Meltdown : climate change, natural disasters, and other catastrophes--fears and concerns of the future
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書誌事項
Meltdown : climate change, natural disasters, and other catastrophes--fears and concerns of the future
(Natural disaster research, prediction and mitigation series)
Nova Science Publishers, c2009
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注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Why the word Meltdown in the title of the book? With the world heating up, bush fires wiping out whole communities, money markets and economic systems collapsing, mining operations replacing quality farming land, factory chemicals poisoning the waterways, the natural environment being destroyed, and whole societies being displaced, we are indeed witnessing a meltdown. People are now very concerned and some are afraid for their futures. Does the human race, or at least sections of the populations in different countries of the world hold beliefs about, and attitudes towards, social and ecological issues such as climate change and futurist scenarios that are apocalyptic? In a completely different vein, are they prepared to take action about their environmentally unfriendly behaviours? Are all the natural disasters that have beset the world in the past decade an indicator that the world is about to end, particularly coupled with famine, war and pestilence, and lately the breakdown in the global economic systems, all having been prophesised by different seers and religious leaders? This book is timely and in some ways timeless; the issues discussed within its pages are matters that are of interest to all people across the world and really across time. In this book, there are a number of chapters that focus on the theoretical positions and cognition about fears and concerns for the future, in different segments of the world's population. There are other chapters that describe nature's situation as it is today, with water shortages, threats of sea-level rise, loss of forests, habitats and wildlife in various parts of the globe. These chapters demonstrate the complexities involved in attempting to understand which aspects relate to climate change, which aspects are distinct from climate change, and indeed which aspects were already in existence, but have been, and will be, exacerbated by climate change influences. The four basic elements of life - fire, water, earth and air - are covered by contributions on bush fires, floods, drought, water shortages, and air pollution.
目次
- Preface
- Overview: Should We Be Worried About the Future?
- Climate Change As Challenge: Can Human Resilience and Resourcefulness Provide Solutions?
- Exploring the Psychological Aspects of Risks, Fears and Concerns about Climate Change
- Providing Scaffolding for Students in Light of Concerns over Climate Change: An Educational Perspective
- Do Global Concerns Affect Dream Content more than Personal Concerns?
- Ecological Crises - A Psychological Perspective and the Path to Transformation
- The Physical and Psychological Challenges of Environmental Threats and Climate Change
- Squeezing Relationships Dry: The Impact of Drought on Australian Farmers' Intimate Relationships
- How Might the Health Effects of Air Pollution Change when The Planet Gets Warmer?
- Can We Anticipate More Heatwaves, Wildfires and Deluges?
- Responses of Freshwater Turtles to Drought: The Past, Present and Implications for Future Climate Change in Australia
- Can Understanding Backwater Effects Help us to Prepare for and Manage Deluges?
- Bushfire Disaster Preparedness: A Rural Survey
- Adapting to Sea-Level Rise: Lessons for the Future from Redcliffe, Australia
- Climate Change Impacts and Planning in Africa
- Drought in Rural Areas: Not Just the Absence of Water
- The South East Queensland Water Grid -- Using the Drought to Engineer the Market
- Climate Change and Globalisation
- Serious Fears across Cultures about the Collapse of the World Order
- Three Economic Tsunamis: Should we have seen them coming? A Boundary Rider's Perspective
- A Third Watershed: The Capacity to Adapt and Solve Future Dilemmas Confronting our Planet
- It's Now or Never: The Importance in Raising Ecological Conscious Awareness of The World's Climate Change
- Index.
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