The failure of the UN climate change summit in Copenhagen in December 2009 to effectively reach a global agreement on emission reduction targets, led many within the developing world to view this as a reversal of the Kyoto Protocol and an attempt by the developed nations to shirk out of their responsibility for climate change. The issue of global warming has been at the top of the political agenda for a number of years and has become even more pressing with the rapid industrialization taking place in China and India. This book looks at the effects of climate change throughout different regions of the world and discusses to what extent cleantech and environmental initiatives such as the destruction of fluorinated greenhouse gases, biofuels, and the role of plant breeding and biotechnology. The book concludes with an insight into the socio-religious impact that global warming has, citing Christianity and Islam.

The book outlines the evidence that global warming is caused by the direct heating effect of the sun’s rays on the planet and provides a step-by-step program on what we must do to arrest this. The G20 nations should join forces to attain the cooperation of all nations to initiate the program as soon as possible to stop the global warming advance and make this a priority strategy. Desertification, partly due to global warming, is progressing at an alarming rate.

Robert Stenberg once said, “There is no Recipe to be a Great Teacher, That’s what, is unique about them”. Every teacher has their own way of teaching who delicately shapes impressionable minds and molds it into a vessel that defines perceptions and ambitions that impact to the large part the society Central Teaching Eligibility Test or CTET is the national level examination that is conducted to recruit the most eligible candidates as teachers at Primary and Upper Primary Levels. It is held twice in a year in the month of July and December. The exam is divided into 2 Papers, As per the CTET 2020 Exam Pattern, Paper -1 is for the Classes 1-5 whereas Paper – 2 is meant for those who want to become a teacher of classes 6–8. To teach the students of Class 6-8 one has to appear for both the exams. The current edition of “Social Science & Pedagogy for classes VI to VIII” is the complete study guide that has been developed on the basis of the syllabus prescribed in the CTET & other State TETs related examination. The book is divided into 4 Sections and sub divided into chapters, giving the Chapterwise coverage to the text of the syllabus, Practice Exercise with previous years’ Question asked in the exam. 5 Practice sets including 2019 Solved paper have been provided in this text book that are designed exactly based on the latest pattern of the examination that help aspirants to know the trends. Housed with more than 1500 MCQs, it gives robust study material useful for CTET, UPTET, HTET, UTET, CGTET, and all other states TETs. TABLE OF CONTENTS Solved Paper 2019 (Dec), Solved Paper 2018 (Dec), Solved Paper 2016 (Sept), Solved Paper 2016 (Feb), History: When, Where and How, The First Cities, New Ideas, The Early State and First Empire, Contacts with Distant Land and Political Development, Culture and Science, New Kings and Kingdoms, Delhi Sultanate and Its Architecture, Mughal Empire, Social Change, Regional Culture, The Establishment of Company Power, Rural Life and Society Under Colonialism, Revolt of 1857, Peasant Labour and Tribal Movement, Social and Woman Reforms, National Movement and India after Independence, Geography: Geography as a Social Study and Science, Planet: Earth in the Solar System, Globe, Nature and Human Environment, Air, Water, Human Environment, Resources: Human and Natural, Agriculture, Civics: India: Unity in Diversity, Democracy and Constitution, Government: Local and State Government, Parliamentary Government, The Judiciary, Marginalisation and Social Justice, Understanding Media, Making Living, Pedagogy: Concept and Nature of Social Science, Classroom Processes Activities and Discourse, Developing Critical Thinking, Enquiry / Empirical Evidence, Problems of Teaching Social Science / Studies, Sources: Primary and Secondary, Project Work, Evaluation, Practice Sets (1-5).

This book provides a holistic consideration of climate change that goes beyond pure science, fleshing out the discussion by considering cultural, historical, and policy-driven aspects of this important issue. Climate change is a controversial topic that promises to reframe rudimentary ideas about our world and how we will live in it. The articles in Climate Change: An Encyclopedia of Science and History are designed to inform readers' decision making through the insight of scholars from around the world, each of whom brings a unique approach to this topic. The work goes beyond pure science to consider other important factors, weighing the cultural, historical, and policy-driven contributors to this issue. In addition, the book explores the ideas that have converged and evolved in order to clarify our current predicament. By considering climate change in this holistic fashion, this reference collection will prepare readers to consider the issue from every angle. Each article in the work is suitable for general readers, particularly students in high school and college, and is intended to inform and educate anyone about climate change, providing valuable information regarding the stages of mitigation and adaptation that are occurring all around us.

The Democracy Ranking measures on a regular and annual basis the quality of democracy and democracy improvement (increases and decreases of quality) in a world-wide comparison. The Democracy Ranking identifies one political and five non-political dimensions: politics (political system); gender equality (socioeconomic and educational); economy (economic system); knowledge (knowledge society and economy, education and research); health (health status and health system); and the environment (environmental sustainability). Quality of democracy leads to progress and quality of life. The Democracy Ranking Edition 2012 covers 110 countries. In this book you learn what quality of democracy means and what effect it has. Over 120 illustrations, and world maps in color, assist in understanding the world of democracy and for comparing the individual countries with each other. The Democracy Ranking offers new insight to 110 countries of the world by the world-wide ranking of democracies.

INSIDE ISSUE #90 November/December 2011: ET PRESENCE: Indians & Aliens GREATER DIMENSIONS: Return Engagements The Paraffin Mold Experiments The Brownings and the Medium Did Ancient Shamans Know Secrets of the Wave? When Three Is a Charm Dating the Oldest Cut Marks on Bone NEW AGE ADVENTURE: The Perilous Plight of Rockall Island Mysteries in the Fields

This book focuses on the complex relationship between education and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and highlights how important context is for both critiquing and achieving the Goals though education, given the critical role teachers, schools and curriculum play in young people’s lives. Readers will find examples of thinking and practice across the spectrum of education and training sectors, both formal and informal. The book adds to the increasing body of literature that recognises that education is, and must be, in its praxis, at the heart of all the SDGs. As we enter the third decade of the 21st century, we have a clear understanding of the wicked and complex crises regarding the health of life on our planet, and we cannot ignore the high levels of anxiety our young people are experiencing about their future. Continuing in the direction of unsustainable exploitation of people and nature is no longer an option if life is to have a flourishing future. The book illustrates how SDGs are supported in and by education and training, showcasing the conditions necessary to ensure SDGs are fore fronted in policy reform. It includes real-world examples of SDGs in education and training contexts, as well as novel critiques of the SDGs in regard to their privileging of anthropocentrism and neoliberalism. This book is beneficial to academics, researchers, post graduate and tertiary students from all fields relating to education and training. It is also of interest to policy developers from across disciplines and government agencies who are interested in how the SDGs relate to education.

Americans have long been enthralled by visions of the apocalypse. Will the world end through nuclear war, environmental degradation, and declining biodiversity? Or, perhaps, through the second coming of Christ, rapture of the faithful, and arrival of the Antichrist—a set of beliefs known as dispensationalist premillennialism? These seemingly competing apocalyptic fantasies are not as dissimilar as we might think. In fact, Lisa Vox argues, although these secular and religious visions of the end of the world developed independently, they have converged to create the landscape of our current apocalyptic imagination. In Existential Threats, Vox assembles a wide range of media—science fiction movies, biblical tractates, rapture fiction—to develop a critical history of the apocalyptic imagination from the late 1800s to the present. Apocalypticism was once solely a religious ideology, Vox contends, which has secularized in response to increasing technological and political threats to American safety. Vox reads texts ranging from Christianity Today articles on ecology and the atomic bomb to Dr. Strangelove, and from Mary Shelley's The Last Man to the Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, demonstrating along the way that conservative evangelicals have not been as resistant to science as popularly believed and that scientists and science writers have unwittingly reproduced evangelical eschatological themes and scenarios in their own works. Existential Threats argues that American apocalypticism reflects and propagates our ongoing debates over the authority of science, the place of religion, uses of technology, and America's evolving role in global politics.