Climate change

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.

Low Carbon Politics focuses on how policies and institutions have influenced the deployment of renewable energy and nuclear power in the electricity sector.

To deal with the climate crisis we need a new paradigm of technological and social development aimed at the restoration of ecological systems--the bio-digital energy paradigm--and China is the world power best positioned to lead this change.

This book is about the enactment, adaption, and ultimately fragmentation of government policy regarding the use of water in the American west.

Effective policy is vital for creating greener economies, new jobs and industries, for securing energy supplies and for protecting the climate and environment.

The conservation of Earth's forest ecosystems is one of the great environmental challenges facing humanity in the 21st century.

The Hartwell Approach to Climate Policy presents a powerful critique of mainstream climate change policies and details a set of pragmatic alternatives based on the Hartwell Group's collective writings from 1988-2010.

Food and the global agricultural system has become one of the defining public concerns of the twenty-first century.

Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds and Climate Change highlights the relationship between climate change and biogenic VOC and the impact they have on each other.

The principles of glacier physics are developed from basic laws in this up-to-date third edition for advanced students and researchers.

This book compiles and explains technical terms in sustainable finance in an easy-to-navigate A-Z format.

As major environmental crises loom, Christina Ergas makes the argument in Surviving Collapse that one possible way forward is a radical sustainable development that turns the focus from monetary gain to social and ecological regeneration and transformation.

Climate Change, The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Public Pedagogies: The Case for Ecosocialism uses public pedagogy as a theoretical lens to examine climate change emergency and presents a solution to the issue in ecosocialism.

Since 2009, international climate activism has focused on stopping coalmining in solidarity with local and Indigenous struggles that are resisting coalmining.

Despite an overwhelming scientific consensus, climate change remains one of the most controversial issues of our time.

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Originally published in 1961.

Throughout the world, the threat of climate change is pressing governments to accelerate the deployment of technologies to generate low carbon electricity or heat.

As water's significance as a geopolitical resource is poised to surpass that of oil, this book explores the adaptation of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) services in the Middle East to climate change challenges, leveraging the Humanitarian-Development-Peace nexus for a sustainable transition and resilient solutions.

Je globalisierter die Welt, desto verletzlicher die Menschheit.

The Routledge Handbook of Global Sustainability Governance provides a state-of-the-art review of core debates and contributions that offer a more normative, critical, and transformatively aspirational view on global sustainability governance.

The answers to the questions of why and how people live where they live as well as how they maintain and integrate with one another are fundamental human settlement issues rooted in history and culture.

A number of international, high-level science and policy meetings have been influential in the ongoing global climate change negotiations.

In an era of climate change, deforestation and massive habitat loss, we can no longer rely on parks and protected areas as isolated 'islands of wilderness' to conserve and protect vital biodiversity.

Originally published in 1988.

Australias response to climate change must truly baffle outsiders.

Community Responses to Disasters in the Pacific Rim presents different aspects of place-making in displacement in the Pacific Rim region.

This book examines prospective climate adaptive building materials in desert and drylands in the context of climate change, desertification, urbanisation demands, and the consequent sustainable urban development challenges.

Endurance presents stories of ordinary Australians grappling with extraordinary circumstances, providing insight into their lives, their experiences with drought and their perceptions of climate change.

This text explores how to design, implement and sustain processes to meaningfully engage youth and marginalised populations in local and multilateral decision-making.

This book introduces an innovative approach to sustainable and regenerative mountain development.

This book critically explores how the water-energy-food nexus can be used as an organising framework to address environmental degradation and promote sustainable development.

Perceptions of Climate Change from North India: An Ethnographic Account explores local perceptions of climate change through ethnographic encounters with the men and women who live at the front line of climate change in the lower Himalayas.

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The second edition of Dessler and Parson's acclaimed book provides an integrated treatment of the science, technology, economics, policy, and politics of climate change.

More accurate forecasts of climate conditions over time periods of weeks to a few years could help people plan agricultural activities, mitigate drought, and manage energy resources, amongst other activities; however, current forecast systems have limited ability on these time- scales.

Gespräche mit Noam Chomsky, Vandana Shiva, Immanuel Wallerstein, Amy Goodman, Yanis Varoufakis, Aminata Traoré, Harald Schumann, Maude Barlow, Jeremy Scahill, Wangui Mbatia, Alyn Ware, Srećko Horvat, Alberto Acosta, Kevin Anderson, Rob Hopkins u.

"e;A landmark study in the struggle to contain climate change, the greatest challenge of our era.

Systematic overview of the risks to environmental integrity and cost effectiveness of carbon markets, with policy and governance solutions.

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.

Climate change poses questions of intergenerational justice, but some of its features make it difficult to determine whether we have obligations of climate justice to future generations.

A discussion of cutting-edge developments in policy on climate change and forced displacement from leading academics and practitioners.

The ten catastrophic risks that threaten human civilisation and the planet, and advice on how to overcome or mitigate them.

Global environmental issues such as climate change and species loss are intensifying despite our best efforts to combat them.

Sustainable Energy Development: A Multi-Criteria Decision Making Approach discusses sustainable energy development, the main path for achieving carbon neutrality, and the use of multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) in assessing energy transition in both operational and socio-political forms.

This edited volume examines how to develop a planning and design process with green infrastructure that creates technical answers to the social and ecological function of the city's climate change adaptations demands.

Bangladesh is by no means a high emitter of carbon, but it is nevertheless one of the countries most critically affected.

The book sketches out how the criminological lens could be used in the climate change debate around possible human extinction.

Immer mehr Menschen, ob jung oder alt, machen sich darüber Gedanken, wie ein klimagerechteres Leben mit der Verwirklichung persönlicher Träume und einem sicheren finanziellen Polster in Einklang zu bringen sind, besonders in Zeiten, in denen Inflationsängste und steigende Preise immer konkreter werden.