Climate change

Advanced Modelling Techniques Studying Global Changes in Environmental Sciences discusses the need for immediate and effective action, guided by a scientific understanding of ecosystem function, to alleviate current pressures on the environment.

This book explores the relationship between urban form and greenhouse gas emissions in China, providing new insights for policy, urban planning and management.

In recent years, 'environmental collapse' has become an important way of framing and imagining environmental change and destruction, referencing issues such as climate change, species extinction and deteriorating ecosystems.

A comprehensive and accessible introduction, as well as an original contribution, to the main philosophical issues raised by climate science.

This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art review of leading research on climate change communication.

Global climate change policy has failed us all, but what is the reasoning that underlies this failure?

This book provides a benchmark study of southern African landscape evolution during the Quaternary, for researchers, professionals and policymakers.

This book goes beyond current ways that the impact of climate change upon the city are understood.

The Arctic region contains large amounts of natural resources considered necessary to sustain global economic growth, so it is unsurprising that it is increasingly susceptible to political, economic, environmental, and even military conflicts.

An introduction to the conservation and utilisation of plant genetic diversity, with a focus on sustaining global food security.

Human-induced climate change is emerging as one of the gravest threats to biodiversity in history, and while a vast amount of literature on the ecological impact of climate change exists, very little has been dedicated to the management of wildlife populations and communities in the wake of unprecedented habitat changes.

Managing the vast energy resources, addressing the health and environmental impacts of energy production, and understanding the role of public lands in mitigating climate change are just a few of the critical issues discussed in this book.

This series of reflective accounts explores the benefits that Buddhist practice can bring for autistic individuals, and outlines how Dharma teachers, centre directors and meditation group leaders can help ensure sessions are truly autism sensitive.

During the last few decades, China has accomplished unprecedented economic growth and has emerged as the second largest economy in the world.

This book tackles the future challenges and opportunities for planning our cities and towns in a changing climate and recommends key actions for more resilient urban futures.

Problematizing the aims of education in the Anthropocene, this text illustrates the value of relational psychoanalytic theory in the study and practice of education amidst the climate crisis.

The current policy for climate change prioritises mitigation over adaptation.

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.

As water's significance as a geopolitical resource is poised to surpass that of oil, this book explores the adaptation of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) services in the Middle East to climate change challenges, leveraging the Humanitarian-Development-Peace nexus for a sustainable transition and resilient solutions.

Ecosystems are often examined from a ecological perspective because of the importance of biodiversity and ecosystem services.

Written for researchers and graduate students, this book explores the different processes through which corporations engage with climate change.

The book provides information on the observational aspects of the severe storms through satellite, radar, aircraft, and ground based network of stations and these issues are discussed in the first part of the book consisting of 8 chapters.

Ways of handling climate change vary worldwide.

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The National Research Council's Committee on Atmospheric Chemistry (NRC/CAC) was established to serve as a focal point for NRC activities on issues related to atmospheric chemical change and its impacts on air quality, climate, stratospheric ozone depletion, and other related issues.

RECIPIENT OF THE 2018 IZZY AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM Every so often a book comes along that can dramatically change, or elevate, one's thinking about a global problem.

This book compares how the social consequences of climate change are similarly unevenly distributed within China and the United States, despite different political systems.

This edited volume provides both a broad overview of cooperation patterns in the UNFCCC climate change negotiations and an in-depth analysis of specific coalitions and their relations.

Low carbon technology transfer to developing countries has been both a lynchpin of, and a key stumbling block to a global deal on climate change.

'Understanding how complex ecological and climatic change can influence human health is the new challenge before us.

Urban communities around the world face increased stress from natural disasters linked to climate change, and other urban pressures.

This book critiques modern museologies and curatorial practices that have been complicit in emerging existential crises.

Through a combination of theoretical and empirical approaches, this book explores the role of international environmental law in protecting and conserving plants.

Taking the case of the Norwegian petroleum industry as its vantage point, the book discusses the question of industrial transformations in resource-based industries.

This topic is central to contemporary concerns for more sustainable agricultural development.

This book focuses on China's efforts to address climate change on both the strategic and practical levels since the Katowice Climate Change Conference.

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

Past Antarctica: Paleoclimatology and Climate Change presents research on the past and present of Antarctica in reference to its current condition, including considerations for effects due to climate change.

Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review remains one of the most cited sources in marine science.

Global Climate Change and Terrestrial Invertebrates Invertebrates perform such vital roles in global ecosystems and so strongly influence human wellbeing that biologist E.

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Across contemporary Asia, each day dawns with a new story about living in an era of profound environmental change.

Legal mechanisms for the management, development and protection of water resources have evolved over the years and have reached unprecedented levels of complexity and sophistication.

'A truly fascinating must-read' - Elinor Cleghorn, bestselling author of Unwell Women'Powerful and well-researched.

The ethics of climate governance is of critical importance to current debates in climate justice, yet until now it has been largely neglected.

This book provides a systematic introduction to the debate on historical emissions and climate change, for students, researchers and policymakers.

Comprehensive overview of research on clouds and their role in our present and future climate, for advanced students and researchers.