Fragile Earth: Views of a Changing World Hardcover by Collins
Fragile Earth: Views of a Changing World Hardcover by Collins. Dust jacket shows some minor signs of shelf wear/ storage (see photos). Inside text and pages are like just-arrived. Ships with tracking. Natural disasters, climate change, resource exploitation, and human development are all changing our planet at a relentless pace.Turn on the television, read any newspaper—one cannot avoid stories of the major changes that are taking place on Earth. Hurricanes and tornados in the Midwest, flooding along the coasts, melting of polar ice caps. What's going on?This book is an attempt to answer some of those questions. Written by leading experts, and using one-of-a-kind before-and-after satellite imagery to document what's taking place, Fragile Earth presents all of the changes that are occurring and what the likely outcomes for our planet will be.Different phenomena pose different risks. Natural phenomena, like earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, landslides, and avalanches, and wild weather, like trop