Climate change

The Science of Global Warming Remediation examines the workings of a complex chemical system using concepts such as chemical kinetics, thermodynamics, and oxidation/reduction.

This book describes how local consumption, particularly in urban areas, is increasingly met by global supply chains.

The report reviews a draft strategic plan from the U.

This book examines the threat posed by climate change to the low-lying islands of Tuvalu through a lens of what it means to be a neighbour.

Maize is one of the most generally grown cereal crops at global level, followed by wheat and rice.

The global response to climate change will demand unprecedented international cooperation, deep economic transformation and resource transfers at a significant scale.

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing human kind owing to the great uncertainty regarding future impacts, which affect all regions and many ecosystems.

Australia is in peril.

Renewable energy has never been more important than it is today, as climate change becomes arguably the world's most essential problem to be solved.

Faced with worsening environmental indicators, cooperation hurdles, and the limited effectiveness of current institutions, reforming international environmental governance has proven elusive, despite various diplomatic initiatives at the United Nations level over the last two decades.

Despite the findings on global climate change presented by the scientific community, there remains a significant gap between its recommendations and the actions of the public and policy makers.

The EU emissions trading scheme is the largest emissions control scheme in the world, capping almost half of European CO2 emissions.

This book explores the connections between two of the most transformative processes of the twenty-first century, namely climate change and globalization.

Twice exceptionality (2e) is not well understood.

In this strikingly honest collection, developed from a pioneering new research project, autistic teachers and other autistic school professionals share their stories of the challenges and successes of their careers.

Climate change is a lived experience of changes in the environment, often destroying conventional forms of subsistence and production, creating new patterns of movement and connection, and transforming people's imagined future.

This contributed volume describes management practices based on interdisciplinary and convergence science approaches from different disciplines of agricultural science to enhance the resilience of dryland agriculture.

In this ready reference, a global team of experts comprehensively cover molecular and cell biology-based approaches to the impact of increasing global temperatures on crop productivity.

THE TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023A BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK FOR THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT AND FINANCIAL TIMESA BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK | AN INSTANT #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Humanity has transformed the Earth: Frankopan transforms our understanding of history' Financial Times'Vast, learned and timely work' Sunday Times------From the international bestselling author of The Silk Roads comes a major history of how a changing climate has dramatically shaped the development-and demise-of civilisations across time.

This book provides the first systematic critique of the concept of climate change adaptation within the field of international development.

The climate problem is getting worse, but the solutions are getting better.

Drought is one of the likely consequences of climate change in many regions of the world.

This edited volume brings together critical research on climate change adaptation discourses, policies, and practices from a multi-disciplinary perspective.

Introduction to Emergency Management sets the standard for excellence in the field and has educated a generation of emergency managers.

This volume explores interactions between academia and different societal stakeholders with a focus on sustainability.

This volume discusses important issues associated with agricultural disaster risk, resilient agriculture, and livelihood.

This book focuses on the two intra-regional initiatives created for the development and integration of energy markets: the Energy Community and MedReg.

The Kyoto Protocol, the world's first tentative step towards avoiding the threat of climate change, has failed.

This book offers recent insights into some of the burning issues of our times: climate change, exposure to chemicals, refugee issues and the ecological harm that accompanies conflict situations.

During the past decade, skepticism about climate change has frustrated those seeking to engage broad publics and motivate them to take action on the issue.

The rise of emerging economies represents a challenge to traditional global power balances and raises the question of how we can combine sustainability with continued economic growth.

Evaluating Climate Change Impacts discusses assessing and quantifying climate change and its impacts from a multi-faceted perspective of ecosystem, social, and infrastructure resilience, given through a lens of statistics and data science.

Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas and is estimated to be responsible for approximately one-fifth of man-made global warming.

It is now well accepted that deforestation is a key source of greenhouse gas emissions and of climate change, with forests representing major sinks for carbon.

How the dirt below our feet can save us from extinction.

This book brings together a team of renowned social scientists to ask not why climate change is happening, but how we might learn from its human dimensions to raise public and political will to fight against the climate crisis.

High speed rail (HSR) is being touted as a strategic investment for connecting people across regions, while also fostering prosperity and smart urban growth.

Sociological literature tends to view the social categories of race, class and gender as distinct and has avoided discussing how multiple intersections inform and contribute to experiences of injustice and inequity.

The baby boom generation were born between 1946 and 1964 and are the largest population cohort in US history.

Renewable energy is important as a substitute for finite fossil fuels and inflexible nuclear power and could conceivably power the world.

A non-heated discussion on global warming and climate changeInterested in getting to the core of the reasons for the Earth's changing climate?

Too often amongst policy makers and thought leaders an assumption is made that we must make a choice between tackling climate change and having a strong economy; tackling climate change and allowing poorer nations to develop; tackling climate change and having a secure energy system.

The countries that make up the MENA region display wide diversity.

According to UN estimates, approximately nearly half of the world's population now lives in cities and that figure is expected to rise to almost 70% by 2050.

When it comes to parenting a child with a hidden disability, everyone seems to have an opinion.

Advances in Carbon Management Technologiescomprises 43 chapters contributed by experts from all over the world.

The economic operating system keeps crashing.