Climate change

"e;Urban Climate Change Adaptation"e; is a timely and informative book that delves into the complex challenges posed by climate change and explores the pathways to achieving environmental sustainability.

Global climate change creates new challenges in particular for cities and regions.

This title, first published in 1987, provides an authoritative account of both the science and the politics of acid rain.

This book critically analyses how diverse Parties and non-Party stakeholders (such as subnational governments, cities, states, foundations, NGOs, civil society, multilateral organizations, and the private sector) promote climate actions through linguistic and visual symbols across multiple platforms, unveiling the underlying ideologies within these discourses.

It's in our food, our cosmetics, our fuel and our bodies.

Green European addresses the quest for a better understanding of European type(s) of environmentalism.

Teaching Climate Change: Science, Stories, Justice shows educators how climate change can be taught from any disciplinary perspective and in a transdisciplinary way, drawing on examples from the author's own classroom.

The climate change crisis is the greatest challenge humanity has ever confronted.

This volume explores whether theatre pedagogy can and should be transformed in response to the global climate crisis.

Climate change not only involves rising temperatures but it can also alter the hydro-meteorological parameters of a region and the corresponding changes emerging in the various biotic or abiotic environmental features.

We live in a moment rife with mixed emotions-existential anxieties about catastrophic climate change, presumptuous confidence in planet-hacking geoengineering technologies, and hopefulness of youth climate activism.

This book addresses how water supply systems can be planned, designed, and managed for sustainability by presenting unique approaches and methodologies in rural drinking water supply schemes.

This new book presents an abundance of important information and case studies that deal with bamboo farming and its effects from and on climate change adaptation and mitigation.

Climate Change as Social Drama looks at the cultural sociology of climate change in public communication.

The vast majority of the world's population lives on or near the coast.

Environmental sustainability efforts require a great deal of engagement and political will, ranging from local communities to state departments.

This book discusses the challenges related to climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Climate change confronts us with our most pressing challenges today.

This book explains the science of climate change in plain language and shows that the 2 to 4 percent of climate scientists who are skeptical that humans are the main cause of global warming are a fringe minority-and have a well-established history of being wrong.

How knowing the extreme risks of climate change can help us prepare for an uncertain futureIf you had a 10 percent chance of having a fatal car accident, you'd take necessary precautions.

This book critically explores how the water-energy-food nexus can be used as an organising framework to address environmental degradation and promote sustainable development.

The Climate Change Debate: A Reference Handbook provides an in-depth look at climate change facts and statistics.

An examination of shifting global power dynamics in climate change politics, and how this affects our ability to achieve equitable and sustainable climate outcomes.

Junge Menschen brechen auf der Straße das Recht und berufen sich dabei auf das Klima-Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts, nach dem die Lebenden nicht das Recht haben, die Freiheit künftiger Generationen zu halbieren.

What kind of decision-making should multinationals engage in to create a sustainable company?

In the USA, politically conservative and right-wing apocalyptic evangelicals hold that climate change science and Covid-19 are fabrications governed by manifest evil.

This book concerns the urgency of thinking and acting in response to climate change through art and education.

This book intervenes in contemporary debates about climate activism, militancy, and strategy that have been gathering force in radical ecological circles.

The global economy and our way of life are based on the exploitation of fossil fuels, which not only threaten massive environmental and social disruption through global warming but, at present rates of consumption, will run out within decades, causing huge industrial dislocation and economic collapse.

This book defines regional climate leadership in East Asia and the Pacific as a novel addition to the climate leadership theory.

In recent years, natural gas has become a major source of energy, with trade across borders increasing through both pipelines and as Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG).

Originally published in 1985.

This book is intended to provide a hitherto missing English-language overview of a multi-year research project in which a comprehensive methodology was developed to assess a rule-based classification of the habitat services, the primary net biomass productivity and carbon sequestration capacity.

Flood hazards and the risks they present to human health are an increasing concern across the globe, in terms of lives, well-being and livelihoods, and the public resources needed to plan for, and deal with, the health impacts.

Climate change not only involves rising temperatures but it can also alter the hydro-meteorological parameters of a region and the corresponding changes emerging in the various biotic or abiotic environmental features.

Greta Thunberg, die junge Klimaaktivistin, die die Mächtigen das Fürchten lehrt – dies ist ihre ganz persönliche Geschichte.

Transport accounts for 23% of global carbon dioxide emissions and is one of the few industrial sectors where emissions are still growing.

A Climate Services Vision: First Steps Toward the Future describes the types of products that should be provided through a climate service; outlines the roles of the public, private, and academic sectors in a climate service; describe fundamental principles that should be followed in the provision of climate services; and describes potential audiences and providers of climate services.

After sweeping environmental legislation passed in the 1970s and 1980s, the 1990s ushered in an era when new legislation and reforms to existing laws were consistently caught up in a gridlock.

The debate on the physical limits and constraints to the economic growth of globalized society is now widespread.

Freshwater and Marine Ecology is an introduction to the field of aquatic ecology, integrating the conceptually and methodologically widely overlapping fields of limnology and biological oceanography.

A unique insider''s account of climate change and the diverse ways in which it is understood.

This book discusses growing environmental threats posed by air and water pollution, exploring their causes, impacts, and potential solutions.

If crisis defines our era, we need a coherent socialist policy in response.

Do you feel happier on a sunny day?

In the face of growing environmental challenges, including climate change and energy security, countries across the globe are developing new policies and programs to address these challenges, and China is no exception.

Climate change is the greatest issue of our time – and yet too often literature on the subject is considered only in the bracket of 'environmental' writing, divorced from culture, society and politics.

Isaiah Berlin is well known as a defender of liberal democracy in the Cold War.