The Climate Nexus

Water, Food, Energy and Biodiversity

von Robert William Sandford, Deborah Harford, Jon O'Riordan

168 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Explains how water, food, energy and biodiversity form an interconnected system increasingly stressed by climate disruption, population growth and land-use change.The Climate Nexus examines four essentials of human and ecological well-being that are often governed separately even though decisions affecting one inevitably reshape the others. Water supports food and energy systems, energy choices affect water and land, and all three depend on healthy ecosystems and biodiversity.Robert William Sandford considers how rising demand, changing hydro-climatic conditions, pollution and development intensify pressure across this nexus. Floods, droughts, storms, pest outbreaks and extreme heat make the consequences harder to manage through policies built around a single resource or sector.The book argues for more integrated approaches to resource security that account for economic needs, equity, social justice and environmental limits together. Written for general readers and policy audiences, it provides a framework for understanding why climate, water, food, energy and biodiversity cannot be treated as separate problems.

• ISBN: 9781771601429
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.01.2016
• Größe: 180 x 114 mm
• Verlag: Heritage Group Distribution