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Author | : Paul W. Hodge |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 1994-08-04 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0521360927 |
The essential guide to 139 sites where the Earth has had a direct hit from space.
Author | : Manfred Gottwald |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783399372613 |
Author | : Andrew May |
Publisher | : Icon Books |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2019-02-07 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1785784943 |
As end-of-the-world scenarios go, an apocalyptic collision with an asteroid or comet is the new kid on the block, gaining respectability only in the last decade of the 20th century with the realisation that the dinosaurs had been wiped out by just such an impact. Now the science community is making up for lost time, with worldwide efforts to track the thousands of potentially hazardous near-Earth objects, and plans for high-tech hardware that could deflect an incoming object from a collision course – a procedure depicted, with little regard for scientific accuracy, in several Hollywood movies. Astrophysicist and science writer Andrew May disentangles fact from fiction in this fast-moving and entertaining account, covering the nature and history of comets and asteroids, the reason why some orbits are more hazardous than others, the devastating local and global effects that an impact event would produce, and – more optimistically – the way future space missions could avert a catastrophe.
Author | : William B. Meyer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1996-02-23 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780521558471 |
At a level accessible to the general reader, this balanced and non-polemical book describes the changes human activities have produced in the global environment from 300 years ago to today.
Author | : Peter Grego |
Publisher | : Blandford Press |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780713727425 |
What's the likelihood of the impact on earth of debris from outer space? Even near misses can change our climate, while a major impact could be catastrophic, equivalent to that which caused the disappearance of the dinosaurs and the rise of mammalian mastery of the planet. In this fascinating survey of the great collisions and the dangerous close passes of recent and prehistoric times, you'll find detailed chronicles of the effect on our earth of comets, meteors, meteorites, meteor storms, shooting stars, cosmic famous fireballs, UFOs, and other phenomena.
Author | : Daniel Benest |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1998-03-18 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9783540642091 |
Impact phenomena play an essential role in the formation of planets and great influence during their evolution. The first part of this book describes the dynamics that propels asteroids in our solar system; the second part is devoted to impact phenomena; the third inspects terrestrial impacts of asteroids and the hazards due to space debris orbiting our planet. The book addresses scientists working in astronomy, extraterrestrial physics and geophysics. But it should also be of great interest to a learned public that wants to know about the most recent developments in this fast-moving field of theoretical and observational research.
Author | : Steven J. Dick |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2015-10-26 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1107109981 |
This book discusses the big questions about how the discovery of extraterrestrial life, whether intelligent or microbial, would impact society and humankind.
Author | : Mathis Wackernagel |
Publisher | : New Society Publishers |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 1998-07-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 086571312X |
Our Ecological Footprint presents an internationally-acclaimed tool for measuring and visualizing the resources required to sustain our households, communities, regions and nations, converting the seemingly complex concepts of carrying capacity, resource-use, waste-disposal and the like into a graphic form that everyone can grasp and use. An excellent handbook for community activists, planners, teachers, students and policy makers.
Author | : Masami Onoda |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2020-10-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781013268687 |
The result of a workshop bringing together an international advisory board of experts in science, satellite technologies, industry innovations, and public policy, this book addresses the current and future roles of satellite Earth observations in solving large-scale environmental problems. The book showcases the results of engaging distinct communities to enhance our ability to identify emerging problems and to administer international regimes created to solve them. It also reviews the work of the Policy and Earth Observation Innovation Cycle (PEOIC) project, an effort aimed at assessing the impact of satellite observations on environmental policy and to propose a mission going forward that would launch an "innovation cycle". The achievements of such a mission would feed back to innovations in next-generation observation technology, thus contributing to global policy demand for policy-relevant information. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 109 |
Release | : 2010-11-27 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0309158710 |
The stresses associated with climate change are expected to be felt keenly as human population grows to a projected 9 billion by the middle of this century, increasing the demand for resources and supporting infrastructure. Therefore, information to assess vulnerabilities to climate change is needed to support policies and investments designed to increase resilience in human and Earth systems. There are currently many observing systems that capture elements of how climate is changing, for example, direct measurements of atmospheric and ocean temperature. Although those measurements are essential for understanding the scale and nature of climate change, they do not necessarily provide information about the impacts of climate change on humans that are especially relevant for political and economic planning and decision making. Monitoring Climate Change Impacts tackles the challenge of developing an illustrative suite of indicators, measurements (and the locations around the globe where the measurements can be applied), and metrics that are important for understanding global climate change and providing insight into environmental sustainability. Eight panels provided input on: cryosphere, land-surface and terrestrial ecosystems, hydrology and water resources, atmosphere, human health and other dimensions, oceans (both physical and biological/chemical), and natural disasters. The book also provides an illustrative set of metrics that are likely to be affected by climate change over the next 20-25 years and, when taken together, can potentially give advance warning of climate-related changes to the human and environment systems.