This book focuses on a wide variety of topics linking the effects of global warming to major aspects of life in the tropics elucidating practical methods to mitigate these negative effects. This book provides practical, novel and widely applicable forms of best practice that improve the lives of those people living and working in tropical areas of the world. This research explains avenues that can be taken to improve human health and comfort, increasing food security, conserving energy and helping to preserve the air, soil and water quality of these precariously placed nations. These compiled research articles can assist governments and populations to cope with the changing conditions entailed in developing and tropical nations.

Author Biography

Mark A. Harris is a Professor of Applied Climatology and Environmental Chemistry at the Northern Caribbean University (NCU), Jamaica, where he has been on the faculty since 2002. He earned his baccalaureate degree in geography and geology at the University of Windsor, Canada, in 1977, and received his PhD in environmental geoscience from the University of Adelaide in 2001. In 1992-1995 he tutored at the University of Adelaide, Australia, in Earth science & physical geography. His research has focused mainly on remediation of polluted land, water and air. His previous book, published in 2016 by Springer-Nature, is titled "Geobiotechnological Solutions to Anthropogenic Disturbances." Professor Harris has been the senior author of approximately 30 research articles, having become the only multiple recipient of the NCU Distinguished Faculty Award for research or scholarship, having won it four times, in 2003, 2007, 2012 and 2016.