Climate change

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring In the last few years global awareness of climate change has grown very rapidly - through the school strikes led by Greta Thunberg, groups like Extinction Rebellion, the IPCC's recent high impact reports, tv documentaries, and declarations from governments around the world that we are in a climate emergency.

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring In the last few years global awareness of climate change has grown very rapidly - through the school strikes led by Greta Thunberg, groups like Extinction Rebellion, the IPCC's recent high impact reports, tv documentaries, and declarations from governments around the world that we are in a climate emergency.

The deep ocean is by far the planet's largest biome and holds a wealth of potential natural assets.

Bloggers confessing that they waste food, non-governmental organizations naming corporations selling unsustainably harvested seafood, and veterans apologizing to Native Americans at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation for environmental and social devastation caused by the United States government all signal the existence of action-oriented guilt and identity-oriented shame about participation in environmental degradation.

Bloggers confessing that they waste food, non-governmental organizations naming corporations selling unsustainably harvested seafood, and veterans apologizing to Native Americans at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation for environmental and social devastation caused by the United States government all signal the existence of action-oriented guilt and identity-oriented shame about participation in environmental degradation.

The announcement by China that it will implement a national emissions trading scheme confirms the status of this instrument as the pre-eminent policy choice for mitigating climate change.

The announcement by China that it will implement a national emissions trading scheme confirms the status of this instrument as the pre-eminent policy choice for mitigating climate change.

This book applies a justice framework to analysis of the actual and potential role of international law with respect to people on the move in the context of anthropogenic climate change.

This book applies a justice framework to analysis of the actual and potential role of international law with respect to people on the move in the context of anthropogenic climate change.

Plants have profoundly moulded the Earth's climate and the evolutionary trajectory of life.

Plants have profoundly moulded the Earth's climate and the evolutionary trajectory of life.

Struggles over precious resources such as oil, water, and land are increasingly evident in the contemporary world.

Can contemporary democratic governments tackle climate crisis?

Can contemporary democratic governments tackle climate crisis?

Climate change is poised to threaten, disrupt, and transform human life, and the social, economic, and political institutions that structure it.

Climate change is poised to threaten, disrupt, and transform human life, and the social, economic, and political institutions that structure it.

In times of climate change and public debt, a concern for intergenerational justice should lead us to have a closer look at theories of intergenerational justice.

Climate change is a pressing international political issue, for which a practical but principled solution is urgently required.

To address climate change fairly, many conflicting claims over natural resources must be balanced against one another.

To address climate change fairly, many conflicting claims over natural resources must be balanced against one another.

The most important climate agreement in history, the Paris Agreement on Climate Change represents the commitment of the nations of the world to address and curb climate change.

The most important climate agreement in history, the Paris Agreement on Climate Change represents the commitment of the nations of the world to address and curb climate change.

From deciding the best day for a picnic, to the devastating effects of hurricanes and typhoons, the weather impacts our lives on a daily basis.

From deciding the best day for a picnic, to the devastating effects of hurricanes and typhoons, the weather impacts our lives on a daily basis.

Many of us take it for granted that we ought to cooperate to tackle climate change.

Now that so many ecosystems face rapid and major environmental change, the ability of species to respond to these changes by dispersing or moving between different patches of habitat can be crucial to ensuring their survival.

Now that so many ecosystems face rapid and major environmental change, the ability of species to respond to these changes by dispersing or moving between different patches of habitat can be crucial to ensuring their survival.

This book is an original, accessible, and thought-provoking introduction to the severe and broad-ranging challenges that climate change presents and how societies can respond.

Twenty thousand years ago our planet was an icehouse.

Twenty thousand years ago our planet was an icehouse.

Displacement caused by climate change is an area of growing concern.

Displacement caused by climate change is an area of growing concern.

The international framework for a climate change agreement is up for review as the initial Kyoto period to 2012 comes to an end.

Since 2005 the carbon market has grown to a value of nearly $100 billion per annum.

Since 2005 the carbon market has grown to a value of nearly $100 billion per annum.

The international framework for a climate change agreement is up for review as the initial Kyoto period to 2012 comes to an end.

This is the first book to describe the ecology of high latitude lakes, rivers and glacial environments in both the North and South polar regions.

Temperature profoundly impacts both the phenotypes and distributions of organisms.

The Arctic Tundra and adjacent Boreal Forest or Taiga support the most cold-adapted flora and fauna on Earth.

The Arctic Tundra and adjacent Boreal Forest or Taiga support the most cold-adapted flora and fauna on Earth.

Coral reefs represent the most spectacular and diverse marine ecosystem on the planet as well as a critical source of income for millions of people.

More than seventy percent of the earth's surface is covered by ocean - the home to a staggering and sometimes overwhelming diversity of organisms, a majority of which reside in pelagic form.

India is killing the Ganges, and the Ganges in turn is killing India.

India is killing the Ganges, and the Ganges in turn is killing India.

In times of climate change and public debt, a concern for intergenerational justice should lead us to have a closer look at theories of intergenerational justice.

The evidence presented in the recently released Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) suggests strongly that continued failure to make meaningful cuts to greenhouse gas emissions could bring about disastrous results for the human community, especially for future generations.

Climate change is a pressing international political issue, for which a practical but principled solution is urgently required.

This book examines the implications of geographical change for maritime jurisdiction under the law of the sea.

This book examines the implications of geographical change for maritime jurisdiction under the law of the sea.

Anthropogenic climate change poses a grave threat to societies around the world.