Climate change

The atmosphere is getting fat on our carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions and it needs our help.

The concept of naturalness has largely disappeared from the academic discourse in general but also the particular field of environmental studies.

A unique, thought-provoking journey from early humans'' evolutionary response to climate change to today''s global crisis, for students and the general reader.

This book aims to provide a better understanding of how human cultures interact with climate change over an extended period of time.

Die konkreten gesellschaftlichen Folgen des Klimawandels sind sehr unsicher und nicht vorhersagbar.

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

The book provides an overview relevant to various biological mechanisms that regulate carbon exchanges between the major components and their response to climate change.

Reissuing works originally published between 1961 and 1990, this set of 12 books offers a selection of scholarship on the history of natural resources.

This dynamic multidisciplinary collection of essays examines the uncanny, eerie, wondrous, and dreaded dimensions of oceans, seas, waterways, and watery forms of the oceanic South, a haunted global precinct stretching across the Pacific, Southern and Indian Oceans, and around Australasia, Oceania, Aotearoa New Zealand, and South Africa.

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

Explores the shaping of China and India''s energy and climate policies by two-level pressures characterized as wealth, status and asymmetrical interdependence.

This book studies the role of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as an advocate for greater environmental responsibility and analyses the major achievements and outcomes of two landmark conferences - Stockholm (1972) and Rio (1992) - which set the agenda for the future role of the UNEP.

This New Naturalist volume provides a much-anticipated overview of these fascinating birds - the first book on the natural history of British and Irish terns since 1934.

A renowned climatologist—and political conservative—assesses current scientific understanding of climate change and sounds a call to action.

If the detrimental impacts of human-induced climate change continue to mount, technologies for geoengineering our climate - i.

This collection of reflective, critical, philosophical, and practical chapters represents the author's 60 years as a veterinarian, ethologist, and bioethicist.

This revealing book synthesizes research from many fields to offer the first complete history of the roles played by weather and climate in American life from colonial times to the present.

Provides guidelines for assessing the sustainability of urban systems including theory, methods and case studies.

This book explores the issue of energy poverty in post-communist Europe and shows how it is viewed and addressed through public policies.

A synthesis of the environmental and climatic history of every major desert and desert margin, for researchers and advanced students.

This book explores how and why innovative climate policies spread across subnational regions and between governance levels in China.

This volume examines case studies on EU countries' policy to combat climate change, examining the constraints of and opportunities for the implementation of climate change strategies in these countries.

This volume studies the challenges of climate change in South Asia and examines the role of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) in addressing them.

The moral values and interpretive systems of religions are crucially involved in how people imagine the challenges of sustainability and how societies mobilize to enhance ecosystem resilience and human well-being.

This book compares how governments in 192 countries perceive climate change related health risks and which measures they undertake to protect their populations.

The One Planet Life demonstrates a path for everyone towards a way of life in which we don't act as if we had more than one planet Earth.

This edited collection brings together a selection of expert authors and draws on a wide range of case studies, geographies, and perspectives to explore the links between forced migration and energy access.

This book provides an accessible and critical appraisal of Australia's regional energy transition initiatives.

When the Nuclear Safety Commission in Japan reviewed safety-design guidelines for nuclear plants in 1990, the regulatory agency explicitly ruled out the need to consider prolonged AC power loss.

Heat islands are urban and suburban areas that are significantly warmer than their surroundings.

This textbook provides readers with the fundamentals and the intent of environmental regulations so that compliance can be greatly improved and streamlined.

During the last few years, Greece has become a subject of increasing attention worldwide.

Climate Change and Coastal Tourism includes case studies on climate change and coastal tourism that explore current threats to, and consequences of, climate change on existing tourism coastal destinations.

In the teeth of climate emergency, hope has to remain possible, because life insists on it.

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

Urban Climate Change and Heat Islands: Characterization, Impacts, and Mitigation serves as a go to reference for a foundational understanding of urban-climate drivers and impacts.

This book explores urban environments and their impact on resilience, livability, climate adaptation, health, and societal well-being.

Environmental problems - particularly climate change - have become increasingly important to governments and social researchers in recent decades.

This is the first book to describe the ecology of high latitude lakes, rivers and glacial environments in both the North and South polar regions.

This book presents research from across the globe on how gender relationships in agriculture are changing.

Changing Cold Environments; Implications for Global Climate Change is a comprehensive overview of the changing nature of the physical attributes of Canada's cold environments and the implications of these changes to cold environments on a global scale.

A leading economist develops a supply-side approach to fighting climate change that encourages resource owners to leave more of their fossil carbon underground.

What if we could love the planet as much as we love one another?

"e;Disasters cause economic as well as human losses.

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.

This book highlights the importance of palynology in understanding floral biodiversity, paleoclimate and depositional environments in deep time and recent sediments.