Climate change

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) has emerged rapidly as a crucial technological option for decarbonising electricity supply and mitigating climate change.

Many people today experience the climate crisis with a divided state of mind: aware of the extreme effects, but living everyday life as if the crisis is not actually happening.

This book analyzes different perspectives around sustainable development, risk management and managing demand across various sectors in India.

This book offers a timely exploration of how climate change manifests in the global workplace.

In a world gripped by an ever-worsening ecological crisis there are present and increasing genocidal pressures on many culturally distinct social groups, such as indigenous peoples.

This book presents essential insights on the interaction between rising risks and raising the bar for resilience during the climate crisis.

Offers hope for beating climate change by highlighting moments in history in which humans have successfully reversed environmental damage.

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

How technological advances and colonial fears inspired utopian geoengineering projects during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries From the 1870s to the mid-twentieth century, European explorers, climatologists, colonial officials, and planners were avidly interested in large-scale projects that might actively alter the climate.

To understand the global warming mechanism, global mapping of primary production was carried out under the GCMAPS program.

Degrowth is a rejection of the illusion of growth and a call to repoliticize the public debate colonized by the idiom of economism.

This book discusses emerging contexts of global warming and climate change, agricultural vulnerability and adaptation from local to global scale.

The Routledge Handbook of Energy Transitions draws upon a unique and multidisciplinary network of experts from around the world to explore the expanding field of energy transitions.

How much of the folk tales of our ancestors is rooted in fact, and what can they tell us about the future?

Winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Titles of 2010 award.

This book lifts the taboo on maladaptation, a different driver of environmentally induced migration, which shines a light on the negative consequences arising from the solutions to climate change, adaptation and mitigation policies.

Sustainability Principles and Practice gives an accessible and comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of sustainability.

Looking to tackle climate change and climate science in your classroom?

The book advances knowledge about climate change adaptation practices through a series of case studies.

This book focuses on the traditional ecological knowledge in addressing the current climate crisis in the Indian Himalayas.

This book breaks new ground in the studies of green transition.

As more and more people inhabit the Earth and live longer on it, Super Cities will explode with populations of 20, 30, even 100 millions or more.

This book offers new perspectives on how social and political institutions can respond more effectively to climate change.

This book delves into the anthropogenic activities responsible for environmental hazards, their compensation, and potential mitigation strategies.

The governance and evaluation of 'megaprojects' - that is, large-scale, complex, high-stakes infrastructure projects usually commissioned by governments and delivered through partnerships between public and private organisations - is receiving increased attention.

Sustainability Communication across Asia distils the core components of environmental communication in the diverse milieu of Asian nations such as Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and China.

In recent years, interest in climate change has rapidly increased in the social sciences and yet there is still relatively little published material in the field that seeks to understand the development of climate change as a perceived social problem.

This volume examines how international cooperation can support implementation of domestic climate policies in developing countries.

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.

This book presents research findings and conclusions that has been developed as algorithms or intelligent new methods solving problems in the fields of air pollution, climate and health, natural hazards and risks, water resources, human activities and management and informatics, remote sensing, high-performance computing and GIS for environmental monitoring and management.

An accessible overview of the statistical analysis methods which can be used to investigate climate extremes and analyse potential risk.

The book deepens understanding of biomass sources and technologies used for cooking worldwide.

This book highlights China's theoretical advances and practical actions toward climate risk prevention in 2019.

In response to a request from Congress, Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years assesses the state of scientific efforts to reconstruct surface temperature records for Earth during approximately the last 2,000 years and the implications of these efforts for our understanding of global climate change.

Winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Titles of 2010 award.

This book highlights the challenges faced by renewable energy enterprises (REEs) in emerging markets, by reflecting on the enterprises' own stories and experiences.

Tackling one of the most controversial subjects of our time, one of the world's foremost environmental and petroleum engineers explores the potential causes and ramifications of global climate change.

It's time to rewild ourselves and our dominant worldviews to build Earth-centered communities for allThese pages summon from our bones our commitment to defend this living Earth.

Within only a few years, global warming has emerged from scientific speculation into an environmental threat of worldwide concern.

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

Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change is a fundamental resource for primary industry professionals, land managers, policy makers, researchers and students involved in preparing Australia’s primary industries for the challenges and opportunities of climate change.

Drawing on cutting-edge research from leading scholars, this book investigates state preferences for regime creation and assesses state capacity for executing these preferences in Northeast Asia's energy domain, defined as the geographical area comprising the following countries: Russia, Mongolia, China, Japan, South Korea and North Korea.

Originally published in 1987.

Earth and its inhabitants face an unprecedented crisis--the human-caused destruction of the planet's life support systems.

In his investigation of the nature of madness and civilization, the French social theorist Michel Foucault expressed the difficulty most scholars have in addressing episodes of confusion that lead a society into acts of self-destruction and chaos.

This study, based on fieldwork and case studies of southeast Asian countries shows how privatization, investment and new energy technologies can be integrated to combat climate change and provide the maximum return for investors.

This book examines the history of creative applications of photovoltaic (PV) solar power, including sound art, wearable technology, public art, industrial design, digital media, building integrated design, and many others.