Climate change

Heritage is almost univocally conceived of as valuable and good, something we care for and preserve for ourselves and future generations.

Impeccably researched and masterfully written, this book explains how and why humanity is driving itself off the cliff.

There has been a burgeoning interest in energy security in recent years due to the transformation of the energy landscape through deepening market deregulation, rising environmental challenges, growing energy hunger, and significant political changes.

The Global Food Economy examines the human and ecological cost of what we eat.

Degrowth is a planned economic contraction in wealthy countries that reduces production and consumption-and, by extension, greenhouse gas emissions and stresses on global ecosystems-to sustainable levels within ecological limits.

Of Limits and Growth offers new perspectives on environmentalism, post-1945 international history, and the origins of sustainability.

The question of the meaning of progress and development is back on the political agenda.

Argues for new ways of conceptualising our ethical obligations regarding global climate change and responds to first-generation literature.

Threats to the Arctic discusses all the current threats to this fragile region, emphasizing the interconnections between many environmental impacts, as well as the teleconnections between events already emerging in the Arctic (ocean circulation changes, melting of sea ice, glaciers and ice sheets) and other parts of the world.

The ecocide and domination of nature that is the Anthropocene does not represent the actions of all humans, but that of Man, the Western and masculine identified corporate, military, intellectual, and political class that long has masked itself as the civilized and the human.

Weil "ohne" einfach (und) besser ist!

In the context of growing global concerns about climate change, this book presents a regional and sub-continental synthesis of pastoralists' responses to past environmental changes and reflects on the lessons for current and future environmental challenges.

Low Carbon Development: Key Issues is the first comprehensive textbook to address the interface between international development and climate change in a carbon constrained world.

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.

*Updated to include new section on the Green New Deal!

Ways of handling climate change vary worldwide.

Psychoanalysis engages with the difficult subjects in life, but it has been slow to address climate change.

An original contribution to our understanding of a phenomenon that is reshaping the world, this title thoroughly discusses the transformation of the energy security policy arena brought on by two dramatic developments - the increased potential availability of energy in many parts of the world on the supply side, and on the demand side increasing concerns over the harmful effects on the environment brought on by the use of fossil fuels.

Australian Alps is a fascinating guide to Kosciuszko, Alpine and Namadgi National Parks.

This collection pays unique attention to the highly challenging problems of addressing inequality within decarbonisation - particularly under-explored aspects, such as high consumption, degrowth approaches and perverse outcomes.

Originally published in 1977.

The Arctic, in the polar region, the northernmost part of Earth, is the hotspot for climate change assessments and the sensitive barometer of global climate variability.

Degrowth is a planned economic contraction in wealthy countries that reduces production and consumption-and, by extension, greenhouse gas emissions and stresses on global ecosystems-to sustainable levels within ecological limits.

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

Sustainable Business: Key Issues is the first comprehensive introductory-level textbook to address the interface between environmental challenges and business solutions to provide an overview of the basic concepts of sustainability, sustainable business, and business ethics.

Why are bilateral relations, especially in the area of energy security, so different in the cases of U.

Humanity is dependent on Nature to survive, yet our society largely acts as if this is not the case.

Despite significant progress in increasing agricultural production, meeting the changing dietary preferences and increasing food demands of future populations remains a significant challenge.

Substantial evidence suggests that we are currently living at the peak of oil production with few prospects for cheap oil ever returning.

Taking a comparative case study approach between Canada and Germany, this book investigates the contrasting response of governments to anti-wind movements.

'This is a well researched, thorough and impressive work on climate change and agriculture in Africa.

Do scientists expect the number and severity of extreme weather events to increase in a warming world?

As cities in developing countries grow and become more prosperous, energy use shifts from fuelwood to fuels like charcoal, kerosene, and coal, and, ultimately, to fuels such as liquid petroleum gas, and electricity.

Ice humanities is a pioneering collection of essays that tackles the existential crisis posed by the planet's diminishing ice reserves.

An ecofeminist criticism of neoliberalism, this book uses economic growth, CSR and the press coverage of environmental affairs as a case study.

Cities, the world over, are increasingly recognised to be both a principal source of the environmental and social sustainability challenges facing contemporary society and a critical site for addressing these challenges.

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Climatic conditions are key determinants of plant growth, whether at the scale of temperature regulation of the cell cycle or at the scale of the geographic limits for a particular species.

With an emphasis on photographic works that offer new perspectives on the history of American social documentary, this book considers a history of politically engaged photography that may serve as models for the representation of impending environmental injustices.

The capacity of humans to destroy their environment is playing out like a Greek tragedy in the Mediterranean Sea.

Climate change, water dynamics, multicultural living and a humanitarian crisis are just some of the complex phenomena shaping urban spatial performances – Raumgeschehen – today.

The year 2009 will be pivotal for Earth's climate.

Originally published in 1982.

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

This book chiefly focuses on environmental flow, water pollution and water quality.

This book interrogates the problems of how and why largely unseen matter, in this case groundwater, has found limited expression in climate fiction.

This book explores developments in the countries of the South Caucasus - Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia - since the EU included the region in the European Neighbourhood Policy in 2003.