Climate change

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.

La naturaleza ha sido profundamente afectada por la explosión de la población humana, pero también por el consumismo masivo y, de manera igualmente apremiante, por la negligencia de empresas y gobiernos, y por la apatía del público general.

Under ongoing climate change, natural and cultivated habitats of major food crops are being continuously disturbed.

Climate change is the greatest challenge of the age, and yet fierce disagreement still exists over the best way to tackle the problem or, indeed, whether it should be tackled at all.

Caught on camera prior to their demise, this book reveals the surprisingly rich photographic record of now-extinct animals.

An energizing case for hope about the climate, from Rebecca Solnit (';the voice of the resistance'New York Times), climate activist Thelma Young Lutunatabua, and a chorus of voices calling on us to rise to the moment.

Discover The Geographic Approach to enabling science for a more exceptional planet.

Climate Change Law and Policy in the Middle East and North AfricaRegion provides an in-depth and authoritative examination of the guiding principles of climate change law and policy in the MENA region.

The health status and future of tropical coral reefs, as tourist destinations, are regularly subjected to media coverage.

What are the potential adverse impacts of climate change?

This book is ground breaking in its study of business actors in climate and energy politics.

Der heute vorherrschende Konsens über unser Klima lässt wenig Raum für andere ökologische Anliegen.

This book discusses renewable energy policy in oil and gas-wealthy Arab states and presents the reader with a well-informed overview of the national energy systems - both conventional and renewable.

This book contains the first comprehensive history using extensive primary sources to trace the 1977 earthquake disaster response by the Ceausescu communist regime, contextualizing its contribution to the public risk that remains in Romania's capital Bucharest.

This book offers the first comprehensive systematic theological reflection on arguably the most serious issue facing humanity and other creatures today.

Originally published in 1983, Interpretations of Calamity provides a provocative critique of the 'dominant view' of research into natural hazards.

Earth's climate is changing.

An argument that humanists have the toolsand the responsibilityto mobilize political power to tackle climate changeAs climate catastrophes intensify, why do literary and cultural studies scholars so often remain committed to the separation of aesthetic study from the nitty-gritty of political change?

This is the first climate change adaptation plan produced for a national faunal group anywhere in the world.

This book provides policymakers, researchers, and other interested audiences with knowledge on how to quantify and integrate and advance co-benefits in their decisions.

Groundwater is invisible, but its impact is visible everywhere.

Cities around the globe struggle to create better and more equitable access to important destinations and services, all the while reducing the energy consumption and environmental impacts of mobility.

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.

Inequality in a Context of Climate Crisis after COVID uses a complex realist approach to examine the crisis of three interconnected problems: economic inequality, climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the context of mounting challenges stemming from a rapid transformation of the urban-regional landscapes in many Asian countries, this book highlights a multifaceted array of issues that increasingly engage the academic and planning communities in search of viable solutions to complex problems facing us.

This significant volume is the first to focus on both the changing nature of tourism and the capacity of tourism to effect change, especially in the Global South.

There is no bigger challenge for organizational change management in the contemporary world than achieving greater sustainability.

This book assesses and illustrates innovative and practical world-wide measures for combating sea level rise from the profession of landscape architecture.

Bloggers confessing that they waste food, non-governmental organizations naming corporations selling unsustainably harvested seafood, and veterans apologizing to Native Americans at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation for environmental and social devastation caused by the United States government all signal the existence of action-oriented guilt and identity-oriented shame about participation in environmental degradation.

Using extensive research, interviews with program leaders, and examples, Preventing and Healing Climate Traumas is a step-by-step guide for organizing community-based, culturally tailored, population-level mental wellness and resilience-building initiatives to prevent and heal individual and collective climate traumas.

Governments have failed to stem global emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases causing climate change.

This volume brings together scholars working in diverse traditions of the humanities in order to offer a comprehensive analysis of the environmental catastrophe as the modern-day apocalypse.

Winner of the 2017 EDRA Great Places Award (Research Category)Winner of the 2017 VT ASLA Chapter Award of Excellence (Communications Category)The Renewable Energy Landscape is a definitive guide to understanding, assessing, avoiding, and minimizing scenic impacts as we transition to a more renewable energy future.

This book describes observed features of urban climate and its long-term variations as well as the relationship of climate to heat stroke in Japan, based on observational data and statistical analyses.

The National Academies' Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (BASC) held a workshop to explore and evaluate current efforts to model physical processes of coupled atmosphere-land-ocean (A-L-O) models.

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.

With a specific focus on the United States and the United Kingdom, Carbon Inequality studies the role of the richest people in contributing to climate change via their luxury consumption and their investments.

Exploring Food and Urbanism looks at the ways food and cities interconnect in a diversity of places across the globe.

Air pollution has become part of the daily existence of many people who work, live and use the streets in Asian cities.

Ecomedia: Key Issues is a comprehensive textbook introducing the burgeoning field of ecomedia studies to provide an overview of the interface between environmental issues and the media globally.

Provides an up-to-date synthesis of all knowledge relevant to the climate change issue, for researchers, professionals and advanced students.

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

¿Cómo abordar un tema tan urgente e importante como el cambio climático, paso a paso, en el aula?

This book explores the practice of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) in the cities of the Global South.

A richly illustrated book on the history of climate change in Europe.

Seit Menschen an Fliessgewässern siedeln, versuchen sie, ihr Hab und Gut vor den verheerenden Folgen von Überschwemmungen zu schützen.