Conversations about the Environment.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burton, Howard.

Series:

Ideas Roadshow Collections

Ideas Roadshow Collections ; v.6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coral reef ecology.

Marine ecology.

Sun.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Open Agenda Publishing, 2021.

Summary:

Conversations About The Environment is a five-part Ideas Roadshow Collection of carefully-edited Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring leading experts with a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. All five books include a detailed essay setting up the different ideas and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter. The following experts have participated in this Collection: 1. Joanna Haigh, Professor Emerita of Atmospheric Physics at Imperial College London and Co-Director of the Grantham Institute;2. Andy Hoffman, Holcim Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business and School of Environment and Sustainability (Part 1 and Part 2); 3. Charles Sheppard, Professor of Life Sciences at the University of Warwick;4. Edie Widder, Founder, CEO and Senior Scientist at Ocean Research & Conservation Association (ORCA). Howard Burton is the creator and host of Ideas Roadshow and was the Founding Executive Director of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and an MA in philosophy.

Contents:

Intro

Textual Note

Preface

Solar Impact

Climate and the Sun

A conversation with Joanna Haigh

Introduction

I. Meteorological Beginnings

II. Science and Gender

III. A Curious Correspondence

IV. Considering the Earth

V. Considering the Sun

VI. The Big Picture

VII. Examining the Details

VIII. Getting The Word Out

IX. Public Policy

X. Final Thoughts

Continuing the Conversation

Ocean Enlightenment

A conversation with Edie Widder

I. Bright Beginnings

II. Bioluminescence

III. The Eye-in-the-Sea

IV. Grappling with a Coastline Crisis

V. Kids to the Rescue

VI. Existential Challenges

Coral Reefs

Science and Survival

A conversation with Charles Sheppard

I. Watery Beginnings

II. Building A Reef

III. Gratuitously Unsustainable

IV. Towards Progress?

V. Climate Change

VI. What To Do?

Saving the World at Business School

Part 1

A first conversation with Andy Hoffman

I. Building a Career

II. Environmental Evolution

III. Beyond Punditry

IV. Fostering Debate

V. American Exceptionalism?

VI. Talking the Talk

VII. Preaching to the Choir?

VIII. Energy Renaissance

IX. Reinventing Sustainability

X. Surprising Revolutionaries

XI. Setting Ideals

XII. Impact

XIII. The Passion Principle

Part 2

A second conversation with Andy Hoffman

I. Reprise

II. Truth Decay

III. The Value of Wisdom

IV. Investigating Rewards

V. Concrete Opportunities

VI. Management as a Calling

VII. Opinionated Ignorance

VIII. Qualified Optimism

IX. Spreading the Word

X. Getting Personal

XI. Shattered Leadership?.

Continuing the Conversation.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781771701976

1771701978

9781771701747

1771701749

OCLC:

1255234841