Climate change

Since becoming formally established with an international academic society in the late 1980s, ecological economics has advanced understanding of the interactions between social and biophysical reality.

Microgeneration - producing energy for the home, in the home - is a substantial improvement over the current centralised and detached energy model employed the world over.

This contributed book, as a part of a series of CERES publications, provides a multi-regional and cross-sectoral analysis of the interlinkages, challenges, and emerging responses in the areas of water security, climate change, and food systems, especially in a context marked by severe implications of the COVID-19 pandemic, increased climate vulnerability of many regions already water stressed, and an ambitious global action aiming at curbing climate change and restoring ecosystem.

This book covers several innovative alternative livelihoods based on mangrove floral resources with their respective SWOT analysis.

The book explores the available omics resources, the integration of multi-omics data, and systems biology methods, focusing on their applications in cereals breeding and research.

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

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

Greentopia: Utopian Thought in the Anthropocene provides new ways of imagining  the future interface between society and non-human nature and brings into focus the possibility of a peaceful coexistence.

Climate change is increasingly a part of the human experience.

The interaction of sustainability governance and global value chains has crucial implications the world over.

This book provides a theoretical framework and related technical skills for investigating climate change and its public health consequences and responses with a focus on urban settings, and in particular Hong Kong, a subtropical metropolis in Asia.

This book collates, reviews and synthesizes information on how soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks differ among major terrestrial biomes of the U.

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) and "e;negative emissions"e; technologies will play an essential role in mitigating the impact of global warming and meeting the temperature targets set by the IPCC and by COP21.

Urban Density Contextualized provides planners with the tools to understand, assess, and implement urban density successfully.

Hundreds of million tonnes of agricultural and food waste are produced each year around the world, most of which is just that, waste.

Adopting an interdisciplinary social science approach, this book examines community reactions to wind farms to form a new understanding of what facilitates social acceptance.

When first published in 1997, Factor Four: Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use by renowned economic and engineering experts Ernst von Weizsacker, Amory Lovins and L.

Humanities for the Environment, or HfE, is an ambitious project that from 2013-2015 was funded by a generous grant from the Andrew W.

Climate change is an enormous and increasingly urgent issue.

Nature has gone feral.

This book demonstrates the need to coordinate private and corporate actors with national and global sustainable climate policies, with conventions in the spheres of green energy laws, as well as from the spheres of commercial, trade, and other private law.

The Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC is the standard scientific reference on climate change for students, researchers and policy makers.

Against Catastrophism explores catastrophism from multiple vantage points and considers the impact of ongoing crisis on individuals.

Around the world, a growing number of businesses are taking steps to reduce their climate impact by managing their greenhouse gas emissions.

This volume of 30 chapters contributed by reputed authors covers: Diversification of livestock and crops.

The world is on the cusp of one and a half degrees of warming - just the rise it has committed itself to avoiding.

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

Minimising the most severe risks of climate change means ending societal dependence on fossil fuels, and radically improving the efficiency with which we use all energy sources.

Digitalizing Sustainability outlines why 'business as usual' isn't working and sets out five Transformational Forces which can be used to innovate and scale sustainability solutions using digital means.

Almost everyone agrees on the need to transition the global economy to net zero.

What might it look like for an Autistic, non-binary person who lives with mental illness to live well and with hope?

,Integrating intermittent renewable energy sources like wind into electricity systems must be one of the most misunderstood issues in energy policy.

This book presents stories of sustainability from communities in circumpolar regions as they grapple with environmental, economic and societal changes and challenges.

This new volume addresses the burning issues of the impact of climate change, the alteration of environmental quality, and subsequent mitigation and adaptation strategies through various agroecosystem practices, primarily in agroforestry.

In this urgent time, World on the Edge calls out the pivotal environmental issues and how to solve them now.

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

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 volume outlines the specific conditions and responses to climate change in India.

What is the answer to inspiring sustainable behaviour?

This book investigates the role of law in enabling and addressing the barriers to the development of off-grid renewable electricity (OGRE).

Transdisciplinary Journeys in the Anthropocene offers a new perspective on international environmental scholarship, focusing on the emotional and affective connections between human and nonhuman lives to reveal fresh connections between global issues of climate change, species extinction and colonisation.

Climate change is a cross-cutting, long-term, global problem that presents policymakers with many challenges in their efforts to respond to the issue.

Tracing scientific ideas about the structure of Earth, Global Warming creates an intellectual portrait of the shifts in thinking that have led to the current controversy, enabling readers to make up their own minds on this important issue.

Across the world, the risks of wildfires are increasing and expanding.

Ports are a vital part of the global economy, connecting the world through maritime transport networks, promoting international trade, and supporting global economic growth.

The notion of Endangerment stands at the heart of a network of concepts, values and practices dealing with objects and beings considered threatened by extinction, and with the procedures aimed at preserving them.

The authoritative assessment of the many climate change impacts on allergens and allergic diseases, for researchers, clinicians, students.

This book presents an inclusive approach to deal with plant stresses in light of recent technological advances.

This book explores the psychological impact of climate change on organisations and individuals, encouraging the reader to consider the ways in which they can take action to address this critical issue.