Climate change

This book, focuses on South and Southeast Asia, upgrades our understanding of the influence of multiple sociopolitical and governance factors on climate change and risks.

The Erice International Seminars are multidisciplinary seminars attended by over 100 eminent participants from all fields of science.

This book focuses on the robustness analysis of high accuracy surface modeling method (HASM) to yield good performance of it.

An examination of how a transnational coalition of firms and NGOs influenced the emergence of emissions trading as a central component of global climate governance.

Once imagined as a place on the very edge of the world, Greenland is now viewed as being at the epicentre of climate change.

A Brookings Institution Press and Governance Institute publicationAs we approach the 30th anniversary of Earth Day (the first of its kind was April 1970), congressional debate about environmental protection often remains paralyzed and polarized.

Multilateral negotiations on worldwide challenges have grown in importance with rising global interdependence.

This book contributes to the multidisciplinary debate about social-ecological systems (SES) within the perspective of rethinking the nature of interaction between these systems, especially in the Anthropocene Era.

Originally published in 1990, The Biogeography of the British Isles is devoted to the biogeography of the British Isles and surrounding shelf seas.

The book addresses the gaps in the body of knowledge from two grounds.

Die Autorin schildert ihre eigenen Erfahrungen als Autistin und als Mutter eines autistischen Sohnes.

The Environmental Responsibility Reader is a definitive collection of classic and contemporary environmental works that offers a comprehensive overview of the issues involved in environmental responsibility, steering the reader through each development in thought with a unifying and expert editorial voice.

How prehistoric humans coped with the end of the last Ice Age-and catastrophic global warming.

This book addresses topics related to the impact of invasive species including biosecurity, demographics, species diversity and food security.

Forest management auditing is expanding from its traditional focus on forest management, stewardship and Chain of Custody certification to more innovative topics such as ecosystem services, forest carbon credits, Non-Wood Forest Products, wood energy and Fair Trade certification.

This timely, comprehensive and interdisciplinary volume advances an original argument about the complex roots and multiple politics of globality.

Global environmental change (GEC) represents an immediate and unprecedented threat to the food security of hundreds of millions of people, especially those who depend on small-scale agriculture for their livelihoods.

A timely, revelatory first look into the impact climate change has on childrenthe greatest moral crisis humanity faces todayby a pediatrician in the fastest warming city in America.

Governments all over the world are struggling with the question of how to adapt to climate change.

The accruement of crises over the last two decades, with their particular manifestations in the European context, has evoked the feeling of living in exceptional times, as captured in the recurrent claim that we live in the "e;age of anxiety.

Drawing on decades of on-the-ground experience, a strong body of existing research on the social construction of risk, and his own academic research, Terry Gibson demonstrates the transformative potential of current debates around de- and re-growth for disaster studies.

It's time for a new generation of autistic adventurers!

Global climate change is one of the greatest environmental threats facing humanity and it is affecting every country on every continent.

This book is a rebuttal of the common belief that grave environmental consequences are associated with the issues of global warming and nuclear hazards.

Global climate change is one of the greatest environmental threats facing humanity and it is affecting every country on every continent.

"e;Open this book and James Garvey is right there making real sense to you.

Chapter 1 focuses on the science to understand the physical processes and projections of mass loss of the major ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, as well as of mountain and other land-based glaciers.

This book highlights the environmental footprints and best practices in sustainable agriculture.

The purpose of this book is twofold.

The aim of the monograph is to present a modern and original approach towards designing and implementation of effective solutions that ensure an induction towards positive climate change.

The evolving environmental justice paradigm is conceptualized differently based on political, economic and historical factors.

Access to new sources of energy and their efficient conversion to provide useful work have been key drivers of economic growth since the industrial revolution.

To meet the challenge of global environmental degradation activists have tackled clear and concrete problems such as carbon emissions and climate change, the ruination of ecosystems and habitat, the precipitous loss of biodiversity, and many other unhappy consequences of irresponsible human behaviour.

This volume focuses on the social, cultural, and ecological consequences of a political economy of energy.

Tropical rain forest is being cleared so rapidly and on such a scale that it is a major global environmental problem, threatening the survival of half of the world's plant and animal species and contributing to global climate change through the greenhouse effect.

In Resilience: The Science of Adaptation to Climate Change leading experts analyze and question ongoing adaptation interventions.

The EU has undergone a deep transformation in the last 25 years.

Climate Change Impacts on Coastal Soil and Water Management discusses the latest approaches for monitoring soil and water degradation in coastal regions under current climate conditions as well as potential further changes in the future.

With the ever-increasing impacts of climate change, it is now clear that global society will have to restructure its energy systems in order to decrease carbon emissions.

The environmental impacts of acid rain: on human health, on buildings and materials, on forests, freshwaters, crops and biodiversity and on global warming have been well-documented.

The world is witnessing climate change.

For millennia plant and animal species have received little sustained attention as subjects of Christian theology and ethics in their own right.

Entertaining, easy-to-understand book by dietitian Dr.

Why are bilateral relations, especially in the area of energy security, so different in the cases of U.

The book is about global energy use, its past and present, and its increasingly uncertain future.

Originally published in 1981 Historical Plant Geography is an introductory treatment of historical plant geography and stresses the basic theoretical frame of the subject.

Climate Impacts on Extreme Weather: Current to Future Changes on a Local to Global Scale presents fundamentals and advances in the science of weather and climate extremes, building on the existing knowledge by using regional and global case studies.

While no supranational institutions exist to govern climate change in North America, a system of cooperation among a diverse range of actors and institutions is currently emerging.

Weathering the Reformation explores the role of the Little Ice Age in early modern Christian culture and considers climate as a contributing factor in the Protestant Reform.