Climate change

Pioneers, Leaders and Followers in Multilevel and Polycentric Climate Governance focuses on pioneers, leaders and followers as central drivers for international climate change governance innovations.

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the growing transnational climate movement.

'This is a timely, challenging and fascinating book on a topic of central importance to the success or otherwise of our climate change policies.

The rise of emerging economies represents a challenge to traditional global power balances and raises the question of how we can combine sustainability with continued economic growth.

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.

Low carbon technology transfer to developing countries has been both a lynchpin of, and a key stumbling block to a global deal on climate change.

Originally published in 1974, Arctic and Alpine Environments examines, the relatively simple ecosystems of arctic and alpine lands that still occupy extensive areas little disturbed by modern technology.

A multidisciplinary volume describing the effects of volcanism on the environment, past and present, for researchers and advanced students.

With global temperatures rising rapidly during the past quarter century, infrared forcing, popularly known as the greenhouse effect, has attracted worldwide concern.

The Legacy of Carbon Dioxide: Past and Present Impacts covers the truly varied roles carbon dioxide has played and continues to play in the character of our planet.

The year 2016 was the hottest year on record and the third consecutive record-breaking year in planet temperatures.

This book identifies four key forms of air pollution: indoor, urban, regional and global.

More than half of the world's people now live in cities.

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

This book presents a new System Dynamics model (the ERRE model), a novel stock and flow consistent global impact assessment model designed by the authors to address the financial risks emerging from the interaction between economic growth and environmental limits under the presence of shocks.

International agreements such as the Kyoto Protocol, EU regulation and country-specific national climate policies offer some hope of addressing climate change.

Arising out of human-environment interaction, sustainability problems resist disciplinary categories and simple solutions.

An essential book for everyone who seeks to reclaim the commons and build a just and equitable society.

Trace gases are those that are present in the atmosphere at relatively low concentrations.

The book addresses the gaps in the body of knowledge from two grounds.

This book intervenes in contemporary debates about climate activism, militancy, and strategy that have been gathering force in radical ecological circles.

This comprehensive handbook provides a detailed and unique overview of current thinking about marine governance in the context of global environmental change.

The Routledge International Handbook ofHigher Education for Sustainable Development gives a systematic and comprehensive overview of existing and upcoming research approaches for higher education for sustainable development.

The development of an international substantive environmental right on a global level has long been a contested issue.

Climate change will not only impact the environment around us, but our thoughts, behaviors, and how we perceive the world.

This book is part of the Climate Change Management Series.

The ongoing assault on climate science in the United States has never been more aggressive, more blatant, or more widely publicized than in the case of the Hockey Stick graph-a clear and compelling visual presentation of scientific data, put together by MichaelE.

Liquid Architecture challenges the idea of architecture as a fixed, inert container and reconceptualises it as a body whose boundaries are rather blurred and ever-changing.

An analysis of the normative prerequisites for addressing the challenges of democratic earth system governance in the Anthropocene.

Originally published in 1981.

This book collates, reviews and synthesizes information on how soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks differ among major terrestrial biomes of the U.

This book helps all those involved in international tourism develop the new skills, tools and investments required to protect irreplaceable global resources from the impacts of escalating tourism demand over the next 50 years.

To keep the global average temperature from rising further than 2(deg)C, emissions must peak soon and then fall steeply.

This book is an original, accessible, and thought-provoking introduction to the severe and broad-ranging challenges that climate change presents and how societies can respond.

Human understanding of the rapidly changing environments of the North and South Poles and the realities of climate change has been radically transformed by a host of innovations afforded by the digital technologies.

Nobel Prize-winning scientist''s assessment of options for switching to sustainable energy provision to avert potentially disastrous consequences of climate change.

This book extends the framework of the climate-energy-land nexus to elucidate political, economic, social, and institutional factors and causal mechanisms that stringent climate targets bring about, rather than mitigate a disproportional heavy burden on the forest sector in Indonesia.

Woven together as a text of humanities-based environmental research outcomes, Himalayan Climes and Multispecies Encounters hosts a collection of historical and fieldwork-based case studies and conceptual discussions of climate change in the greater Himalayan region.

China's rapid economic growth in the recent decades has produced an unprecedented energy vulnerability that could threaten the sustainability of its economic development, a linchpin to social stability and ultimately the regime legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as well as the foundation for China's rising power aspirations.

Resilience has become a very topical issue transcending many spheres and sectors of sustainable urban development.

Bringing together scholarly research by climate experts working in different locations and social science disciplines, this book offers insights into how climate change is socially and culturally constructed.

The last decade has witnessed an increasing focus on the relationship between climate change and human rights.

This book analyzes how major events such as the recent pandemic crisis, wars around the world and climate change, have affected agricultural production and the direct food supply.

Building resilience to the world's increasingly damaging environmental hazards has become a priority.

To enhance sustainable development research and practice the values of the researchers, project managers and participants must first be made explicit.

In Bangladesh, the chars within the river channels are an important part of its landscape.

Energy Fables: Challenging Ideas in the Energy Sector takes a fresh look at key terms and concepts around which energy research and policy are organised.