Elsevier Water and Climate Change: Sustainable Development, Environmental and Policy Issues

Product Description Water and Climate Change: Sustainable Development, Politics and Social Issues focuses on climate change and global warming, sustainable development and social and political issues surrounding water. Throughout the book, global contributors provide an outlook on the possible future of the world if climate issues continue to increase. In this regard, readers will become fully aware of the dangers of climate change and global warming. To counterbalance, the book also provides an outlook to the possible future of the world if changes are made and emissions are reduced.Water shortages and water pollution are real and are beginning to affect the lives of every one of us on the planet. We are rapidly reaching a point of no return. If we do nothing about water shortages and water pollution, many of the catastrophes mentioned in this book will come to pass. As such, this reference is a must-read resource for environmental scientists and engineers, water resource experts, agriculturalists, social scientists, earth scientists, geographers and decision-makers in government and water management. Review Globally contributed reference that provides further understanding on the links between water and climate change, sustainable development, and social and political issues From the Back Cover Water and Climate Change: Sustainable Development, Politics and Social Issues is made up of 4 sections: Introduction- with a focus on climate change and global warming, Sustainable Development, Social, and Political issues of water. Throughout the book the global contributors include an outlook to the possible future of the world if the climate issue continues to rise. In this regard, the reader will become fully aware of the dangers of climate change and global warming- leading people to make every effort to reduce carbon emissions. To counterbalance, the book also provides an outlook to the possible future of the world if changes are made and emissions are reduced. Water shortages and water pollution are real and are beginning to affect the lives of every one of us on the planet. We are rapidly reaching a point of no return and if we do not do something about water shortages and water pollution soon, many of the catastrophes mentioned in the book will come to pass. As such, Water and Climate Change is a must-read reference for environmental scientists and engineers, water resource experts, agriculturalists, social scientists, earth scientists, geographers, decision makers in government and also in water management. About the Author Professor Letcher was Professor of Chemistry, and Head of Department in South Africa (University of the Witwatersrand, Rhodes University and Natal) (1969 -2004). He has published over 300 papers on chemical thermodynamic topics in peer reviewed journals; and 100 papers in popular science and education journals. He has edited and written 28 books ranging from Future Energy Climate Change, Storing Energy, Wind Energy, Solar Energy, Managing Global Warming and Unraveling Environmental Disasters. He has been awarded gold medals by the South African Institute of Chemistry and the South African Association for the Advancement of Science. He is currently Emeritus Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and living in the United Kingdom.