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Author : Shagoon Tabin
Publisher : APH Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Global warming
ISBN : 8131303969
Author : David J. Jakubiak
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781448849857
Offers a simple explanation of the environmental issue of ozone loss, and explores some possible and proven ways to address the problems it causes.
Author : Stephen O. Andersen,K. Madhava Sarma
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781849772266
In the 1970s the world became aware of a huge danger: the destruction of the stratospheric ozone layer by CFCs escaping into the atmosphere, and the damage this could do to human health and the food chain. So great was the threat that by 1987 the UN had succeeded in coordinating an international treaty to phase out emissions; which, over the following 15 years has been implemented. It has been hailed as an outstanding success. It needed the participation of all the parties: governments, industry, scientists, campaigners, NGOs and the media, and is a model for future treaties. This volume provides the authoritative and comprehensive history of the whole process from the earliest warning signs to the present. It is an invaluable record for all those involved and a necessary reference for future negotiations to a wide range of scholars, students and professionals.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Air
ISBN : UCR:31210012674246
Author : Stephen O. Andersen,Kristen N. Taddonio,K. Madhava Sarma
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849772846
'Imagine the pride of earning the Nobel Prize for warning that CFCs were destroying the ozone layer. Then imagine that citizens, policymakers, and business executives heeded the warning and transformed markets to protect the earth. This book is the story of why we can all be optimistic about the future if we are willing to be brave and dedicated world citizens.' MARIO MOLINA, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry and Professor, University of California This book tells how the Montreal Protocol, the most successful global environmental agreement so far, stimulated the development and worldwide transfer of technologies to protect the ozone layer.Technology transfer is the crux of the 230 international environmental treaties and is essential to fighting climate change. While debate rages about obstacles to technology transfer, until now there has been no comprehensive assessment of what actually works to remove the obstacles. The authors, leaders in the field, assess over 1000 technology transfer projects funded under the Montreal Protocol s Multilateral Fund and the Global Environment Facility, and identify lessons that can be applied to technology transfer for climate change."
Author : Edward A. Parson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003-03-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780190288716
This book is the first comprehensive history of international efforts to protect the ozone layer, the greatest success yet achieved in managing human impacts on the global environment. Its arguments about how this success was achieved are both theoretically novel and of great significance for the management of other global problems, particularly global climate change. The book provides an account of the ozone-depletion issues from the first attempts to develop international action in the 1970s to the mature functioning of the present international regime. It examines the parallel developments of politics and negotiations, scientific understanding and controversy, technological progress, and industry strategy that shaped the issue's development and its effective management. In addition, the book offers important new insights into how the interactions among these domains influenced the formation and adaptation of the ozone regime. Addressing the initial formation of the regime, the book argues that authoritative scientific assessments were crucial in constraining policy debates and shaping negotiated agreements. Assessments gave scientific claims an ability to change policy actors' behavior that the claims themselves, however well known and verified, lacked. Concerning subsequent adaptation of the regime, the book identifies a series of feedbacks between the periodic revision of chemical controls and the strategic responses of affected industries, which drove rapid application of new approaches to reduce ozone-depleting chemicals. These feedbacks, promoted by the regime's novel technology assessment process, allowed worldwide use of the chemicals to decline further and faster than even the boldest predictions, by nearly 95 percent within ten years.
Author : David J. Jakubiak
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781448853724
While many people have heard about the gaping hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica, this seasonal hole is only one part of ozone depletion. There are signs that this hole may be shrinking as a result of recent efforts to limit certain kinds of pollution. More troubling is the overall depletion scientists have detected worldwide. Readers will find no gaps or holes in this succinct and straightforward discussion of the issue.
Author : Arjun Makhijani,Kevin Gurney
Publisher : Mit Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1995-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 0262519895
There is a widely held misconception that the problem of ozone depletion in the upper atmosphere has been solved. In fact, while CFC production has been reduced in many places, the ongoing emissions of chemicals and the production of other long-lived ozone-depleting substances mean a decade will pass before the levels of ozone-depleting chlorine in the earth's atmosphere being to decline. As a result, serious ozone depletion above the southern pole and elsewhere is expected to continue for decades, posing a severe threat to human health and to ecosystems.In this comprehensive overview, Makhijani and Gurney detail the most current knowledge about stratospheric ozone depletion. More than a review of the evolution of the ozone problem, Mending the Ozone Hole provides an objective and stimulating look at current debates surrounding the research, the technology development, and the policy-making aimed at eliminating ozone-depleting substances.The book begins by clearly delineating the current status of stratospheric ozone loss and its epidemiological and ecological consequences -- including DNA damage, effects on the human immune system, skin cancer, the human eye, plant and aquatic life, and potential impacts of persistent severe ozone depletion. It then takes up the many sources of emissions of ozone-depleting compounds and of the alternative technologies that might reasonably replace them. This is followed by an examination of national and international policy development and industry responses, projections on the levels of ozone-depleting chlorine, assessments of various ozone-protection measures, and a consideration of the context in which policy is made. Finally, the research findings are summarized and specific recommendations for protecting the ozone layer are offered
Author : Elizabeth Cook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Science
ISBN : UCR:31210012060834
This report explores a profoundly important question: can we alter deeply embedded economic habits to forestall damaging Earth's atmosphere? Ten case studies involving public and private sector organizations document how and why many industries were able to develop CFC alternatives.
Author : United Nations Environment Programme
Publisher : United Nations Publications
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Atmospheric chemistry
ISBN : 9789280717242
Author : Rolf Müller (physicien.)
Publisher : Royal Society of Chemistry
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781849730020
In recent years, several new concepts have emerged in the field of stratospheric ozone depletion, creating a need for a concise in-depth publication covering the ozone-climate issue. This monograph fills that void in the literature and gives detailed treatment of recent advances in the field of stratospheric ozone depletion. It puts particular emphasis on the coupling between changes in the ozone layer and atmospheric change caused by a changing climate. The book, written by leading experts in the field, brings the reader the most recent research in this area and fills the gap between advanced textbooks and assessments.
Author : Sari Kovats,Bettina Menne,Anthony McMichael,Roberto Bertollini,Colin Soskolne
Publisher : WHO Regional Office Europe
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789289013550
A balanced assessment based on currently available scientific knowledge of the effects that climate change may have on the environment in Europe and the health of its populations. Written in non-technical language the book responds to growing public and political concern about the consequences of such widely publicized phenomena as global warming and stratospheric ozone depletion. The book also responds to evidence that recent warming trends in Europe have already affected health. The book opens with a brief explanation of the causes of climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion followed by an overview of recent European and global initiatives aimed at monitoring trends and assessing their impact on health. The first main chapter on climate change in Europe summarizes currently documented trends and provides a scenario of possible changes throughout the rest of this century. The second and most extensive chapter reviews scientific evidence on specific health consequences. These include effects related to increased episodes of thermal stress and air pollution; changes in foodborne water-related vector-borne and rodent-borne diseases; mortality from floods and other weather extremes; and changes in the production of aeroallergens associated with respiratory disorders including asthma. Chapter three considers health effects linked to stratospheric ozone depletion giving particular attention to adverse effects on the eye and immune system and skin cancer. The remaining chapters discuss health effects expected in the next decade and outline actions urgently needed in the areas of policy monitoring and surveillance and research.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : UNEP/Earthprint
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Air
ISBN : 9280727702
Author : Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment,Federal Provincial Working Group on Controls Harmonization (Ozone-depleting Substances) (Canada)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Chlorofluorocarbons
ISBN : 0189525975
Author : Arthur Philip Cracknell,Costas Varotsos
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642103346
The destruction of the ozone layer, together with global warming, is one of the hot environmental topics of today. This book examines the effect of human activities on atmospheric ozone, namely the increase of tropospheric ozone and the general diminution of stratospheric ozone and the production of the Antarctic ozone hole. Also discussed is the role of remote sensing techniques in the understanding of the effects of human activities on atmospheric ozone as well as in the development of social and political awareness of the damage to the ozone layer by man-made chemicals, principally CFCs. This led to the formulation and ratification in 1989 of the Montreal Protocol on controlling/banning the manufacture and use of chemicals that damage the ozone layer. Since then, remote sensing has played a key role in monitoring atmospheric ozone concentration and determining the success of the Montreal Protocol in protecting the ozone layer from further damage. In this book, the renowned authors discuss the sophisticated instruments that have been launched into space to study not only ozone but also other trace gases in the atmosphere, some of which play a key role in the generation and destruction of ozone in the atmosphere. Professors Cracknell and Varotsos also examine the satellite-flown instruments which are involved in monitoring the absorption of solar ultraviolet light in the atmosphere in relation both to the generation and destruction of ozone and consequently to human health. This scholarly book, written by the foremost experts in the field, looks at remote sensing and its employment in the various aspects of ozone science. It is widely acknowledged that global warming, due to anthropogenic greenhouse gases emissions, represents a threat to the sustainability of human life on Earth. However, many other threats are potentially just as serious, including atmospheric pollution, ozone depletion, water pollution, the degradation of agricultural land, deforestation, the depletion of the world's mineral resources and population growth.