Giorgio Bertini
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Climate change is causing a major redistribution of Life on Earth
Last year in Paris, for the very first time, English sparkling wine beat champagne in a blind tasting event. Well established French Champagne houses have started buying fields in Britain to grow grapes, and even the royal family is investing … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change
Tagged climate change
City Regions as Landscapes for People, Food and Nature
This paper is focused on how agriculture – including the natural and cultural resources that sustain people in and around cities, and even in remote rural areas – provides important and reciprocal benefits to the sustainable development of both rural … Continue reading
Posted in City, Climate change, Food, Landscapes, Region, Rural, Sustainability
Tagged city, climate change, food, landscapes, Region, Rural, sustainability
A Rough Ride to the Future
In A Rough Ride to the Future, James Lovelock – the great scientific visionary of our age – presents a radical vision of humanity’s future as the thinking brain of our Earth-system James Lovelock, who has been hailed as ‘the … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Evolution, Human agency, Sustainability
Tagged climate change, evolution, human agency, sustainability
Climate Change and the Course of Global History: A Rough Journey
Climate Change and the Course of Global History presents the first global study by a historian to fully integrate the earth-system approach of the new climate science with the material history of humanity. Part I argues that geological, environmental, and … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Earth system, Earth system science, Evolution, History, Humans
Tagged climate change, earth system, earth system science, evolution, history, humans
Climate Change and Cultural Dynamics
The Middle Holocene epoch (8,000 to 3,000 years ago) was a time of dramatic changes in the physical world and in human cultures. Across this span, climatic conditions changed rapidly, with cooling in the high to mid-latitudes and drying in … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Culture, Socio-ecological systems
Tagged climate change, culture, socio-ecological systems
The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society
Climate change presents perhaps the most profound challenge ever to have confronted human social, political, and economic systems. The stakes are massive, the risks and uncertainties severe, the economics controversial, the science besieged, the politics bitter and complicated, the psychology … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Society
Tagged climate change, society
Resource Guide on Gender and Climate Change
Climate change is the defining human development issue of our generation. The 2007 Human Development report acknowledges that climate change threatens to erode human freedoms and limit choice and the report further underscores that gender inequality intersects with climate risks … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Gender
Tagged climate change, gender
The Inequalities of Climate Change
Climate change is inextricably linked to economic inequality: it is a crisis that is driven by the greenhouse gas emissions of the ‘haves’ that hits the ‘have-nots’ the hardest. In this briefing Oxfam demonstrates the extent of global carbon inequality … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Innequality, Poverty
Tagged climate change, innequality, poverty
Oslo Principles on Global Climate Change Obligations
Climate change threatens the well-being of the Earth. The threats are grave and imminent. Indeed, climate change has already begun to harm human communities and the environment. As a group of legal experts concerned about global climate change and its … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change
Tagged climate change
Biodiversity increases the Resistance of Ecosystem productivity to Climate extremes
It remains unclear whether biodiversity buffers ecosystems against climate extremes, which are becoming increasingly frequent worldwide. Early results suggested that the ecosystem productivity of diverse grassland plant communities was more resistant, changing less during drought, and more resilient, recovering more … Continue reading
Posted in Biodiversity, Climate change, Ecosystem
Tagged biodiversity, climate change, ecosystem
