Climate And Weather Collins New Naturalist Library Book 115

Author : John Kington
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 000741109X
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Climate and Weather (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 115) written by John Kington and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviewing the history and causes of climatic change and evaluating regional models, this New Naturalist volume offers an important analysis of climatic variations.

Author : Robert Duck
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748697640
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Edge written by Robert Duck and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The building of railways has had a profound but largely ignored physical impact on Britain's coasts. This book explores the coming of railways to the edge of Britain, the ruthlessness of the companies involved and the transformation of our coasts through

Author : John Kington
Publisher : Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780007395941
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Climate and Weather written by John Kington and published by Collins. This book was released on 2010-10-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviewing the history and causes of climatic change and evaluating regional models, this New Naturalist volume offers an important analysis of climatic variations. Much has happened in our knowledge of climate and weather over the past fifty years. The recording of relations between weather and natural history has continued to be of constant interest, with the weather providing a continual and essential backdrop to natural history accounts. But the significance of this backdrop has been very much widened by our better understanding of climate change and its effects on flora, fauna and biodiversity and also by our increased knowledge of historical climates and weather events. In this timely addition to the New Naturalist Library, leading climatologist John Kington offers a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the diverse climate of the British Isles. Examining the ways in which regional climates evolve from the interplay of meteorological conditions and geography of the British Isles, the author analyses the climatic characteristics and provides a historical overview of changing weather patterns, which is complemented by fascinating and never-before published photographs. Kington reviews the many ways in which people have observed and recorded weather conditions throughout the ages. It is a story based on a rich and varied resource stretching back 2000 years. This approach has allowed climatic trends, anomalies and extremes to be identified over the past two millennia, putting our present experience of weather into striking perspective.

Author : Adam Watson
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007405227
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grouse (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 107) written by Adam Watson and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2010-08-19 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With less than twenty species worldwide and only four British and Irish species, the grouse is surprisingly well-known. Its habitats are diverse and relatively remote – ranging from deep forests, through open moorland, to Scotland’s highest peaks.

Author : Peter Marren
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780007197156
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Naturalists written by Peter Marren and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the most successful, significant and long-running natural history series in the world. Peter Marren covers the illustrious careers of its authors and how each title was conceived and received. He also gives behind-the-scenes details of the also-rans and the books-that-never were.

Author : Marina Alberti
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295806605
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cities That Think like Planets written by Marina Alberti and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As human activity and environmental change come to be increasingly recognized as intertwined phenomena on a rapidly urbanizing planet, the field of urban ecology has risen to offer useful ways of thinking about coupled human and natural systems. On the forefront of this discipline is Marina Alberti, whose innovative work offers a conceptual framework for uncovering fundamental laws that govern the complexity and resilience of cities, which she sees as key to understanding and responding to planetary change and the evolution of Earth. Bridging the fields of urban planning and ecology, Alberti describes a science of cities that work on a planetary scale and that links unpredictable dynamics to the potential for innovation. It is a science that considers interactions - at all scales - between people and built environments and between cities and their larger environments. Cities That Think like Planets advances strategies for planning a future that may look very different from the present, as rapid urbanization could tip the Earth toward abrupt and nonlinear change. Alberti's analyses of the various hybrid ecosystems, such as self-organization, heterogeneity, modularity, multiple equilibria, feedback, and transformation, may help humans participate in guiding the Earth away from inadvertent collapse and toward a new era of planetary co-evolution and resilience.

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Total Pages : 2964 pages
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Author : David Wallace-Wells
Publisher : Tim Duggan Books
ISBN 13 : 052557672X
Total Pages : 384 pages
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Total Pages : 872 pages
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