Climate change

This book is the first resource to review the influence of climate change on urban and public pests such as mosquitoes, flies, ticks, and wood pests, with respect to population, distribution, disease, damage and control.

The Protection of Green Spaces for Climate Change Adaptation identifies how spatial planning and climate change adaptation are linked by examining the protection of green spaces in cities across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South America and Australia.

Epigenetics encompasses all changes in gene expression that occur without alterations to the DNA sequence.

Climate Crisis Economics: A Race of Tipping Points draws on economics, political economy, scientific literature, and data to gauge the extent to which our various communities - political, economic, and business - are making the essential leap to a new narrative and policy approach that will accelerate us towards the necessary transition to a decarbonised economy and sustainable future.

Being a teen or tween is tough for anyone.

This book explores the emergence of ecological sustainability as a new EU policy and legal objective, distinct and autonomous from sustainable development.

This book examines the impact of climate change on eye disease and eye health.

This book explores how the concept or urban experimentation is being used to reshape practices of knowledge production in urban debates about resilience, climate change governance, and socio-technical transitions.

Employing scientific explanations and hard data, this book shows why coal is such a problem, how the pro-coal forces got to be so powerful, and how those forces might be defeated through political activism.

The transition to secondary school can be a daunting time for parents of autistic youngsters, as well as children themselves.

Over the last decade, policies and financing decisions aiming to support low carbon resilient development within the least developed countries have been implemented across several regions.

A severe thunderstorm morphs into a tornado that cuts a swath of destruction through Oklahoma.

Anthropogenic activity has clearly altered the N cycle contributing (among other factors) to climate change.

Practising Immanence: Living with Theory and Environmental Education makes creative contributions to both qualitative inquiry and environmental education by exploring how each of these ideas seep and fuse into one another, creating a space where methodology becomes pedagogy, and where each of these is already always environmental: indivisible with life.

El Nino has been with us for centuries, but now we can forcast it, and thus can prepare far in advance for the extreme climatic events it brings.

To enhance sustainable development research and practice the values of the researchers, project managers and participants must first be made explicit.

Employing scientific explanations and hard data, this book shows why coal is such a problem, how the pro-coal forces got to be so powerful, and how those forces might be defeated through political activism.

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Climate change has been fueling migration, and, according to some policy reports, there could more than one billion climate migrants/refugees across the world by 2050.

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.

Nourished by fears of global warming and climate change, water has become an issue of international concern.

This collection sheds new light on the key ethical issues of climate change justice.

Transforming Futures: Navigating Society, Environment, and Governance holds profound relevance amidst ongoing discussions concerning sustainability and environmental preservation.

Explains how communities and ecosystems everywhere can be strengthened to survive climate chaos.

This book delves into Europe's urgent quest for energy independence as a foundation for the EU and national sovereignty, economic resilience and climate leadership.

As negotiations proceed for the post-Kyoto climate change regime, major obstacles stand in the path to their successful completion.

Menschen mit Autismus haben trotz ihrer offensichtlichen Stärken oft Schwierigkeiten, sich in der Gesellschaft zu behaupten.

This book originates from a recognition of the urgent necessity to unravel the intricate connections between pesticides and the evolving climate.

Discusses how G20, IMF and OECD have addressed climate finance and fossil fuel subsidies, including consequences for climate politics.

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Originally published in 1961.

A bold, visionary, and mind-bending exploration of how the geometry of chaos can explain our uncertain world-from weather and pandemics to quantum physics and free will Covering a breathtaking range of topics from climate change to the foundations of quantum physics, from economic modelling to conflict prediction, from free will to consciousness and spirituality The Primacy of Doubt takes us on a unique journey through the science of uncertainty.

Amidst growing environmental concerns worldwide, Japan is seen as particularly vulnerable to the effects of changing climate.

This book will inspire and spark grassroots action to address the inequitable impacts of climate change, by showing how this can be tackled and the many benefits of doing so.

Practical guide for transport policymakers and planners to achieve low-carbon land transport systems.

The year 2009 will be pivotal for Earth's climate.

Can contemporary democratic governments tackle climate crisis?

This book discusses how climate change needs to be anchored in indigenous knowledge with reference to resource management, infrastructure, livelihoods, and social institutions, with a unique focus on risks and provenances of resilience available to the local communities.

Freshwater scarcity is a critical challenge, with social, economic, political and environmental consequences.

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The Myth of Development boldly states that the benefits of development, so long promised over the past sixty years, have not come about for most people.

In this study, the award-winning environmental analyst Lester Brown and his colleagues have charted progress in building the eco-economy - an economy in harmony with the Earth's ecosystems, not undermining them.

Originally published in 1988.

This book assesses the capacity of the rural populace in terms of their ability to perceive a change in climatic variables and, if so, how they react to these changes in order to minimize the adverse effect of climate change.

Complying with the forthcoming tightening of CO2 emission allocations in the EU may mean big bills for the industries affected.

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

The 2014 International Conference on Energy and Environment (ICEE 2014) was held June 26-27 in Beijing, China.

Brings scientists, policy makers, land and water managers and citizen stakeholders together to resolve natural resource and environmental problems.