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Table of Contents PART I:  OUR ISLAND IN SPACE Chapter 1:  Cosmology and the Birth of the Earth Chapter 2:  Journey to the Center of the Earth Chapter 3:  Drifting Continents and Spreading Seas Chapter 4:  The Way the Earth Works: Plate Tectonics PART II:  EARTH MATERIALS Chapter 5:  Patterns in Nature: Minerals Chapter 6:  Up from the Inferno: Magma and Igneous Rocks Chapter 7:  Pages of Earth's Past: Sedimentary Rocks Chapter 8:  Metamorphism: A Process of Change PART III:  TECTONIC ACTIVITY OF A DYNAMIC PLANET Chapter 9:  The Wrath of Vulcan: Volcanic Eruptions Chapter 10:  A Violent Pulse: Earthquakes Chapter 11:  Crags, Cracks, and Crumples: Crustal Deformation and Mountain Building PART IV:  HISTORY BEFORE HISTORY Chapter 12:  Deep Time: How Old Is Old? Chapter 13:  A Biography of the Earth PART V:  EARTH RESOURCES Chapter 14:  Squeezing Power from a Stone: Energy Resources Chapter 15:  Riches in Rock: Mineral Resources PART VI:  PROCESSES AND PROBLEMS AT THE EARTH'S SURFACE Chapter 16:  Unsafe Ground: Landslides and Other Mass Movements Chapter 17:  Streams and Floods: The Geology of Running Water Chapter 18:  Restless Realm: Oceans and Coasts Chapter 19:  A Hidden Reserve: Groundwater Chapter 20:  An Envelope of Gas: The Earth's Atmosphere and Climate Chapter 21:  Dry Regions: The Geology of Deserts Chapter 22:  Amazing Ice: Glaciers and Ice Ages Chapter 23:  Global Change in the Earth System

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This volume, the second in the Lectures in Climate Change series, covers the full array of climate impacts and adaptation measures. It has been brought together by friends and colleagues of Dr Martin Parry, Co-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2007 assessment on impacts and adaptation. The writers are experts in this field and have been lead authors in many of the IPCC assessments and other major publications. Lectures in Climate Change is a unique combination of written text plus electronic slides that together comprise an informative and up-to-date set of presentations. This second volume, entitled Our Warming Planet: Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation, covers areas of climate impacts related to climate science, methods and approaches, sectors, regional and national studies, and policy and practice. The volume comprises topics such as current and future challenges of climate change, global assessments, downscaling, community-based adaptation, impacts on biodiversity, food systems, water resources, and cities. Research from across the world is presented on making science actionable through assessments, early warning and early action, communicating climate risk, documenting the uptake of adaptation on the global front, and transformation towards systemic resilience. Included with this publication are downloadable electronic slides and accompanying notes of each lecture for students, teachers, and public speakers around the world to be better able to understand and present climate change impacts and adaptation.