Climate change

Reich illustriertes Sachbuch zur Geschichte des Klimawandels in Europa.

This book examines the nature of the 'energy curriculum' in Arctic Higher Education and provides invaluable data and new models to assess levels of Sustainable Development Literacy.

Meeting the Challenges of Existential Threats through Educational Innovation is the first book of its kind to provide an educational and systematic analysis of problems and solutions regarding the most pressing threats that humankind is facing.

The litany of alarming observations about water use and misuse is now familiar-over a billion people without access to safe drinking water; almost every major river dammed and diverted; increasing conflicts over the delivery of water in urban areas; continuing threats to water quality from agricultural inputs and industrial wastes; and the increasing variability of climate, including threats of severe droughts and flooding across locales and regions.

Charting innovative directions in the environmental humanities, this book examines the cultural history of climate change under three broad headings: history, writing and politics.

The Protection of Green Spaces for Climate Change Adaptation identifies how spatial planning and climate change adaptation are linked by examining the protection of green spaces in cities across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South America and Australia.

Twenty years of talks have done little to slow global warming.

The resilience of food systems and security to emerging challenges and threats, especially in the context of environmental and climate risks and global pandemics such as the Covid-19 crisis, is currently gaining growing importance in research, policy, and practice.

The more the global north has learned about the existential threat of climate change, the faster it has emitted greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

Within only a few years, global warming has emerged from scientific speculation into an environmental threat of worldwide concern.

This book explains how the U.

Explains how communities and ecosystems everywhere can be strengthened to survive climate chaos.

Over the past decade, international organizations (IOs) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have increasingly focused their efforts on the plight of environmental migrants in both industrialized and developing countries.

This book includes peer-reviewed articles from the 8th International Conference on Sustainable Urban Development (ICSUD 2022), held at the Vietnamese-German University (VGU) in Vietnam.

This book focuses on various tropical fruit tree species management for climate change including mitigation strategies and technological countermeasures taken by researchers, progressive growers and commercial companies to overcome the adverse changes.

This book highlights processes, impacts and management practices of bamboo expansion occurring in areas where it is distributed around the world.

As global warming advances, regions around the world are engaging in revolutionary sustainability planning - but with social equity as an afterthought.

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Against Catastrophism explores catastrophism from multiple vantage points and considers the impact of ongoing crisis on individuals.

The life of our planet has reached a critical stage.

This book provides insight into the development of effective climate policy instrumentation in two divergent and mutually exclusive directions.

How will climate change affect our lives?

Ownership and Control of Oil examines government decisions about how much control to exert over the petroleum industry, focusing on the role of National Oil Companies in the production of crude oil since the nationalizations in the 1970s.

What do rising temperatures and increasing extreme weather events mean for military readiness?

In addition to environmental change, the structure and trends of global politics and the economy are also changing as more countries join the ranks of the world's largest economies with their resource-intensive patterns.

Livestock production and its use of finite resources is devastating biodiversity and pushing wildlife to the brink of extinction.

Biodiversity is declining at an alarming rate due to anthropogenic activities around the world.

This book analyses the role of the BASIC countries - Brazil, South Africa, India and China - in the international climate order.

A unique, thought-provoking journey from early humans'' evolutionary response to climate change to today''s global crisis, for students and the general reader.

The existence and urgency of global climate change is a matter of scientific consensus.

Climate Change Temporalities explores how various timescales, timespans, intervals, rhythms, cycles, and changes in acceleration are at play in climate change discourses.

Demonstrates a socio-technical reconfiguration approach to low-carbon system transitions for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners.

As the Kyoto Protocol limps along without the participation of the US and Australia, on-going climate negotiations are plagued by competing national and business interests that are creating stumbling blocks to success.

This book provides the first systematic comparative analysis of climate security discourses.

This book brings together the works of the nineteenth and twentieth century writers Henry David Thoreau and Anna Shepherd.

Rapidly developing countries such as China and India are the real main players in the climate debate, with the potential for massive increases in their carbon emissions in coming years.

With climate disasters expected to displace millions as the planet continues to warm, we are fast approaching a serious humanitarian crisis.

Today, the world is in the most serious turmoil it has experienced for many centuries.

'One of the world's most prominent radical scientists.

The book provides an analysis of impacts of climate change on water for agriculture, and the adaptation strategies in water management to deal with these impacts.

Wirklich nachhaltig leben – das neue Sachbuch zu GREEN, der innovativen Rubrik der Wochenzeitung DIE ZEIT, zeigt, wie´s geht!

Examining urban environmental issues at the macro, municipal level down to the micro community and individual level, this volume features cities and metropolitan regions across the global north and south with case studies from the United States, Canada, Eastern and Western Europe to India, Central America, South America and Africa.

Europe has a long history of managing coastal erosion through a variety of protection strategies, from the defences of the Venice lagoons to coastal land reclamation in the Netherlands.

Amphibians by virtue of their thin, moist, permeable skins are poorly protected from harsh environments and are especially susceptible to chemical changes, desiccation, and alteration of their habitat.

Many of us take it for granted that we ought to cooperate to tackle climate change.

This book highlights the obstacles to and potential for a just transformation as a way out of the current climate crisis.