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Beschreibung
This book identifies the positive tipping points that can help us avoid the worst and shows how we can all play a part in triggering positive tipping points that accelerate us out of the climate crisis.
This book identifies the positive tipping points that can help us avoid the worst and shows how we can all play a part in triggering positive tipping points that accelerate us out of the climate crisis.
Über den Autor
Professor Tim Lenton OBE is Chair in Climate Change and Earth System Science at the University of Exeter, where he founded the Global Systems Institute. His research focuses on understanding how life has transformed the Earth system over the past 4 billion years, and how humans are transforming it now. He uses computer models to simulate the climate and biogeochemical cycles. Tim is renowned for his work in identifying climate tipping points, which informed the setting of the 'well below 2°C' climate target. He is passionate about the opportunities for positive tipping points in human activities to accelerate action towards global sustainability.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Part I - Urgency

  • 1: Accelerating change

  • 2: Lean back gently

  • 3: Past tipping points

  • 4: On thin ice

  • 5: Losing our niche

  • 6: Averting disaster

  • Part II - Transformation

  • 7: Aunt Lilian

  • 8: The Greta effect

  • 9: That A-ha moment

  • 10: A quiet revolution

  • 11: Pedal to the metal

  • 12: Land ahoy

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Importe, Umwelt
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Ökologie
Medium: Buch
ISBN-13: 9780198875789
ISBN-10: 0198875789
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Lenton Obe, Tim
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Abbildungen: 30 figures
Maße: 237 x 154 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: Tim Lenton Obe
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.09.2025
Gewicht: 0,528 kg
Artikel-ID: 133880253

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