Climate change

The number of airplane flights worldwide continues to grow and is one of the many drivers of climate change.

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the role of the private sector in accelerating the transition to a low-carbon, climate-resilient, and inclusive world.

A comparative examination of domestic climate politics that offers a theory for cross-national differences in domestic climate policymaking.

Hydrogen could be a significant fuel of the future, with the potential to make a major contribution to the resolution of pressing social and environmental problems such as carbon emissions, energy security and local air pollution.

Anthropocene has become an environmental buzzword.

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Developing Climate-Resilient Crops: Improving Global Food Security and Safety is timely, as the world is gradually waking up to the fact that a global food crisis of enormous proportions is brewing.

Reducing your carbon emissions in an economic down-turn can be challenging, but saving the planet doesn't have to cost you more.

This book is a focussed and up-to-date review about the key challenges, trends, implications, strategies, and ways of overcoming, that dynamic and competitive organizations are facing now and increasingly in future by climate change.

This book focuses on the linking of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) with other independent regional ETS.

"e;Sustainable Synergy: Harnessing Ecosystems for Climate Resilience"e; will assemble a diverse collection of expert perspectives to explore the crucial relationship between ecosystems and climate resilience comprehensively.

This book examines the discursive formation of nuclear power in Japan to provide insights into the ways this technology has been both promoted and resisted, constituting and being constituted by Japan's sociocultural landscape.

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title At once an elegy and an exhortation.

Environmental literacy and education is not simply a top-down process of disseminating correct attitudes, values and beliefs.

This book explores the intrinsically multiscale issue of renewable energy transition from a local, national and transnational perspective, and provides insights into current developments in the Upper Rhine Region that can serve as an international model.

Electricity and Energy Transition in Nigeria provides readers with a detailed account of the dynamics of energy infrastructure change in Nigeria's electricity sector.

'The lack of information around how ADHD and autism shows up in adults means that many of us have been assuming we were anxious, not working hard enough, or just entirely failing altogether.

This book uses narrative responses to the 2010 Haiti earthquake as a starting point for an analysis of notions of disaster, vulnerability, reconstruction and recovery.

Transformation to a low carbon economy is a central tenet to any discussion on the solutions to the complex challenges of climate change and energy security.

Climate change is an environmental problem of unprecedented complexity, not just in terms of its physical, social, economic and political impacts, but particularly in terms of the range of policy instruments being designed by countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The discussion about energy perspectives up to 2050 and beyond has started.

Comprehensive, objective assessment of the literature on renewable energy and its role in climate change mitigation for policymakers, professionals, researchers.

To address climate change fairly, many conflicting claims over natural resources must be balanced against one another.

Provides insight into how diverse societies observe and respond to changing environments, for those interested in climate science, policy and adaptation.

Transnational Food Security addresses food security from an international relations, political economy and legal perspective analysing the relationship between food security and the environment and climate change, trade, finance and contracts, and the intersection between food and human rights.

'Terrifying and timely, this is a book everyone should read and heed' - George Monbiot'Urgent, gripping and sobering, Six Minutes to Winter is a hair-raising wake-up call' - David Wallace-Wells'Powerful and insightful.

A pragmatic, no-holds-barred assessment of climate change, for anyone wishing to be fully informed on the topic.

This book addresses learnings from the energy transition in the Netherlands.

This book comes at just the right moment.

In nineteenth-century Europe, differences among human bodies were understood to be matters of scientific classification.

»Kohei Saito ist der neue Popstar der Kapitalismuskritik .

Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2024 Couldn't be a bolder, more forthright SOS for sport The ObserverThe world of sport has a new opponent: climate change.

The Anthropocene concept highlights that we are now living in a new epoch of earth history where both the rapid accumulation of greenhouse gases and excessive consumption of natural resources endanger human and planetary wellbeing.

Highly commended in the Public Health category, BMA Medical Awards 2010 There are enormous health benefits from tackling climate change.

First Published in 1965, The Climate of London considers the nature of London's climate, including the manner and degree to which this varies in sympathy with changes in the city's morphology, and studying in particular the contrasts between the built-up area and the surrounding rural districts.

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

This book helps all those involved in international tourism develop the new skills, tools and investments required to protect irreplaceable global resources from the impacts of escalating tourism demand over the next 50 years.

Rejecting the assumption that housing and cities are separate from nature, David Clapham advances a new research framework that integrates housing with the rest of the natural world.

This book provides hands-on conceptual, theoretical, and case study discussions on vulnerability and resilience in the global south.

'offers knowledge and inspiration to promote renewable energy in developing and industrialized countries' Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director of UNEP From technology to financing issues, Renewable Energy offers a comprehensive and authoritative review of the determining factors that drive worldwide dissemination of renewable energy technologies.

Curating in a Time of Ecological Crisis reaffirms the relevance and impactful role of art, revealing how contemporary art exhibitions can capture the zeitgeist and advance new and collaborative approaches to a more sustainable inhabitation of Earth.

The global response to climate change will demand unprecedented international cooperation, deep economic transformation and resource transfers at a significant scale.

National implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) provisions has yielded enough challenges for providers and users of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge alike.

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

Global Change in Marine Systems analyses and appraises societal and governing responses to change affecting marine social and ecological systems around the world.