Climate change

Almost everyone agrees on the need to transition the global economy to net zero.

This book analyzes social capital and preparations for natural hazards in the Philippines.

This, the third volume in the series Climate Change and Fish Health, describes how finfish in cage culture and their pathogens are directly or indirectly affected by ongoing changes to the environment.

Miscanthus has been enthusiastically promoted as a second generation biomass crop, and this book provides a comprehensive review of this knowledge.

A New Yorker Best Book of the YearA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Year "e;Exquisite.

The monograph focuses on agricultural meteorology and climate change and its impacts on different crops.

Local Energy Governance: Opportunities and Challenges for Renewable and Decentralised Energy in France and Japan examines the extent of the energy transition taking place at a local level in France and Japan, two countries that share ambitious targets regarding the reduction of GHG emissions, their share of renewable energy and their degree of market liberalization.

Using the principles of John Rawls' theory of justice, this book offers an alternative political vision, one which describes a mode of governance that will enable communities to implement a sustainable and socially just future.

Twenty-five years after the Chernobyl explosion, disaster struck once again after a tsunami overwhelmed the considerable safety measures at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan.

Imperiled Life theorizes an exit from the potentially terminal consequences of capital-induced climate change.

Environmental Sociology and Social Transformation demonstrates how sociological theory and research are critical for understanding the social drivers of global environmental destruction and the conditions for transformative change.

Renewable energy has enjoyed relatively good - and sometimes extraordinary - growth in recent years, in particular photovoltaics and wind; but it will be difficult to sustain such rates of diffusion on a global basis.

Gaia Wakes presents a compelling new framework for understanding the past, present, and future of our planet.

As climate change adaptation rises up the international policy agenda, matched by increasing funds and frameworks for action, there are mounting questions over how to ensure the needs of vulnerable people on the ground are met.

This Handbook gives a comprehensive, international and cutting-edge overview of Sustainable Development.

This book provides the definitive account of a decade-long transformation of energy policy in California with rippling consequences.

Socio-environmental crises are currently transforming the conditions for life on this planet, from climate change, to resource depletion, biodiversity loss and long-term pollutants.

Imperiled Life theorizes an exit from the potentially terminal consequences of capital-induced climate change.

The fruit of twenty years of moral reflection on the emerging greatest challenge to humanity of the 21st century, these far-sighted and influential essays by a pioneering practical philosopher on the tangled questions of justice between nations and justice across generations confronting all attempts at international cooperation in controlling climate change sharply crystallize the central choices and offer constructive directions forward.

Nuclear power is often characterized as a "e;green technology.

This book assesses the capacity of the rural populace in terms of their ability to perceive a change in climatic variables and, if so, how they react to these changes in order to minimize the adverse effect of climate change.

Providing both a theoretical background and practical examples of natural resource conflict, this volume explores the pressures on natural resources leading to scarcity and conflict.

Demand for agricultural crops and nutritional requirement continues to escalate in response to increasing population.

This book explores the complex relationship between energy and development and discusses the core issues and concepts surrounding this growing area of research and policy.

Property Rights and Climate Change explores the multifarious relationships between different types of climate-driven environmental changes and property rights.

Energy as a Sociotechnical Problem offers an innovative approach to equip interdisciplinary research on sociotechnical transitions with coherence and focus.

What are the potential adverse impacts of climate change?

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

In The Sustainable Manifesto, Kersten Reich describes in a concise and memorable way the necessary actions that humans need to take to live sustainably and combat climate change.

This book presents new research on solar mini-grids and the ways they can be designed and implemented to provide equitable and affordable electricity access, while ensuring economic sustainability and replication.

For many years, it has been recognised that improving the energy performance of the existing housing stock is vital if energy demand is to be reduced to combat climate change.

'A visionary look at how quality food should replace money as the new world currency' Tim Spector'Hugely ambitious and beautifully written.

This book comprehensively examines the complex relationship between forests and climate change from a biological perspective.

The more we know about the catastrophic implications of climate change, the more fossil fuels we burn.

Drought is one of the likely consequences of climate change in many regions of the world.

Environmental concerns have pushed the decarbonisation of the European economy high on the EU political agenda.

This book offers an up-to-date review and synthesis of the role of tectonics in Neotropical bioregionalisation, in particular transition zones.

This, the third volume in the series Climate Change and Fish Health, describes how finfish in cage culture and their pathogens are directly or indirectly affected by ongoing changes to the environment.

The Social Aspects of Environmental and Climate Change critically examines the prominence of natural science framing in mainstream climate change research and demonstrates why climate change really is a social issue.

Discusses how culture both facilitates and inhibits our ability to address, live with, and make sense of climate change.

This book assesses how low-carbon generation, the advance of energy storage and consumer-based models can help decarbonise electricity supplies at a national level.

How do policymakers, businesses and civil society in India approach the challenge of climate change?

Future climatic and agro-ecological changes in Africa are uncertain and associated with high degrees of spatial and temporal variability and this change is differently simulated within divergent climate-crop models and in controlled crop breeding stations.

Approaches climate change as an issue of human security and ethical obligation, arguing for a more equitable and sustainable future.

This book will provide an important source of practical information on the history of toxicology, the ways in which pollutants reach model organisms used in toxicology, sampling methods for research, mechanisms of toxicity and responses of aquatic organisms to toxic agents, as well as the use of therapeutic agents in current approaches.

We are at an environmental impasse.

Displacement caused by climate change is an area of growing concern.

The Social Aspects of Environmental and Climate Change critically examines the prominence of natural science framing in mainstream climate change research and demonstrates why climate change really is a social issue.

Originally published in 1985.