Countering 21st century social-environmental threats to growing global populations
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Siegel, Frederic R.

Başlık
Countering 21st century social-environmental threats to growing global populations

Yazar
Siegel, Frederic R.

ISBN
9783319096858

Yazar Ek Girişi
Siegel, Frederic R.

Fiziksel Tanımlama
xv, 164 pages : 21 cm. table.

İçerik
Preface; Contents; Abbreviations; 1 Population Assessments: 2013 & hx2013; 2050 & hx2013; 2100: Growth, Stability, Contraction; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Reasons for the Exponential Growth in the Earth's Population; 1.2.1 Human ; 1.2.2 Fertility; 1.2.3 ; 1.2.4 Obstacles in Global ; 1.3 Projections for Near-Future (One & hx2013; Two Generations) Populations; 1.4 Afterword; References; 2 Options to Increase Freshwater Supplies and Accessibility; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Earth's H2O Inventory: Liquid, Solid, Gas; 2.3 Volumes of Water for Some Agricultural, Industrial, Commercial, and Domestic Use. 2.4 in 2012 with Recalculations for 20502.5 Strategies to Improve Water Supplies; 2.5.1 Import/; 2.5.2 Find New ; 2.5.2.1 ; 2.5.2.2 The ; 2.5.3 Recycle Wastewater into the Freshwater Inventory; 2.5.3.1 Domestic ; 2.5.3.2 Wastewater from ; 2.5.3.3 ; 2.5.3.4 Agricultural Wastewater; 2.5.4 Create/; 2.5.4.1 ; 2.5.4.2 Nanofiltration of Tainted River Water; 2.5.4.3 Reduction of for Specific Operations; 2.6 Benefits/ of Improved Water Supply; 2.6.1 Support Research; 2.7 Afterword; References; 3 Strategies to Increase Food Supplies for Rapidly Growing Populations: Crops, Livestock, and Fisheries. 3.1 Introduction3.2 Strategies to ; 3.2.1 Increase the that Can Be Tilled; 3.2.2 and Nutritional Value: Improve Seed that from Harm by Biological, Physical, Agents; 3.2.2.1 Traditional Hybridization; 3.2.2.2 Marker-Assisted Selection for Traditional Hybridization; 3.2.2.3 Genetic Engineering: Genetic Manipulation/Modification; 3.2.2.4 Vertical Farming; 3.3 Agricultural Practices to Prevent Soil and Maintain Soil Fertility Managing Water and Farming Methods that Protect Soil and Nearby Ecosystems; 3.3.1 Soil Preparation for Planting, Cultivating, and Harvesting ; 3.3.1.1 Tilling. 3.3.1.2 No-Tilling3.3.1.3 Multispecies or ; 3.3.1.4 Intensified Agriculture; 3.3.1.5 Sustaining Soil Fertility; 3.3.1.6 Optimizing Water Use; 3.3.1.7 Managing the Problem of Soil Salination; 3.3.1.8 Minimizing Pre-distribution Food Loss; 3.3.2 Increasing Livestock (Protein) Contribution to the Global Food Supply; 3.3.2.1 Physical/Biological; 3.3.2.2 Biological/Pharmaceutical; 3.3.3 Fishery Contributions to Global Food Stocks Can Help Feed Growing Populations; 3.3.4 The Impacts of Global Warming/Climate Change on the World's Food Supply; 3.3.4.1 Crops; 3.3.4.2 Livestock; 3.3.4.3 Fisheries. 3.4 AfterwordReferences; 4 Shelter: Proactive Planning to Protect Citizens from Natural Hazards; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Foresight in Site Selection from Studies of Past and More ; 4.2.1 ; 4.2.2 Volcanic Eruptions; 4.2.3 ; 4.2.4 Mass Movements; 4.2.5 Events; 4.3 Sociopolitical and Economic Methods to of High Hazard Zones; 4.4 Practices to Protect Citizens/Property from Occasional Battering by Natural Hazards; 4.4.1 ; 4.4.2 ; 4.5 Prediction ; 4.5.1 ; 4.5.2 Volcanic Activity; 4.5.3 ; 4.5.4 Tsunamis; 4.5.5 Events; 4.6 Pre-planning : Citizen Care, Search, and Rescue Operations; 4.7 Afterword.

Özet
This book brings together in a single volume a grand overview of solutions - political, economic, and scientific - to social and environmental problems that are related to the growth of human populations in areas that can least cope with them now. Through progressive adaptation to social and environmental changes projected for the future, including population growth, global warming/climate change, water deficits, and increasing competition for other natural resources, the world may be able to achieve a fair degree of sustainability for some time into the future.

Konu Başlığı
Sustainable development.
 
Sürdürülebilir kalkınma.
 
Human ecology.
 
İnsan ekolojisi.
 
Human beings -- Effect of environment on.
 
İnsan ekoloji -- Çevreye etkisi.


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