ABSTRACT
This book offers a solutions-based approach to climate change problems which potentially impinge on human beings within the tropics. It largely comprises research articles with supplementary applications and illustrations. The effects of atmospheric phenomena, energy acquisition, wind power, CO2 sequestration, are linked with soils, aquatic life, reducing deforestation, rainwater harvesting and clay pot farming, climate, plant disease and food security to show that no area of life is untouched by the phenomenon of climate change. It discusses specific problem areas and provides an overview of geotechnical and sustainable solutions to lessen the impact of climate.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|15 pages
Introduction: Countering Global Climate Change: Tropical Solutions
An Experimental Approach
chapter 2|15 pages
Water Vapor Condensation from Fossil Fuels and Tropical Volcanoes
Potential Effects on Global Warming
chapter 3|13 pages
Operation of Motor Vehicles in the Tropics below Recommended Engine Temperatures
Atmospheric and Health Ramifications
chapter 5|19 pages
Qualitative Correlations between Antecedent Rainfall and Landslip Frequency on Thin Shale Beds
Climate Change Implications
chapter 6|37 pages
Sixteen Landslip Provinces: A Hazard Classification Scheme in a Warming, Humid Trade Wind Climate
A Case Study
chapter 8|12 pages
Wind Vector Resultants through Restricted Sea Straits
Implications for Potential Wind Turbine Sites on Trade-Wind Coasts
chapter 10|19 pages
Erodibility of Two Soft Limestone Road Bases under Tropical Rain
Geotechnical Implications
chapter 11|13 pages
Carbon Sequestration in the Humid Tropics
Two Invasive Tree Species (Spathodea campanulata and Cananga odorata) as Building Materials
chapter 12|10 pages
Decomposition Rates of a Tropical Softwood after Removal of Non-Structural Carbohydrate
Implications for Carbon Sequestration
chapter 14|25 pages
Case Study: Thunderstorm Correlations with Deforestation in a Small Tropical Island
Implications for Warming Tropical Climates
chapter 15|13 pages
A Procedure for Sustainable Deforestation Preceding Mineral Extraction in the Humid Tropics
A Microcosmic Case Study
chapter 16|8 pages
Cold-Water Starch-Extracted Bamboo Used as Banana Tree-Braces
Implications for Atmospheric Carbon
chapter 18|20 pages
Rainwater Harvesting under a Warming Climate and Effects of Algae on Changes to Water Storage Levels
A Case Study
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chapter 19|16 pages
Five Methods for Humidification of Sweet Potato Stem-Cuttings
Implications for Extreme Tropical Weather
chapter 20|16 pages
Non-Chemical Decrease of Anthracnose Mango Fungus in Tropical Highlands
Implications for Rising Sea Levels
chapter 21|10 pages
Case Study: Controlled Defoliation of Mangifera indica (Mango) against Anthracnose Disease
Effect on Yields in a Warming, Humid Climate
chapter 23|9 pages
Phosphorus-Quenching in Soils under Tropical Climates
Residual Effects of Two Methods
chapter 24|13 pages
Clean-Weeding
Turbidity, Soil Loss, Landslips and Potential Exacerbations under Climate Change—Two Case Studies
chapter 26|2 pages
Conclusions: Coping with Global Climate Change
Experiments and Applications in the Tropics
