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Experimenting on a Small Planet A History of Scientific Discoveries, a Future of Climate Change and Global Warming
This book is a thorough introduction to climate science and global change. The author is a geologist who has spent much of his life investigating the...
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The Nature of Energy Received from the Sun—Figuring Out What Light Really Is
The analogs, water and sound wavesSound waves, discussed in the previous chapter stimulated a lot of thought about the nature of light. However, it...
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The Climate System
It was just at the end of the nineteenth century that a true understanding of how the climate system operates began to develop. Stefan’s law was a...
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Oxygen and Ozone—Products and Protectors of Life
Our planet is unique among those in our solar system in that its atmosphere contains two unusual gases, diatomic oxygenOxygen (O2) which we call...
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Air
Our modern knowledge of air goes back to the middle of the seventeenth century. It had been recognized that there was a relationship between...
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Carbon Dioxide
Now we finally come to something I know about from personal experience. Investigating the role of carbonCarbon dioxide in climate change is the line...
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Global Climate Change—The Geologically Immediate Past
In[aut]Agassiz, Louis considering what may happen in the future as a result of the human perturbations of natural processes, it is useful to examine...
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Albedo
The discussion of solar insolationInsolation in Chap. 12 stated that the solar constantSolar constant is about...
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The Biological Interactions
It was at one of those convivial evenings in Moscow in 1991 that I was introduced to a whole new world of ideas about how the Earth worksWork. The...
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The Earth is a Sphere and Rotates
The circulation of Earth’s atmosphere and oceans would be very simple, and straightforward if it were not for the planet’s shape and rotation. That...
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Final Thoughts
Among the problems facing humanity today, two of the most important are global climate change and ongoing growth of the human population. Solutions...
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A Procedural Paradigm for Green Project Management of Sustainable Development
The author discusses that project managers (PMs) are generally liable for the actualization of the construction management objectives, as they have...
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The Relation Between Walking and Urban Form: Identifying Gaps in Egyptian Literature
Walkability is an indicator of how pleasant a walking area is. It has many benefits that include environmental, health, and economic, and it also...
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The Spatial Intercorrelation of Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions: An Empirical Verification of China’s Impacts by Spatial Durbin Panel Data Model
As the “Going Out” strategy has been introduced after WTO accession and post-crisis era, besides the economic effects, outward foreign direct...
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Pro-Environmental Behaviors in LEED and Non-LEED-Certified Workplaces: A Comparative Study
LEED, a green building rating system, provides a framework for sustainable building and assesses a building’s energy and resource efficiency. LEED...
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Toward a Sustainable Design of the Rehabilitation Centers for Addiction
The process of applying sustainability in the design of addiction rehabilitation centers is essential. Previous studies can be defined sustainability...
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Improving Sustainability in Indian Cities Through Expansion of Edible Green Spaces: Exploring Million Plus Cities of Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad
Current food systems for cities are becoming unsustainable, especially with rapidly increasing population to feed. Food for city dwellers travels...
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Utilization of Neural Network-Based Approach in Bike Routes Optimization for Port Said Urban Road Network
Transport department of urban cities always need to keep abreast of sustainable developments such as in Port Said city that is an important urban...
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Sustainable Living Fences (SLF): To Develop the Function and Form of Universities’ Fences. (Based on Value Architecture)
Sustainable facilities have a considerable positive impact on the sustainability of universities. So Egyptian universities should strive to become...
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Utilizing Wind-Driven Ventilation Force as a Technique in Adaptive Passive Interior Design
Sustainability has always been known as the quality of being able to continue over a long time considering environmental, social and economic aspects...