Climate change

Winner of the Science Writers and Communicators of Canada General Audience awardWe live at the bottom of an ocean of air 5,200 million million tons, to be exact.

Considering sustainability as a flawed and restrictive term in practice, Sustainable Futures for Climate Adaptation argues that we must radically adapt humanity and reform society, cities, buildings, and our approach to migration in order to coexist in harmony with our natural environments.

Focusing on climate-induced migration from Africa to Europe, Climate Change and Migration shows how global warming's impact on international relations has been significant, enhancing the security regimes in not only the advanced economies of the North Atlantic, but in the states that serve as transit points between the most advanced and most desperate nations.

The book examines ideas about the making and shaping of Greenland's society, environment, and resource spaces.

Originally published in 1981.

Strengthening Disaster Risk Governance to Manage Disaster Risk presents the second principle from the UNISDR Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, 2015-2030.

Problems of insect enumeration and assessment of needs are addressed in the contexts of rapid and substantial losses and changes to all key Australian terrestrial and freshwater environments and promoting awarenesss of the importance of insects.

This book provides an in-depth overview of graphic and visual communication styles for conveying climate change and climate action within the landscape architectural profession and in academia.

Industrial and agricultural greenhouse gas emissions are rapidly warming Earth's climate, unleashing rising seas, ocean acidification, melting permafrost, powerful storms, wildfires, floods, deadly heat waves, droughts, tsunamis, food shortages, and armed conflict over shrinking water supplies while reducing nutritional levels in crops.

Eines Morgens stößt Greg auf eine Reportage über das ›Mädchen mit den Zöpfen‹, das 2018 mit ihrem Klimastreik eine globale Bewegung ausgelöst hatte.

Evidence-based policymaking is often promoted within liberal democracies as the best means for government to balance political values with technical considerations.

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.

The fixity or mobility of borders are key themes within the border studies literature and have useful critical application to urban and environmental planning through theory, pedagogy and practice.

How should we be putting a price on carbon, particularly in developing countries?

Since 2010, a significant quantity of international climate change finance has begun to reach developing countries.

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

Following the 2015 Paris climate agreement, the global politics of climate change depends more than ever on national climate policies and the actions of cities, businesses, and other non-state actors, as well as the transnational governance networks that link them.

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 book undertakes a scholarly assessment of the state of the art of law and policy perspectives on groundwater and climate change at the international, regional and national levels.

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

Twenty thousand years ago our planet was an icehouse.

This book analyses energy transitions and the opportunities and challenges for building sustainable energy systems to improve human capabilities while protecting the environment.

Die Wälder des Amazonas-Beckens weisen die größte Biodiversität aller tropischen Wälder auf.

This book examines the implications of geographical change for maritime jurisdiction under the law of the sea.

This book presents a new perspective on climate change for researchers and policymakers in the environmental social sciences and humanities.

The global population is projected to reach almost 10 billion by 2050, and food and feed production will need to increase by 70%.

Hitze, wie wir sie aus fernen Urlaubsregionen kannten, sintflutartiger Starkregen, verheerende Stürme: Ist das schon Klimawandel – oder immer noch "nur" Wetter?

Climate change is triggered by a too high concentration of greenhouse gases in the air, carbon dioxide in particular, primarily originating from fossil fuel-burning.

The book advances knowledge about climate change adaptation practices through a series of case studies.

According to some estimates, humanity has now passed the point at which city dwellers outnumber country dwellers.

Featuring a stellar international cast list of leading and cutting-edge scholars, The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of the Environment presents the state of the art of the discipline that considers ecological issues and crises from a political economy perspective.

As climate change adaptation rises up the international policy agenda, matched by increasing funds and frameworks for action, there are mounting questions over how to ensure the needs of vulnerable people on the ground are met.

In recent decades agricultural commodity surpluses in the developed world have contributed to a mantra of 'land surplus' in which set-aside, extensification, alternative land uses and 'wilding' have been key terms in debates over land.

The interconnectedness of communities, organisations, governing bodies, policy and individuals in the field of disaster studies has never been accurately examined or comprehensively modelled.

This book explores some of the conditions and underlying causes of the multiple environmental crises facing humanity.

This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of the different environmental strategies adopted in the football world to foster sustainability.

This book holistically covers the issue of environmental diplomacy by building a firm foundation for readers to understand the different dimensions of the topic.

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.

The Arctic is ruled by ice.

This book looks at the media's coverage of Climate Change and investigates its role in representing the complex realities of climate uncertainties and its effects on communities and the environment.

 With the advent of global warming and the nuclear arms race, humans are rapidly approaching a moment of truth.

Originally published in 1964 and revised in 1971.

India is the third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, which makes it an important player whose climate mitigation actions and inactions are closely scrutinised.

Advances in Carbon Management Technologiescomprises 43 chapters contributed by experts from all over the world.

The essential guide to Chomsky and his brilliant ideas on the global state of affairsAn extraordinary collection of Chomsky's speeches and his interviews with David Barsamian, edited by Arthur Naiman.

Using climate justice as an analytical tool, this volume examines the role of local mitigation and adaptation actions in Southern Africa in furthering climate-resilient development.

First released in 2007, the bestselling Transport Revolutions argued that land transport in the first half of the 21st century will feature at least two revolutions.