Climate change

This book focuses on two critical global issues—rapid population growth and a human-induced climate change.

In 1958, Charles David Keeling began measuring the concentration of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii.

This collection pulls together key documents from the scientific and political history of climate change, including congressional testimony, scientific papers, newspaper editorials, court cases, and international declarations.

Making the case that we can use nuclear power to combat climate change even as we reduce the risks of nuclear terror.

A comparative examination of domestic climate politics that offers a theory for cross-national differences in domestic climate policymaking.

How the planet''s two largest greenhouse gas emitters navigate climate policy.

A concise overview of carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS), a promising but overlooked climate change mitigation pathway.

How climate change can affect our health, from heat-related illnesses to extreme weather events.

An updated and accessible account of what science knows about climate change, incorporating the latest scientific findings and policy initiatives.

A leading scientist argues that we must consider deploying climate engineering technology to slow the pace of global warming.

A hard look at the twin challenges of climate change and energy scarcity that examines historical precedents and allows no room for complacency.

How Americans make energy choices, why they think locally (not globally), and how this can shape U.

A renowned climatologist—and political conservative—assesses current scientific understanding of climate change and sounds a call to action.

An analytically precise and theoretically probing exploration of the challenge to our values and virtues posed by climate change.

A leading economist develops a supply-side approach to fighting climate change that encourages resource owners to leave more of their fossil carbon underground.

An examination of how a transnational coalition of firms and NGOs influenced the emergence of emissions trading as a central component of global climate governance.

The science behind global warming, and its history: how scientists learned to understand the atmosphere, to measure it, to trace its past, and to model its future.

An introduction to the global carbon cycle and the human-caused disturbances to it that are at the heart of global warming and climate change.

Die globale Erwärmung konfrontiert Gesellschaften mit drängenden Fragen zu ihren Zukünften: Das Wissen um stetig steigende Emissionen und die wachsende Sorge vor katastrophalen Kipppunkten lassen einerseits auf einen grundlegenden Politikwechsel hoffen, andererseits fühlen sich viele Menschen angesichts ihrer scheinbaren Machtlosigkeit überfordert.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE DRAGON AWARDS 2025FINANCIAL TIMES' BEST SCIENCE FICTION BOOKS OF 2024Charlie and Parker are punks by night, biohackers by day, living in the stuttering decay of near-future climate-collapse London.

As urban populations grow unprecedentedly, cities worldwide face pressures from rapid expansion, climate change, and social inequalities.

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs) have become an essential technology used in navigation, positioning, and timing applications in meteorology, environmental monitoring, disaster management, and space exploration.

What do rising temperatures and increasing extreme weather events mean for military readiness?

What if climate change isn t an environmental challenge, but an energy challenge?

Being a Sustainable Firm: Takeaways for a Sustainability-oriented Management addresses strategies and management issues related to the latest innovations in the field of sustainability.

In this book, Kim Vender examines China's leadership in climate change governance.

The Tank Cascade System (TCS) of Sri Lanka is a connected series of tanks organized within a micro-catchment of a dry zone landscape for storing, conveying, and utilizing water from a temporary stream.

Die durch Menschen verursachte Klimakrise zeigt sich immer dramatischer.

Urban Density Contextualized provides planners with the tools to understand, assess, and implement urban density successfully.

Pairing in-depth journalism with historical perspectives, this book makes a compelling case for a natural solution to the growing problem of flooding.

Gaia Wakes presents a compelling new framework for understanding the past, present, and future of our planet.

The first book-length exploration of climate-driven reproductive anxiety that places race and social justice at the center.

Shifts the conversation from abstract ';global warming' to the deeply human impacts of heatand how our efforts to keep cool have made the problem worse.

This book analyzes social capital and preparations for natural hazards in the Philippines.

Gaia Wakes presents a compelling new framework for understanding the past, present, and future of our planet.

Urban Density Contextualized provides planners with the tools to understand, assess, and implement urban density successfully.

The Tank Cascade System (TCS) of Sri Lanka is a connected series of tanks organized within a micro-catchment of a dry zone landscape for storing, conveying, and utilizing water from a temporary stream.

Written with clarity, tenacity, humor, and warmth, A Hundred Little Pieces on the End of the World attempts to find tolerable ethical positions in the face of barely tolerable events-and the real possibility of an intolerable future.

'A bold, ambitious and truly wonderful history of the world' Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees'A fascinating story and a crucial revision of the momentous importance of tropical forests to human history' Lewis Dartnell, author of Origins_________________________ Jungle tells the remarkable story of the world's tropical forests, from the arrival of the first plants millions of years ago to the role of tropical forests in the evolution of the world's atmosphere, the dinosaurs, the first mammals and even our own species and ancestors.

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The essential account of geopolitics right now, from one of our greatest living intellectuals - including a new afterword on President Donald Trump Noam Chomsky: philosopher, political writer, fearless activist.

Because We Say So is Noam Chomsky's essential counter punch to American hegemony.

The Shape of the Beast is our world laid bare by a mind that has consistently and unhesitatingly engaged with its changing realities and often anticipated the way things have moved in the last decade.

The essential guide to Chomsky and his brilliant ideas on the global state of affairsAn extraordinary collection of Chomsky's speeches and his interviews with David Barsamian, edited by Arthur Naiman.

Revisiting the most important topic of our time.

Asperger's Syndrome is a complicated condition that is often misunderstood and misdiagnosed.

With glaciers melting, oceans growing more acidic, species dying out, and catastrophic events like Hurricane Katrina ever more probable, strong steps must be taken now to slow global warming.

Exploring the science behind climate change has never been easierCombining bold graphics with easy-to-understand text, Simply Climate Change is an essential introduction to the subject for those who are short of time but hungry for knowledge.