Climate change

Whilst the world's poor are clearly hit hardest by climate change impacts, so too do they hold many of the solutions for how best to cope with its impacts, and at times reduce greenhouse gas emissions to zero.

Deforestation in tropical rainforest countries is one of the largest contributors to human-induced climate change.

Rejecting the assumption that housing and cities are separate from nature, David Clapham advances a new research framework that integrates housing with the rest of the natural world.

Energy as a Sociotechnical Problem offers an innovative approach to equip interdisciplinary research on sociotechnical transitions with coherence and focus.

This book looks at the media's coverage of Climate Change and investigates its role in representing the complex realities of climate uncertainties and its effects on communities and the environment.

Enhancing Disaster Preparedness: From Humanitarian Architecture to Community Resilience relates to the fourth priority of the UNDRR's Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030.

What if urban planning and design were to prioritize rather than merely accommodate the unbuilt environment?

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the role of fossil-based economies in the global energy transition toward sustainability.

The integration of renewable energy resources into the electricity grid presents an important challenge.

This book emphasis the role of farm level adaptation as a key in developmental pathways that are challenged by climate risks in the semi-arid tropics of Asia and Africa.

Rapid changes in energy production and consumption are having major socioeconomic implications for the communities of rural America.

Originally published in 2000, The Arctic provides a comprehensive overview of the region's rapidly changing physical and human dimensions, and demonstrates the importance of communication between natural scientists, social scientists, and local stakeholders in response to the tremendous challenges and opportunities facing the Arctic.

Provides unique synthesis of various modeling methodologies used to aid planning and operational decision making, for academic researchers and professionals.

Landraces possess a very large genetic base in population structure and are dynamic populations of cultivated plants with historical origin, distinct identity, and without any formal crop improvement.

Written both for general readers and college students, Dialogues on Climate Justice provides an engaging philosophical introduction to climate justice, and should be of interest to anyone wanting to think seriously about the climate crisis.

For decades conservation has been based on the donor-driven principle.

This book provides a unique introduction to Bitcoin mining's energy use and environmental impacts.

Teaching Design for Sustainable Futures: Community, Construction, and Creativity explores how creativity can be integrated into sustainability education within the built environment.

Adverse climate impacts are already evident across Southern Africa and pose a serious threat to the development prospects of the region's societies.

Disasters have a widescale impact with drastic consequences on human lives, especially those who are marginalised by the wider society.

This book presents principles of animal biodiversity, its importance, sustainable utilization, and conservation.

This book addresses the major policy, economic and financial issues encountered in global forest carbon.

Energy risk and security have become topical matters in Western and international policy discussions; ranging from international climate change mitigation to investment in energy infrastructures to support economic growth and more sustainable energy provisions.

The response of the international community to the pressing socio-ecological problems has been framed around the concept of 'sustainable development'.

The 20th century has experienced environmental changes that appear to be unprecedented in their rate and magnitude during the Earth's history.

This book highlights processes, impacts and management practices of bamboo expansion occurring in areas where it is distributed around the world.

Uncertain Climes looks to the late nineteenth century to reveal how climate anxiety was a crucial element in the emergence of American modernity.

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

Environmental patriotism, the belief that the national environment defines a country's greatness, is a significant strand in twentieth century American environmentalism.

The carbon emissions generated by concrete and steel construction are well-known.

A call to action that promotes K12 schools and students as key contributors to climate solutions

The fixity or mobility of borders are key themes within the border studies literature and have useful critical application to urban and environmental planning through theory, pedagogy and practice.

Understanding Human Ecology offers a coherent conceptual framework for human ecology - a clear approach for understanding the many systems we are part of and for how we frame and understand the problems we face.

The term "e;climate justice"e; began to gain traction in the late 1990s following a wide range of activities by social and environmental justice movements that emerged in response to the operations of the fossil fuel industry and, later, to what their members saw as the failed global climate governance model that became so transparent at COP15 in Copenhagen.

This book confronts issues relating to climate change and sustainable development innovations in Asia, with attention to key issues and applications in terms of advocacy, governance, citizen science, tradition, faith, leadership, and education.

Originally published in 1990, The Biogeography of the British Isles is devoted to the biogeography of the British Isles and surrounding shelf seas.

The loss of biodiversity is a major environmental problem in nearly every terrestrial ecosystem on Earth.

The prevalence of natural disasters in recent years has highlighted the importance of preparing adequately for disasters and dealing efficiently with their consequences.

Australians are famous for our love of the coast, although in many places this 'love' has caused serious and often irreversible impacts.

Drawing on the work of leading researchers and practitioners from a range of disciplines, including economic geography, economics, economic history, finance, law, and public policy, this edited collection provides a comprehensive assessment of stranded assets and the environment, covering the fundamental issues and debates, including climate change and societal responses to environmental change, as well as its origins and theoretical basis.

Threats to the Arctic discusses all the current threats to this fragile region, emphasizing the interconnections between many environmental impacts, as well as the teleconnections between events already emerging in the Arctic (ocean circulation changes, melting of sea ice, glaciers and ice sheets) and other parts of the world.

The days of rationalist scientific management and deference to official data are behind us.

Solving the global climate crisis through local partnerships and experimentationGlobal climate diplomacy-from the Kyoto Protocol to the Paris Agreement-is not working.

Originally published in 1964 and revised in 1971.

This book shows how promoting clean energy technologies - from solar panels to electric cars - can end human-induced climate change.

Der Klimawandel ist einer der Hauptgründe für den prognostizierten weiteren Rückgang der weltweiten Biodiversität.

Originally published in 1989.

Corporate Social Responsibility in the Arctic considers the new trends and frontiers of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) studies that are shaping the future of global business strategy and ethics.

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.