Copyright
Philippe D. TortellPublished On
2020-04-22ISBN
Language
- English
Print Length
288 pages (xvi + 278)Dimensions
Weight
Media
OCLC Number
1154460896LCCN
2020414212BIC
- RNKH
- RND
BISAC
- NAT010000
- NAT011000
- SCI026000
LCC
- GE149
- E26
Keywords
- Earth Day
- Earth’s environment
- Earth’s natural systems
Earth 2020
An Insider’s Guide to a Rapidly Changing Planet
Fifty years have passed since the first Earth Day, on 22 April 1970. This accessible, incisive, and timely collection of essays brings together a diverse set of expert voices to examine how the Earth’s environment has changed over this past half century, and what lies in store for our planet over the coming fifty years.
Earth 2020: An Insider’s Guide to a Rapidly Changing Planet responds to a public increasingly concerned about the deterioration of Earth’s natural systems, offering readers a wealth of perspectives on our shared ecological past, and on the future trajectory of planet Earth.
Written by world-leading thinkers on the front-lines of global change research and policy, this multi-disciplinary collection maintains a dual focus: some essays investigate specific facets of the physical Earth system, while others explore the social, legal and political dimensions shaping the human environmental footprint. In doing so, the essays collectively highlight the urgent need for collaboration across diverse domains of expertise in addressing one of the most significant challenges facing us today.
Earth 2020 is essential reading for everyone seeking a deeper understanding of the past, present and future of our planet, and the role of humanity in shaping this trajectory.
Reviews
Conceived before Covid-19, 'Earth 2020: An Insider’s Guide to a Rapidly Changing Planet' is an attempt to review various environmental topics from climate change to biodiversity and pollution crises in a series of testimonies by "insiders,” specialists in their respective disciplines. It begins with a solid introduction by Philippe Tortell explaining his journey into the preparation of these essays. As he explains in the introduction the idea for this book came to him as a way "to focus public attention (if only for a short while) on topics of significant importance.”[5] Tortell explains the book as a way of assessing the human footprint on the "Earth system” since the first celebration of Earth Day in 1970.
Loys Maingon
"A Measure of Change". The Ormsby Review, 2021.
Additional Resources
On Monday, May 4, at 12 p.m. EDT the Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society at Dartmouth hosted an online panel discussions with four contributors of Earth 2020: An Insider's Guide to a Rapidly Changing Planet.This panel was co-moderated by Philippe Tortell, editor of the title and professor at the University of British Columbia and Elizabeth Wilson, director of the Irving Institute and professor of environmental studies at Dartmouth College.
In this panel the following authors participated:
Sally N. Aitken, University of British Columbia
Douglas G. MacMartin, Cornell University
Roland Geyer, University of California, Santa Barbara
U. Rashid Sumaila, University of British Columbia
The second panel includes the following panelists:
Robert Socolow, Princeton University
Candis Callison, University of British Columbia
Janet G. Hering, ETH and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Alice Gorman Flinders University
Contents
Introduction
(pp. 1–8)- Philippe D. Tortell
Earth Sounds
(pp. 9–12)- Philippe D. Tortell
Impatient Earth
(pp. 13–22)- John Harte
- Robert Socolow
Climate 1970-2020
(pp. 23–32)- Tapio Schneider
Politics and Law
(pp. 33–42)- Elizabeth May
Carbon
(pp. 43–50)- David Archer
Everyday Biodiversity
(pp. 51–58)- Jeffrey R. Smith
- Gretchen C. Daily
Energy
(pp. 59–66)- Elizabeth J. Wilson
- Elias Grove Nielsen
Forests
(pp. 67–76)- Sally N. Aitken
Environmental Economics
(pp. 77–84)- Don Fullerton
Air
(pp. 85–92)- Jon Abbatt
Geoengineering
(pp. 93–100)- Douglas G. MacMartin
- Katharine L. Ricke
Ice
(pp. 101–110)- Julian Dowdeswell
Imaging Earth
(pp. 111–132)- Edward Burtynsky
Mother Earth
(pp. 133–140)- Deborah McGregor
Sea Level Rise, 1970-2070: A View from the Future
(pp. 141–150)- Robert E. Kopp
Climate Negotiation
(pp. 151–160)- Rosemary Lyster
Weather
(pp. 161–168)- Neville Nicholls
Knowing Earth
(pp. 169–176)- Sheila Jasanoff
Fish
(pp. 177–184)- U. Rashid Sumaila
- Daniel Pauly
The Global Chemical Experiment
(pp. 185–194)- Elsie Sunderland
- Charlotte Wagner
Land
(pp. 195–202)- Navin Ramankutty
- Hannah Wittman
Oceans 2020
(pp. 203–212)- David M. Karl
Earth and Plastic
(pp. 213–220)- Roland Geyer
Fresh Water
(pp. 221–230)- Janet G. Hering
Media
(pp. 231–238)- Candis Callison
Space Junk
(pp. 239–246)- Alice Gorman
Saving the Boat
(pp. 247–252)- Zoe Craig-Sparrow
- Grace Nosek-Sparrow