Climate change

The basic assumption of this book is that the organization of a negotiation process matters.

Medicinal plants supply the ever-growing needs of humankind for natural chemicals, such as pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, agrochemicals, and chemical additives.

Community-based adaptation is a new concept whose meaning is still to be fully understood.

This book represents the background of the Barind Tract of Bangladesh with the proximity of drought information, conceptual and logic of the books, history, definition and perception on drought and climate scenario and how people understand underlying causes, impacts and consequences of drought in agriculture, environment, human health and society.

This book addresses the growing demand for applied experiences that move students beyond learning into the realm of doing by supporting the development of skills and competencies that align with emerging areas of innovation and work.

This textbook, by three experts in the field, provides a comprehensive overview of international climate change law.

This book analyses the key political challenges to regional energy cooperation in South Asia.

The book provides an overview relevant to various biological mechanisms that regulate carbon exchanges between the major components and their response to climate change.

Climate change has demonstrated, perhaps more than any other environmental concerns, the complexities of the human-nature interrelationship and the need for embedding a far greater environmental consciousness into our social values and norms.

Biodiversity loss in terrestrial environments associated with human activities has been appreciated as a major issue for some years now.

This book argues that social transformation is both necessary and possible if democracies are to respond effectively to the climate crisis without social collapse.

This book offers a long-overdue analysis of the ubiquity of eco-apocalypticism in current discourses on the climate crisis.

This book applies a justice framework to analysis of the actual and potential role of international law with respect to people on the move in the context of anthropogenic climate change.

From the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference there was a concerted international effort to stop climate change.

The unpredictability of Australia’s climate poses real challenges for practices that were developed based on the relative predictability of a European climate.

Australians are famous for our love of the coast, although in many places this 'love' has caused serious and often irreversible impacts.

'A model of clarity, comprehensiveness and, above all, sanity.

This book aims to develop a framework for the assessment of population 'preferences in climate change mitigation policies by applying a Willingness to Pay (WTP) approach and presents the results from several case studies in Lithuania on renewable energy generation and renovation in different households.

This book takes a deep dive into the design and planning, and unique challenges of settlements in the European Arctic.

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This three-volume set presents entries and primary sources that will impress on readers that what we do-or don't do-today regarding climate change will dramatically influence what life on this planet will be like for untold numbers of generations.

Many emerging economies are on the front line of the devastating impacts of global warming such as desertification and extreme weather events, but, for historical and political reasons, they follow ambitious growth targets with seemingly little concern for climate change and environmental degradation.

Analysing the interactions between institutions in the climate change and energy nexus, including the consequences for their legitimacy and effectiveness.

The Business of Less rewrites the book on business and the environment.

This book provides an evaluation of the science and policy debates on climate change and offers a reframing of the challenges they pose, as understood by key international experts and players in the field.

Politicians stand at a crossroads where the path to green policies is fraught with political risks, as the immediate costs to society may overshadow the profound future benefits.

Mal angenommen es war nicht früher alles besser – sondern wird es erst in der Zukunft: Wie würde die ideale Welt 2040 in Bezug auf fossile Brennstoffe, Mobilität und Ernährung aussehen?

This book provides a fresh perspective on the state of global climate governance, offering innovative suggestions for improving its effectiveness and legitimacy.

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

This book develops a philosophy of education for the Anthropocene, proposing that we think about education in the light of contemporary bioclimatic challenges.

Can political violence create freedom?

Environmental issues are a growing concern for our society, and should deserve increased attention, given the extremely negative climate changes which have been taking place.

This book investigates the relationship between non-state actors and climate justice from a philosophical perspective.

THE TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023A BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK FOR THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT AND FINANCIAL TIMESA BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK | AN INSTANT #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Humanity has transformed the Earth: Frankopan transforms our understanding of history' Financial Times'Vast, learned and timely work' Sunday Times------From the international bestselling author of The Silk Roads comes a major history of how a changing climate has dramatically shaped the development-and demise-of civilisations across time.

This book addresses the crucial - but oddly neglected - question of what it means to say climate change is political.

The question of what to do with radioactive waste has dogged political administrations of nuclear-powered electricity-producing nations since the inception of the technology in the 1950s.

An objective and rigorous analysis of climate change liability law in eighteen jurisdictions around the world.

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This book examines how emerging environmental challenges are situated within existing International Relations (IR) theoretical understandings of ‘security’.

'A thought provoking and documented examination of solutions to social and economic inequality, ecological tipping points, and the threat of climate catastrophe, focusing on renewable energy systems, agroecology, and social organization.

A practical guide to cultivating expansive understandings of climate change and environmental regeneration in K12 students through classroom instructional practices and curricula.

Sustainability is part of every aspect of our life, with climate concerns shaping the future.

Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, but few would consider it a social good.

This book focuses on the traditional ecological knowledge in addressing the current climate crisis in the Indian Himalayas.

Scientists have long sought to unravel the fundamental mysteries of the land, life, water, and air that surround us.