4.5-billion year history a single species is dictating Earth's future. To some the Anthropocene symbolises a future of superlative control of our environment. To others it is the height of hubris, the illusion of our mastery over nature. Whatever your view, just below the surface of this odd-sounding scientific word, the Anthropocene, is a heady mix of science, philosophy, religion and politics linked to our deepest fears and utopian visions. Tracing our environmental impact through time to reveal when humans began to dominate Earth, Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin show what the new epoch means for the future of humanity, the planet and life itself.

The Uninhabitable Earth

David Wallace-Wells

Author : David Wallace-Wells
Publisher : Tim Duggan Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780525576723

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon.”—Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • The New York Times Book Review • Time • NPR • The Economist • The Paris Review • Toronto Star • GQ • The Times Literary Supplement • The New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible—food shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars and economic devastation. An “epoch-defining book” (The Guardian) and “this generation’s Silent Spring” (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable Earth is both a travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through it—the ways that warming promises to transform global politics, the meaning of technology and nature in the modern world, the sustainability of capitalism and the trajectory of human progress. The Uninhabitable Earth is also an impassioned call to action. For just as the world was brought to the brink of catastrophe within the span of a lifetime, the responsibility to avoid it now belongs to a single generation—today’s. LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD “The Uninhabitable Earth is the most terrifying book I have ever read. Its subject is climate change, and its method is scientific, but its mode is Old Testament. The book is a meticulously documented, white-knuckled tour through the cascading catastrophes that will soon engulf our warming planet.”—Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times “Riveting. . . . Some readers will find Mr. Wallace-Wells’s outline of possible futures alarmist. He is indeed alarmed. You should be, too.”—The Economist “Potent and evocative. . . . Wallace-Wells has resolved to offer something other than the standard narrative of climate change. . . . He avoids the ‘eerily banal language of climatology’ in favor of lush, rolling prose.”—Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times “The book has potential to be this generation’s Silent Spring.”—The Washington Post “The Uninhabitable Earth, which has become a best seller, taps into the underlying emotion of the day: fear. . . . I encourage people to read this book.”—Alan Weisman, The New York Review of Books

Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing,Nils Bubandt,Elaine Gan,Heather Anne Swanson

Author : Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing,Nils Bubandt,Elaine Gan,Heather Anne Swanson
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781452954493

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Living on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. This timely anthology calls on twenty eminent humanists and scientists to revitalize curiosity, observation, and transdisciplinary conversation about life on earth. As human-induced environmental change threatens multispecies livability, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet puts forward a bold proposal: entangled histories, situated narratives, and thick descriptions offer urgent “arts of living.” Included are essays by scholars in anthropology, ecology, science studies, art, literature, and bioinformatics who posit critical and creative tools for collaborative survival in a more-than-human Anthropocene. The essays are organized around two key figures that also serve as the publication’s two openings: Ghosts, or landscapes haunted by the violences of modernity; and Monsters, or interspecies and intraspecies sociality. Ghosts and Monsters are tentacular, windy, and arboreal arts that invite readers to encounter ants, lichen, rocks, electrons, flying foxes, salmon, chestnut trees, mud volcanoes, border zones, graves, radioactive waste—in short, the wonders and terrors of an unintended epoch. Contributors: Karen Barad, U of California, Santa Cruz; Kate Brown, U of Maryland, Baltimore; Carla Freccero, U of California, Santa Cruz; Peter Funch, Aarhus U; Scott F. Gilbert, Swarthmore College; Deborah M. Gordon, Stanford U; Donna J. Haraway, U of California, Santa Cruz; Andreas Hejnol, U of Bergen, Norway; Ursula K. Le Guin; Marianne Elisabeth Lien, U of Oslo; Andrew Mathews, U of California, Santa Cruz; Margaret McFall-Ngai, U of Hawaii, Manoa; Ingrid M. Parker, U of California, Santa Cruz; Mary Louise Pratt, NYU; Anne Pringle, U of Wisconsin, Madison; Deborah Bird Rose, U of New South Wales, Sydney; Dorion Sagan; Lesley Stern, U of California, San Diego; Jens-Christian Svenning, Aarhus U.

Planetary Health

Samuel Myers,Howard Frumkin

Author : Samuel Myers,Howard Frumkin
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610919661

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Human health depends on the health of the planet. Earth’s natural systems—the air, the water, the biodiversity, the climate—are our life support systems. Yet climate change, biodiversity loss, scarcity of land and freshwater, pollution and other threats are degrading these systems. The emerging field of planetary health aims to understand how these changes threaten our health and how to protect ourselves and the rest of the biosphere. Planetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves provides a readable introduction to this new paradigm. With an interdisciplinary approach, the book addresses a wide range of health impacts felt in the Anthropocene, including food and nutrition, infectious disease, non-communicable disease, dislocation and conflict, and mental health. It also presents strategies to combat environmental changes and its ill-effects, such as controlling toxic exposures, investing in clean energy, improving urban design, and more. Chapters are authored by widely recognized experts. The result is a comprehensive and optimistic overview of a growing field that is being adopted by researchers and universities around the world. Students of public health will gain a solid grounding in the new challenges their profession must confront, while those in the environmental sciences, agriculture, the design professions, and other fields will become familiar with the human consequences of planetary changes. Understanding how our changing environment affects our health is increasingly critical to a variety of disciplines and professions. Planetary Health is the definitive guide to this vital field.

One Planet, One Health

Walton, Merrilyn,Aginam, Obijiofor,Alders, Robyn,Arabena, Kerry,Ashleigh, Conor,Bagnol, Brigitte,Black, Kirsten,Braaten, Yngve,Coogan, Sean,Dawson, Angus,Degeling, Chris,Fenwick, Stanley,Gilbert, Gwendolyn,Guest, David,Hill-Cawthorne, Grant,Hogerwerf, Lenny,Jeggo, Martyn,Jonas, Tammi,Kock, Richard,Hall, Jess,Laven, Anna,Mackenzie, John,Marais, Ben,McMahon, Peter,Massey, Peter,Memmott, Paul,Mor, Siobhan,Nuryartono, Nunung,Raubenheimer, David,Stellmach, Darryl,Vinning, Grant,Wallace, Robert,Wiethoelter, Anke

Author : Walton, Merrilyn,Aginam, Obijiofor,Alders, Robyn,Arabena, Kerry,Ashleigh, Conor,Bagnol, Brigitte,Black, Kirsten,Braaten, Yngve,Coogan, Sean,Dawson, Angus,Degeling, Chris,Fenwick, Stanley,Gilbert, Gwendolyn,Guest, David,Hill-Cawthorne, Grant,Hogerwerf, Lenny,Jeggo, Martyn,Jonas, Tammi,Kock, Richard,Hall, Jess,Laven, Anna,Mackenzie, John,Marais, Ben,McMahon, Peter,Massey, Peter,Memmott, Paul,Mor, Siobhan,Nuryartono, Nunung,Raubenheimer, David,Stellmach, Darryl,Vinning, Grant,Wallace, Robert,Wiethoelter, Anke
Publisher : Sydney University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781743325377

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One Planet, One Health by Walton, Merrilyn,Aginam, Obijiofor,Alders, Robyn,Arabena, Kerry,Ashleigh, Conor,Bagnol, Brigitte,Black, Kirsten,Braaten, Yngve,Coogan, Sean,Dawson, Angus,Degeling, Chris,Fenwick, Stanley,Gilbert, Gwendolyn,Guest, David,Hill-Cawthorne, Grant,Hogerwerf, Lenny,Jeggo, Martyn,Jonas, Tammi,Kock, Richard,Hall, Jess,Laven, Anna,Mackenzie, John,Marais, Ben,McMahon, Peter,Massey, Peter,Memmott, Paul,Mor, Siobhan,Nuryartono, Nunung,Raubenheimer, David,Stellmach, Darryl,Vinning, Grant,Wallace, Robert,Wiethoelter, Anke Pdf

One Planet, One Health provides a multidisciplinary reflection on the state of our planet, human and animal health, as well as the critical effects of climate change on the environment and on people. Climate change is already affecting many poor communities and traditional aid programs have achieved relatively small gains. Going beyond the narrow disciplinary lens and an exclusive focus on human health, a planetary health approach puts the ecosystem at the centre. The contributors to One Planet, One Health argue that maintaining and restoring ecosystem resilience should be a core priority, carried out in partnership with local communities. One Planet, One Health offers an integrated approach to improving the health of the planet and its inhabitants. With chapters on ethics, research and governance, as well as case studies of government and international aid-agency responses to illustrate successes and failures, the book aims to help scholars, governments and non-governmental organisations understand the benefits of focusing on the interdependence of human and animal health, food, water security and land care.

The Anthropocene Reviewed

John Green

Author : John Green
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780525555223

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“Masterful. The Anthropocene Reviewed is a beautiful, timely book about the human condition—and a timeless reminder to pay attention to your attention.” —Adam Grant, #1 bestselling author of Think Again and host of the podcast Re:Thinking Instant #1 bestseller! A deeply moving collection of personal essays from John Green, the author of The Fault in Our Stars and Turtles All the Way Down. “Gloriously personal and life-affirming. The perfect book for right now.” —People “Essential to the human conversation.” —Library Journal, starred review The Anthropocene is the current geologic age, in which humans have profoundly reshaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays, bestselling author John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale—from the QWERTY keyboard and sunsets to Canada geese and Penguins of Madagascar. Funny, complex, and rich with detail, the reviews chart the contradictions of contemporary humanity. John Green’s gift for storytelling shines throughout this masterful collection. The Anthropocene Reviewed is an open-hearted exploration of the paths we forge and an unironic celebration of falling in love with the world.

Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life

Edward O. Wilson

Author : Edward O. Wilson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781631490835

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Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life by Edward O. Wilson Pdf

"An audacious and concrete proposal…Half-Earth completes the 86-year-old Wilson’s valedictory trilogy on the human animal and our place on the planet." —Jedediah Purdy, New Republic In his most urgent book to date, Pulitzer Prize–winning author and world-renowned biologist Edward O. Wilson states that in order to stave off the mass extinction of species, including our own, we must move swiftly to preserve the biodiversity of our planet. In this "visionary blueprint for saving the planet" (Stephen Greenblatt), Half-Earth argues that the situation facing us is too large to be solved piecemeal and proposes a solution commensurate with the magnitude of the problem: dedicate fully half the surface of the Earth to nature. Identifying actual regions of the planet that can still be reclaimed—such as the California redwood forest, the Amazon River basin, and grasslands of the Serengeti, among others—Wilson puts aside the prevailing pessimism of our times and "speaks with a humane eloquence which calls to us all" (Oliver Sacks).

Earth in Human Hands

David Grinspoon

Author : David Grinspoon
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781455589135

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NASA Astrobiologist and renowned scientist Dr. David Grinspoon brings readers an optimistic message about humanity's future in the face of climate change. For the first time in Earth's history, our planet is experiencing a confluence of rapidly accelerating changes prompted by one species: humans. Climate change is only the most visible of the modifications we've made--up until this point, inadvertently--to the planet. And our current behavior threatens not only our own future but that of countless other creatures. By comparing Earth's story to those of other planets, astrobiologist David Grinspoon shows what a strange and novel development it is for a species to evolve to build machines, and ultimately, global societies with world-shaping influence. Without minimizing the challenges of the next century, Grinspoon suggests that our present moment is not only one of peril, but also great potential, especially when viewed from a 10,000-year perspective. Our species has surmounted the threat of extinction before, thanks to our innate ingenuity and ability to adapt, and there's every reason to believe we can do so again. Our challenge now is to awaken to our role as a force of planetary change, and to grow into this task. We must become graceful planetary engineers, conscious shapers of our environment and caretakers of Earth's biosphere. This is a perspective that begs us to ask not just what future do we want to avoid, but what do we seek to build? What kind of world do we want? Are humans the worst thing or the best thing to ever happen to our planet? Today we stand at a pivotal juncture, and the answer will depend on the choices we make.

The Human Planet

The Human Planet by Simon L. Lewis,Mark A. Maslin Pdf

The Human Planet by George Steinmetz,Andrew Revkin Pdf

Human Planet by Dale Templar,Brian Leith Pdf

A Life on Our Planet by Sir David Attenborough Pdf

Ecosystems and Human Well-Being by Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Pdf

How To Save Our Planet by Mark A. Maslin Pdf

World Without Us by Alan Weisman Pdf

The Human Planet by Simon L. Lewis,Mark A. Maslin Pdf

The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells Pdf

Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing,Nils Bubandt,Elaine Gan,Heather Anne Swanson Pdf

Planetary Health by Samuel Myers,Howard Frumkin Pdf

The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green Pdf

Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life by Edward O. Wilson Pdf

Earth in Human Hands by David Grinspoon Pdf

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