Climate change

This book offers a diverse set of solid concerted strategies in the development and implementation of specific "e;climate actions,"e; in natural and built places where we all live.

Climate change is the greatest market failure in world history and thus the most urgent challenge in the world of business for the foreseeable future.

Democracy and Climate Change explores the various ways in which democratic principles can lead governments to respond differently to climate change.

This volume focuses on the theory and practice of the regenerative development paradigm that is rapidly displacing sustainability as the most fertile ground for climate change adaptation research.

Climate Change is geared toward a variety of students and general readers who seek the real science behind global warming.

This book discusses various transport sustainability issues from the perspective of developing countries, exploring key issues, problems and potential solutions for improving transport sustainability in China.

This text develops and applies a far-reaching account of the economic value of climate, derived from its amenity value or the benefits which a particular climate provides to the people of that region or country.

Energy policy is at a crossroads.

A comparison of how societal actors in different geographical, political and cultural contexts understand agents and drivers of sustainability transformations.

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.

In 1990, NASA began developing Mission to Planet Earth (MTPE), an initiative aimed at using satellites to study the planets environment from space.

This book sets out how to ensure that adaptation efforts are socially and environmentally sustainable, contributing to poverty reduction as well as confronting the processes driving vulnerability.

Paula Steingäßer erzählt, was es bedeutet, in einer Welt aufzuwachsen, in der die Zukunft nicht mehr sicher ist.

Human activities are depleting ecosystems at an unprecedented rate.

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

Growing debates around governance are taking place among academic, policy-making, and practice-based communities.

The global scientific and policy community now unequivocally accepts that human activities cause global climate change.

The message of this courageous classic book is that the benefits of development, so long promised over the past sixty years, have not come about for most people.

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

The Great Global Warming Blunder unveils new evidence from major scientific findings that explode the conventional wisdom on climate change and reshape the global warming debate as we know it.

The issue of 'sustainability' in the developed world is nowhere more critical than in the field of personal travel, which in many countries has become the fastest-growing contributor to global warming.

This book presents both state-of-the art knowledge from Recent coral reefs (1.

'The global oil industry is an exceptionally complex one, and its importance to governments, business and society as a whole is immense.

The City is an Ecosystem maps an interdisciplinary, community-engaged response to the great ecological crises of our time-climate change, biodiversity loss, and social inequality-which pose particular challenges for cities, where more than half the world's population currently live.

Examines international grievance mechanisms for those suffering environmental/social harm resulting from multilateral development financing.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of strategies to combat pressing environmental challenges, focusing on pollution remediation and climate change mitigation.

A variety of viewpoints is offered in this timely analysis of China's economy and the future shape of Beijing's energy consumption.

Die Klimakrise ist da, auch schon in Deutschland zu spüren, und endlich kommt Bewegung in die satte und träge Gesellschaft.

The days of rationalist scientific management and deference to official data are behind us.

This edited volume explores how a feminist political ecology framework can bring fresh insights to the study of rural and urban livelihoods dependent on vulnerable rivers, lakes, watersheds, wetlands and coastal environments.

When it comes to climate change, the greatest difficulty we face is that we do not know the likely degree of change or its cost, which means that environmental policy decisions have to be made under uncertainty.

This special issue of the Climate Policy journal addresses the following key questions: * What long-term range of policies for climate change adaptation and mitigation should Europe pursue to adequately enhance sustainability on a global level?

Climate Change and Sustainable Development: Mitigation and Adaptation focuses on the link between climate change threats and sustainable development goals.

The changing climate, the warming of the world and acid rain are among the greatest problems facing us at the end of the twentieth century.

Adaptation is the poor cousin of the climate change challenge - the glamour of international debate is around global mitigation agreements, while the bottom-up activities of adaptation, carried out in community halls and local government offices, are often overlooked.

An inside tour of the incredible-and probably dangerous-plans to counteract the effects of climate change through experiments that range from the plausible to the fantasticDavid Battisti had arrived in Cambridge expecting a bloodbath.

This "e;jaw-droppingly beautiful book"e; explores the work and creative process of artists diagnosed with ASD, with a foreword by Temple Grandin (Library Journal).

This book centers Indigenous knowledge and practice in community-led climate change solutions.

Introduction to Emergency Management sets the standard for excellence in the field and has educated a generation of emergency managers.

,Sound and solid case studies on vulnerability and adaptation have been woefully lacking in the international discourse on climate change.

This book examines the threat that climate change poses to the projects of poverty eradication, sustainable development, and biodiversity preservation.

Climate has for a long time been a taken-for-granted background against which social, political and economic interactions have taken place.

Heating and cooling represent significant energy loads around the world, with the associated high level of carbon emissions.

Durch den Klimawandel wird es zu erheblichen Veränderungen der Biodiversität weltweit und in Deutschland kommen.

Museums and Societal Collapse explores the implications of societal collapse from a multidisciplinary perspective and considers the potential museums have to contribute to the reimagining and transitioning of a new society with the threat of collapse.