Earth Observations And Global Change

Download or read book Earth Observations and Global Change written by Lyn Wigbels and published by CSIS. This book was released on 2008 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... Rather than learning to adapt to natural and manmade disasters, the changing climate, the global food crisis, as well as our growing appetite for energy, and dealing only with the consequences after the fact, we need to start focusing our efforts on the Earth observation systems that will better connect humanity and its home, allowing us to prevent, predict, and mitigate the increasingly dramatic impacts of global change."--from pub. synopsis.