Climate change

Moving beyond most conventional thinking about energy security in Europe which revolves around stability of supplies and the reliability of suppliers, this book presents the history of European policy-making regarding energy resources, including recent controversies about shale gas and fracking.

Elegant, novel explanation of climate change, emphasizing physical understanding and concepts, while avoiding complex mathematics, supported by excellent color illustrations.

This book analyses energy transitions and the opportunities and challenges for building sustainable energy systems to improve human capabilities while protecting the environment.

The market and policy impetus to install increasingly utility-scale solar systems, or solar farms (sometimes known as solar parks or ranches), has seen products and applications develop ahead of the collective industry knowledge and experience.

This Element considers selenium isotopes as a paleoenvironmental tracers and what we can learn from isotopic fractionations.

Evidence-Based Climate Science: Data Opposing CO2 Emissions as the Primary Source of Global Warming, Second Edition, includes updated data related to the causes of global climate change from experts in meteorology, geology, atmospheric physics, solar physics, geophysics, climatology, and computer modeling.

Without the effective participation of developing Asia, a climate crisis is certain.

Updated textbook on climate change for courses in meteorology, oceanography, environmental science, earth science and geography.

This book applies a critical perspective to anthropogenic climate change and the global socio-ecological crisis.

The book covers a range of topics including the historical evolution and present landscape of Brazilian environmental law; fundamental principles of environmental law; environmental constitutionalism in Brazil; the legal framework governing environmental assets; animal protection and rights; environmental federalism; national environmental policy; administrative tools for environmental regulation; civil and criminal environmental liability; judicial interpretations of environmental law; specially protected areas; climate change legislation and litigation; and water resource management.

How is a changing climate affecting hurricanes, and how are these changes intersecting with our changing exposure and vulnerability in ways that affect tropical cyclone risk?

For decades, Hermann Scheer was one of the world's leading proponents of renewable energy.

This book tells the story of visionary urban experiments, shedding light on the theories that preceded their development and on the monsters that followed and might be the end of our cities.

Emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels have ushered in a new epoch where human activities will largely determine the evolution of Earth's climate.

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of recent trends of green science and technology.

Examines the politics shaping whether, how and to what extent cities engage in global climate governance.

The world population is steadily increases with high rate in the past decade from 7,126 billion inhibitors in 2012 to 8,095 billion inhibitors in 2024, with 14% increase.

Climate change is not just an environmental problem, its a human one.

Two major challenges to continued global food security are the ever increasing demand for food products, and the unprecedented abiotic stresses that crops face due to climate change.

Antarctica is the center from which all surrounding continental bodies separated millions of years ago.

Climate change vulnerability assessment is a rapidly developing field.

This is the decade for climate action.

Mit seinem Begriff der »Scheinmündigkeit« platzt der Kulturanthropologe Dieter Schimang mitten hinein in die große Party, die die Aufklärung seit dem 18.

This IPCC Special Report provides a comprehensive, up-to-date scientific assessment of the interactions between climate change and land.

This book is the second volume in a series on montology dedicated to the transdisciplinary reflection of mountain research, considering the diversity of views on mountains and their problemata in the context of rapid technological development and unprecedented accumulation and dissemination of information around the world.

Douglas Barnes and his team of development experts provide an essential guide that can help improve the quality of life to the estimated 1.

Interfuel substitution is an issue that is - and will likely remain - an important topic of inquiry for many years, as governments around the world seek to set policies that are intended to restrain carbon emissions or steer economies toward or away from certain fuels.

This book considers how basic income could be used as a mechanism for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in African agrarian societies.

Water Quality in the Third Pole: The Roles of Climate Change and Human Activities offers in-depth coverage of water quality issues (natural and human-related), the monitoring of contaminants, and the remediation of water contamination.

Posthuman Personhood takes up the ethical challenge posed by Francis Fukuyama's work, Our Posthuman Future.

The European Union has long played a leadership role in the global response to climate change, including the development and dissemination of climate-friendly technologies such as renewable energy.

The 2015 Paris Agreement marked a turning point in the global community's response to climate change.

Drawing from the unique context and climate of the Himalaya, this book highlights several innovative design interventions, shaped by a myriad of social, cultural, environmental, and political factors that have been employed in villages to combat climate change.

What is sustainability?

The Routledge Handbook of Private Law and Sustainability reflects on how the law can help tackle the current environmental challenges and make our societies more resilient to future crises.

Planning for Resilient Small and Medium-Sized Cities in Ghana explores the resilience and planning dynamics and complexities of rapid urban transitions in Ghana's small and medium-sized cities (SMCs) and their implications for Africa and the Global South.

This book provides new insights into the mechanisms of plant hormone-mediated growth regulation and stress tolerance covering the most recent biochemical, physiological, genetic, and molecular studies.

Corporate Governance and the Nuclear Industry explores the UK nuclear Legacy - governance issues associated with the decommissioning of a range of early-generation civil nuclear facilities.

Exploring Food and Urbanism looks at the ways food and cities interconnect in a diversity of places across the globe.

In an urbanizing world, the majority of people live in urban settlements predominantly on the coastal edge.

Climate change is modifying, in varying measure, the coastal geography of States.

This book highlights the impact of climate change on the soil microbiome and its subsequent effects on plant health, soil-plant dynamics, and the ecosphere.

A quantitative, broad, hands-on introduction to the cutting-edge science of global warmingThis textbook introduces undergraduates to the concepts and methods of global warming science, covering topics that they encounter in the news, ranging from the greenhouse effect and warming to ocean acidification, hurricanes, extreme precipitation, droughts, heat waves, forest fires, the cryosphere, and more.

This book reflects on Indonesia's recent experience with REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation), all set within a broader discussion of neoliberal environmentalism, hyper-capitalism, and Indonesian carbon politics.

The TOGA (Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere) Program was designed to study short-term climate variations.

This book indicates the most optimal solutions for the growing civilization problem related to climate change that takes place more and more rapidly on our planet.

Our house is on fire - it's time to wake up to the climate crisis facing planet Earth before it's too late.