Climate Travels : : How Ecotourism Changes Mindsets and Motivates Action / / Michael M. Gunter.
Many accounts of climate change depict disasters striking faraway places: melting ice caps, fearsome hurricanes, all-consuming fires. How can seeing the consequences of human impacts up close help us grasp how global warming affects us and our neighbors? This book is a travelogue that spotlights wha...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION This Land Is Your Land
- I SEE IT YOURSELF Threats to the Home Front
- 1 OUR RISING SEAS
- 2 FLOODING IN THE FORECAST
- 3 DROUGHT AND WILDFIRE
- 4 MORE EXTREME WEATHER
- 5 THE MELT IS ON
- 6 CHANGING HABITATS AND SPECIES DIVERSITY LOSS
- 7 OCEAN TROUBLE
- 8 HEAT AND HEALTH
- II DO IT YOURSELF Action Making a Difference
- 9 HERE COMES THE SUN
- 10 LIVING WITH LESS
- 11 THE WINDS ARE CHANGING
- 12 BUILDING (AND REBUILDING) GREEN
- 13 ADDITIONAL ALTERNATIVE ENERGIES
- 14 RETHINKING OUR CITIES
- 15 LIVING WITH CHANGE
- CONCLUSION Think Local, Act Local
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX