Climate change

This handbook presents a comprehensive overview of insect conservation and provides practical solutions to counteract insect declines, at a time where insects are facing serious threats across the world from habitat destruction to invasive species and climate change.

China's nuclear capability is crucial for the balance of power in East Asia and the world.

This volume outlines the specific conditions and responses to climate change in India.

Scientists and politicians are increasingly using the language of risk to describe the climate change challenge.

This book is designed for first- and second-year university students (and their instructors) in earth science, environmental science, and physical geography degree programmes worldwide.

This book offers a complex and problem-based analysis of the past, present, and future of smart cities in Japan's energy transition.

Epistemic Justice, Mindfulness, and the Environmental Humanities explores how contemplative pedagogies and mindfulness can be used in the classroom to address epistemic and environmental injustice.

The New Carbon Economy provides a critical understanding of the carbon economy.

This book includes information, experiences, practical initiatives and projects around the subject matter and makes it available to a wide audience.

Deniers of climate change sometimes quip that claims about global warming are more about political science than climate science.

This book demonstrates the need to coordinate private and corporate actors with national and global sustainable climate policies, with conventions in the spheres of green energy laws, as well as from the spheres of commercial, trade, and other private law.

This title highlights the pertinent issue of climate change and its management using sustainable sources of finance.

Climate change is an environmental problem of unprecedented complexity, not just in terms of its physical, social, economic and political impacts, but particularly in terms of the range of policy instruments being designed by countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

This book aims to give a holistic overview of the pond ecosystem of Indian Sundarbans.

Climate Changed is an honest, humane account about the rapid downsizing of the world's natural resources and the consequences this has for millions of people who, year after year, are displaced from their home countries because of politically-instigated and economically-justified war and conflict.

This book investigates energy access through the lens of everyday energy practices in the Gambian community of Kartong.

First book to explore dramatic amplification of global warming underway in cities for students, policy makers and the general reader.

Ocean and coastal law has grown rapidly in the past three decades as a specialty area within natural resources law and environmental law.

This publication is extracted from a much larger report, Global Environmental Change: Research Pathways for the Next Decade, which addresses the full range of the scientific issues concerning global environmental change and offers guidance to the scientific effort on these issues in the United States.

This book considers the global question of climate change from local perspectives in the context of Central Africa.

Effective policies to prevent global warming and climatic change are urgently required by the world community.

This book provides a socio-legal analysis of the public participation of children in climate change matters, whilst developing a range of tools through which their participation can be increased.

Sweden has a long history of ambitious environmental, energy and climate policy.

Discover new ways to help elementary students engage with and understand the world around them through place-based, hope-filled learning about the causes, impacts, and responses to climate change.

A scarcity of natural resources.

This radical book aims to inject new insight and urgency into the discourse on the retrofitting of commercial and residential buildings in the face of the climate emergency.

Climate Denial in American Politics is a detailed examination of the rise within American politics of climate denialism, the counter movement which challenges the accepted science of climate change.

International Water Scarcity and Variability considers international water management challenges created by water scarcity and environmental change.

This book takes you on a seven-day journey with your guides: 60 coaches and thought-leaders from around the world.

This series of reflective accounts explores the benefits that Buddhist practice can bring for autistic individuals, and outlines how Dharma teachers, centre directors and meditation group leaders can help ensure sessions are truly autism sensitive.

Research Council established the Ecosystems Panel in response to a request from the United States Global Change Research Program (USGCRP).

Pairing in-depth journalism with historical perspectives, this book makes a compelling case for a natural solution to the growing problem of flooding.

The success of the entire food supply chain depends on the prosperity of farms and local communities.

Urban communities around the world face increased stress from natural disasters linked to climate change, and other urban pressures.

Veganism is so much more than what we eat.

Evergreen your landscape with the beauty and benefits of conifers Growing Conifers is a beautifully photographed, comprehensive gardening guide for selecting and cultivating conifers.

This book offers a complex and problem-based analysis of the past, present, and future of smart cities in Japan's energy transition.

How the specter of climate has been used to explain history since antiquityScientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us that human impacts on climate constitute the single greatest threat facing our planet and may even bring about the extinction of our species.

,Integrating intermittent renewable energy sources like wind into electricity systems must be one of the most misunderstood issues in energy policy.

Climatic and Environmental Threats to Cultural Heritage examines the challenges that environmental change, both sudden and long-term, poses to the preservation of cultural material.

This book explores the intersection of climate change and security in the Indo-Pacific, from the South China Sea disputes to national and regional security practices in India, Japan and Southeast Asia, highlighting the vulnerability of countries facing extreme weather, sea-level rise, and geopolitical tensions.

This book takes a hemispheric approach to contemporary urban intervention, examining urban ecologies, communication technologies, and cultural practices in the twenty-first century.

This edited volume reviews important contemporary issues through relevant case studies and research in China and Australia, such as the challenges posed by climate change, the development of eco-urban design, research on sustainable habitats and the relationship between ecology, green architecture and city regeneration, as well as, in general, the future of the city in the new millennium.

Communicating Endangered Species: Extinction, News, and Public Policy is a multidisciplinary environmental communication book that takes a distinctive approach by connecting how media and culture depict and explain endangered species with how policymakers and natural resource managers can or do respond to these challenges in practical terms.

Greenhouse gas (GHG) offsets have long been promoted as an important element of a comprehensive climate policy approach.

Climate change is a complex and dynamic environmental, cultural and political phenomenon that is reshaping our relationship to nature.