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"This is a book every game designer, publisher, and player needs to read. From calculating the footprint of shipping disks to itemizing every toxic metal inside a game console, Abraham paints a detailed portrait of the many ways in which creating and playing games is harmful to our global environment. You will never play a videogame the same way again." - Eric Zimmerman, Game designer & Arts Professor, NYU Game Center. "Abraham provides a sweeping and revealing examination of the material realities underpinning both the production and consumption of digital games. Digital Games After Climate Change is important, engaging, and unlike anything else being written about digital games. This is urgently required reading for anyone with an interest in digital games and saving the planet." - Brendan Keogh, Chief Investigator, Digital Media Research Centre (QUT) & President, Digital Games Research Association of Australia. This book presents the first sustained analysis of the digital game industry's carbon footprint and its role in exacerbating global climate change. Identifying the ways videogames can actually help combat the climate crisis, it argues for the urgency of transitioning to a fully carbon neutral games industry, exploring the challenges and opportunities inherent in this undertaking. Beginning with an analysis of debates around the persuasive power of games, the book argues that real impact can only be achieved by focusing on the material conditions of game production - by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from making, selling, and playing games, as well as the hardware used to play them. Abraham makes a compelling argument that a sustainable games industry is possible, and outlines the actions that everyone can take to reduce the harms that digital games cause to people and planet. Benjamin J. Abraham has spent the past decade researching digital media and videogames sustainability. He was previously a lecturer in digital and social media at the University of Technology Sydney, an affiliate of the Climate Justice Research Centre, and has recently moved on from academia.

Nature protection --- Mass communications --- sociale media --- natuurbescherming --- Canvis climàtics --- Videojocs --- Climatic changes. --- Aspectes ambientals

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This volume presents twenty updated and new theories oftravelers decisions and behaviors. It describes the advances in theory construction and practical applications of theory in the disciplines of tourism, hospitality, leisure, and entertainment (THLE) research. The chapters all build on the grand models appearing in these four literature streams during 1965-2015. This approach is comprehensive in both coverage and depth with regard to constructing, testing, and applying theories of travelers decisions and behaviors, which includes original work in updating grand theories and micro (algorithm-conscious and non-conscious based) theories of travelers decisions and behavior. This volume is the first to fully recognize and construct theories across the THLE discipline. This volume describes the synergies, symbioses, and serendipity occurring in THLE behavior. It tears down researchers' parochial fences of what is and is not tourism, hospitality, leisure, and entertainment. The time has arrived to tourism to embrace hospitality, hospitality to embrace tourism, and all to embrace leisure and entertainment, and this volume servesas a catalyst to accomplish this embrace.

Tourism --- Environmental aspects. --- Holiday industry --- Operators, Tour (Industry) --- Tour operators (Industry) --- Tourism industry --- Tourism operators (Industry) --- Tourist industry --- Tourist trade --- Tourist traffic --- Travel industry --- Visitor industry --- Service industries --- National tourism organizations --- Travel --- Economic aspects --- Climatic changes --- Changes, Climatic --- Changes in climate --- Climate change --- Climate change science --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Environmental aspects --- E-books --- Climatic changes. --- Business & Economics --- Tourism industry. --- Industries --- Hospitality, Travel & Tourism. --- Global environmental change --- Turisme sostenible --- Canvis climàtics --- Canvi climàtic --- Canvis climàtics globals --- Fluctuacions climàtiques --- Variacions climàtiques --- Climatologia --- Aspectes ambientals --- Mitigació

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Desenvolupament de les plantes --- Canvi climàtic --- Canvis climàtics --- Canvi climàtic global --- Cicles climàtics --- Fluctuacions climàtiques --- Oscil·lacions climàtiques --- Variacions climàtiques --- Climatologia --- Degradació ambiental --- Desertització --- Canvi mediambiental global --- Dendroclimatologia --- Escalfament global --- Paleoclimatologia --- Temperatura atmosfèrica --- Desenvolupament de plantes cultivades --- Desenvolupament de plantes salvatges --- Biologia del desenvolupament --- Creixement (Plantes) --- Embriologia vegetal --- Plant breeding. --- Crops --- Agriculture --- Breeding

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This book deals with one of the major challenges facing human society and its governments, climate change and variability. The principal objective of the book is to explore how agricultural production through the actions primarily of farmers, including peasant farmers, adapt to these changing circumstances, what the limitations of adaptation are, how the process of adaptation varies between different territories (e.g. developed countries versus developing countries), and what are or can be the most effective roles for actors other than the farmers, including different levels of government and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) such as professional associations of farmers and community organizations. The principal argument is threefold: 1) while there are significant differences between territories and countries in terms of the capacity of farmers (and the other actors) to engage in capacity building to be able to adapt effectively to climate change and variability, 2) the critical roles are those played out by the farmers themselves, but that 3) other actors can play an important role in accompanying farmers in their adaptation process, providing relevant and strategic information, counseling them and facilitating networking and meetings when appropriate. This effectively means that without engaging in the local adaptation processes governments can really only play effective roles by working with other actors at the local and regional levels. When it occurs, it can be very effective, but when it does not, farmers are left to their own devices (and even then, many are able to use their own creativity and local knowledge to survive and continue to develop). Essentially therefore, the secondary argument that is followed throughout the book is that adaptation is essentially a social process that requires an understanding of social processes and dynamics in each farming community and territory. It involves an understanding, for instance, of information diffusion processes in the different farming communities and territories, which provides a set of tools to promote and facilitate the adoption process in the context of adaptation to climate change and variability.

Meteorology. Climatology --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Agronomy --- Agriculture. Animal husbandry. Hunting. Fishery --- Production management --- environment --- landbouw --- landbouwbeleid --- creativiteit --- duurzame ontwikkeling --- klimaatverandering --- broeikaseffect --- Climate change. --- Sustainable development. --- Agricultural economics. --- Agriculture. --- Agricultura --- Agricultura sostenible. --- Canvis climàtics. --- Climate Change. --- Climate Change Management and Policy. --- Sustainable Development. --- Agricultural Economics. --- Aspectes ambientals. --- Aspectes econòmics.

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Our diets are going to change dramatically as global warming affects growing seasons and the availability of different foods around the world. Meanwhile, our foodways are among the biggest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. To address these challenges Food in a Changing Climate demands we look beyond our plates to the roots of inequity in our food systems. It presents an unashamedly political agenda for 'deep adaptation', focused on the rejuvenation and strengthening of local and regional food systems that have been steadily eroded in the name of economic efficiency. The colonial origins of fossil-fuel based food production and trade persist in the marginalisation of farmers, food workers, and fishers in a corporatized food system that promotes the exploitation of the environment, excess production, and hyper-consumerism. These factors contribute to climate change, poverty, and health inequities on a global scale. Drawing on case studies from around the world, this book illustrates how the commodification of food has made us particularly vulnerable to climate change, extreme weather events, and pandemics such as COVID19. These shocks reveal the danger of our reliance on increasingly complex supply chains - dominated by a decreasing number of mega-companies - for our food security. The unsustainability of the way we produce and eat food is clear. It has been for a long time. Food in a Changing Climate explores how we can cultivate resilient communities through the just application of new technologies, the recovery of traditional knowledges, and by building diversity to protect the livelihoods of food producers everywhere.

Food industry and trade --- Food supply. --- Food --- Food security --- Political Science --- Food & society. --- Environmental aspects. --- Economic aspects. --- Climatic factors. --- Public Policy --- Agriculture & Food Policy. --- Climatology --- Foods --- Dinners and dining --- Home economics --- Table --- Cooking --- Diet --- Dietaries --- Gastronomy --- Nutrition --- Food control --- Produce trade --- Agriculture --- Single cell proteins --- Food preparation industry --- Food processing --- Food processing industry --- Food technology --- Food trade --- Agricultural processing industries --- Processed foods --- Processing --- Primitive societies --- Food industry and trade - Environmental aspects. --- Food Supply. --- Food - Economic aspects. --- Food security - Climatic factors. --- Seguretat alimentària --- Aliments --- Canvis climàtics --- Abastament --- Indústria i comerç --- Aspectes ambientals --- Bromatologia --- Comestibles --- Queviures --- Alimentació --- Àpats i banquets --- Cuina --- Digestió --- Economia domèstica --- Gastronomia --- Nutrició --- Taula, Art de la --- Tecnologia dels aliments --- Canvi climàtic --- Canvis climàtics globals --- Fluctuacions climàtiques --- Variacions climàtiques --- Climatologia --- Abastament d'aliments --- Abastaments --- Recursos alimentaris --- Subministrament d'aliments --- Agricultura --- Productes agrícoles --- Racionament del consum --- Inseguretat alimentària --- Mitigació --- Subministrament --- Comerç --- Food supply --- Political aspects.