Free Download Designing with the Wind: Climate-Derived Architecture
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031244400 | 127 Pages | PDF (True) | 10 MB
This book explores wind-adaptive architectural design blending the parametric design with digital simulations and suggests a novel approach for specific, even extreme conditions, as the first step in creating architecture that can act in response to the nature around. The chapters propose an urban and architectural design that emerges from the specific wind microclimate of the design site and responds to the changes in the ambient wind conditions. The book looks closely at A) the interdisciplinary wind-driven design method for architects, engineers, and urbanists employing open-source software for CFD analysis and B) the tensegrity-membrane adaptive building façades. The main questions the authors try to answer are: How does the wind-driven methodology enhance the wind comfort around buildings? How can it contribute to the reduction of wind surface loads acting on buildings?

Free Download Alper Baba, Gökmen Tayfur, Orhan Gündüz, "Climate Change and its Effects on Water Resources: Issues of National and Global Security (NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security)"
English | 2011 | pages: 302 | ISBN: 9400711425, 940071145X | PDF | 16,0 mb
National and global security can be assessed in many ways but one underlying factor for all humanity is access to reliable sources of water for drinking, sanitation, food production and manufacturing industry. In many parts of the world, population growth and an escalating demand for water already threaten the sustainable management of available water supplies. Global warming, climate change and rising sea level are expected to intensify the resource sustainability issue in many water-stressed regions of the world by reducing the annual supply of renewable fresh water and promoting the intrusion of saline water into aquifers along sea coasts, where 50% of the global population reside. Pro-active resource management decisions are required, but such efforts would be futile unless reliable predictions can be made about the impact of the changing global conditions on the water cycle and the quality and availability of critical water reserves. Addressing this wide spectrum of issues, a team of expert authors discusses here the impacts of climate change on the global water resources, the long-term resource management goals at global and local scales, the data requirements and the scientific and technical advances necessary to mitigate the associated impacts.

Free Download Climate Change and Vulnerability and Adaptation By Adejuwon, James; Barros, Vincente; Burton, Ian; Conde, Cecilia; Kulkarni, Jyoti; Lasco, Rodel; Leary, Neil; Nyong, Anthony; Pulhin, Juan
2013 | 845 Pages | ISBN: 1844074706 | PDF | 19 MB
'Sound and solid case studies on vulnerability and adaptation have been woefully lacking in the international discourse on climate change. This set of books begins to bridge the gap.'Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Director of United Nations Environment Programme'Important reading for students and practitioners alike.'Martin Parry, Co-Chair, Working Group II (Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability), Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'Fills an important gap in our understanding ... It is policy-relevant and deserves to be widely read.'Richard Klein, Senior R.

Free Download Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, "Climate Change Guidelines for Forest Managers "
English | ISBN: 9251078319 | 2013 | 145 pages | PDF | 7 MB
These guidelines have been prepared to assist forest managers to better assess and respond to climate change challenges and opportunities at the forest management unit level. The actions they propose are relevant to all kinds of forest managers-such as individual forest owners, private forest enterprises, public-sector agencies, indigenous groups and community forest organizations. They are applicable in all forests types and regions and for all management objectives. This document complements a set of guidelines prepared by FAO in 2010 to support policy-makers in integrating climate change concerns into new or existing forest policies and national forests programs.

Free Download Climate Change Criminology By Rob White
2018 | 176 Pages | ISBN: 1447346564 | PDF | 16 MB
Climate change is arguably the most important issue of the contemporary era, with ramifications reaching beyond the purely ecological and into the realms of politics and economics. Rob White's new book takes a unique perspective on this topic by providing a concise yet critical overview of the criminological writings on climate change. Climate Change Criminology contributes a distinctive analytical approach to the study of climate change by unpacking and exploring concepts such as ecocide, contrarianism and state-corporate crime. The book also delves into the implications of climate change with respect to harm, victimization, and accountability. Climate Change Criminology is a call to arms for citizens and criminologists alike to address the most pressing issue besetting humanity today. As White compellingly shows, the future is in our collective hands.

Free Download Climate Change Adaptation from Geotechnical Perspectives
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9819992141 | 439 Pages | PDF (True) | 18 MB
This book presents select proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Construction Resources for Environmentally Sustainable Technologies (CREST 2023), and focuses on sustainability, promotion of new ideas and innovations in design, construction and maintenance of geotechnical structures with the aim of contributing towards climate change adaptation and disaster resiliency to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It presents latest research, information, technological advancement, practical challenges encountered, and solutions adopted in the field of geotechnical engineering for sustainable infrastructure towards climate change adaptation. This volume will be of interest to those in academia and industry alike.

Free Download Climate Change: 2023
by Azhar ul Haque Sario
English | 2023 | ASIN: B0CNK11QDT | 246 Pages | ePUB | 0.23 MB

Free Download Climate Action and Hydrogen Economy: Technologies Shaping the Energy Transition
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9819962366 | 569 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 40 MB
This book focuses on up-to-date progress on the current status of technology and progress in climate action and hydrogen energy in India. It includes contributions from leading experts, and covers emerging topics such as issues & challenges in moving toward hydrogen economy, green hydrogen production technologies, hydrogen production from liquid hydrogen carriers, policy perspectives on hydrogen as energy source of the future, hybrid approaches for solar hydrogen, among others. This book is of interest to those working in academia, industry and policymakers in the field of energy.

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by Kata Dozsa
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032453907 | 237 Pages | True PDF | 12.4 MB

Free Download Tom Bristow, Thomas Ford, "A Cultural History of Climate Change"
English | 2017 | pages: 265 | ISBN: 0815355890, 1138838160 | PDF | 2,0 mb
Charting innovative directions in the environmental humanities, this book examines the cultural history of climate change under three broad headings: history, writing and politics. Climate change compels us to rethink many of our traditional means of historical understanding, and demands new ways of relating human knowledge, action and representations to the dimensions of geological and evolutionary time. To address these challenges, this book positions our present moment of climatic knowledge within much longer histories of climatic experience. Only in light of these histories, it argues, can we properly understand what climate means today across an array of discursive domains, from politics, literature and law to neighbourly conversation. Its chapters identify turning-points and experiments in the construction of climates and of atmospheres of sensation. They examine how contemporary ecological thought has repoliticised the representation of nature and detail vital aspects of the history and prehistory of our climatic modernity.