Climate change

This full color book is a comprehensive visual reference for the interpretation of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images with examples of how technological specifications may affect interpretation solutions.

A gripping journey through the icy regions of our changing planetFrom the Arctic Ocean and ice sheets of Greenland, to the glaciers of the Andes and Himalayas, to the great frozen desert of Antarctica, The White Planet takes readers on a spellbinding scientific journey through the shrinking world of ice and snow to tell the story of the expeditions and discoveries that have transformed our understanding of global climate.

This book is ground breaking in its study of business actors in climate and energy politics.

In the late 2000s climate action became a defining feature of the international political agenda.

Great advances have been made in our understanding of the climate system over the past few decades, and remotely sensed data have played a key role in supporting many of these advances.

With tipping points and extreme global warming looming, the key to understanding our climate future lies in our distant past "e;If you care at all about our future, you must read Runaway Climate.

In the last thirty years, China has experienced rapid economic development and urbanisation which has resulted in high levels of environmental degradation and has put considerable pressure on the country's infrastructure and natural resources.

This book explores the connections between risk and responsibilisation in official communication to the public about the global risks of the pandemic and climate change.

Heritage is almost univocally conceived of as valuable and good, something we care for and preserve for ourselves and future generations.

This book brings together two important fields in the study of international politics and policy: climate change adaptation and mitigation (climate action) and the Responsibility to Protect (R2P).

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

Featuring a stellar international cast list of leading and cutting-edge scholars, The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of the Environment presents the state of the art of the discipline that considers ecological issues and crises from a political economy perspective.

This book discusses emerging contexts of global warming and climate change, agricultural vulnerability and adaptation from local to global scale.

The conjunction of climate, food, and financial crises in the late 2000s triggered renewed interest in farmland and agribusiness investments around the world.

Climate change is the greatest challenge facing humanity: drastic reduction of carbon emissions is vital if we are to avoid a catastrophe that devastates large parts of the world.

Sir John Houghton''s definitive, full-colour guide to climate change is fully up-to-date with the latest IPCC findings.

This book presents research from across the globe on how gender relationships in agriculture are changing.

The market and policy impetus to install increasingly utility-scale solar systems, or solar farms (sometimes known as solar parks or ranches), has seen products and applications develop ahead of the collective industry knowledge and experience.

This volume brings together scholars working in diverse traditions of the humanities in order to offer a comprehensive analysis of the environmental catastrophe as the modern-day apocalypse.

Since China has now become the world's largest energy consumer, its energy sector has understandably huge implications for the global economy.

In Climate Change Law in China in Global Context, seven climate change law scholars explain how the country's legal system is gradually being mobilized to support the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in China and achieve adaptation to climate change.

Travel is an intrinsic part of many of our lives.

The importance of the effective management of the natural environment has become vital over the past few decades.

From climate change to GM foods, we are increasingly confronted with complex, interconnected social and environmental problems that span disciplines, knowledge bases and value systems.

This book offers a distinctive and comprehensive view of the energy transition of Japan, with a particular focus on the rise of smart cities.

Substantial evidence suggests that we are currently living at the peak of oil production with few prospects for cheap oil ever returning.

A new expanded and illustrated edition of the history-making speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young activist who has become the voice of a generation'We are the change and change is coming' In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school one day.

This book presents a systemic view of the global environmental economy under the conditions of climate change from the positions of Sustainable Development Goals.

The Routledge Handbook of Disaster Risk Reduction Including Climate Change Adaptation aims to provide an overview and critique of the current state of knowledge, policy, and practice, encouraging engagement, and reflection on bringing the two sectors together.

Rekordtemperaturen, Dürre-Katastrophen und Starkregenereignisse treten heute immer häufiger auf, so dass die Folgen des Klimawandels im gesellschaftlichen Bewusstsein immer präsenter werden und nicht mehr zu verharmlosen sind.

Converging Social Justice Issues and Movements argues that multiple contemporary converging crises have significantly altered the context for and object of political contestations around agrarian, climate, environmental and food justice issues.

Disaster prevention and the mitigation of climate change effects call for global action.

Our divided politics, unable to solve the challenges we face concerning society's hierarchies of injustice, poverty, endless war, and climate change, are now backtracking to even more division.

Agroecology is at the forefront of transforming our food systems.

This book examines the concepts of the Anthropocene and globalisation in our society and the changes that these are bringing about in education and human learning.

Die Klimakrise läuft allen Verleugnungen und aller Ignoranz zum Trotz auf eine ökologische, ökonomische und soziale Katastrophe zu.

In recent decades agricultural commodity surpluses in the developed world have contributed to a mantra of 'land surplus' in which set-aside, extensification, alternative land uses and 'wilding' have been key terms in debates over land.

During the negotiations in 2015 that led to the adoption of the Paris Agreement, one of the most contentious issues was the introduction of a dedicated provision in Article 8 on what is known as 'loss and damage'.

Despite the findings on global climate change presented by the scientific community, there remains a significant gap between its recommendations and the actions of the public and policy makers.

Climate change caused by human activity is the most fundamental challenge facing mankind in the 21st century, since it will drastically alter the living conditions of millions of people, mainly in the Global South.

Environmental Humanities in the New Himalayas: Symbiotic Indigeneity, Commoning, Sustainability showcases how the eco-geological creativity of the earth is integrally woven into the landforms, cultures, and cosmovisions of modern Himalayan communities.

The Middle Holocene epoch (8,000 to 3,000 years ago) was a time of dramatic changes in the physical world and in human cultures.

There is no bigger challenge for organizational change management in the contemporary world than achieving greater sustainability.

This book investigates and evaluates the opportunities and limitations of network governance in building local capacity for energy infrastructure governance.

Winner of the 2024 Business Book Awards (Change & Sustainability category)Winner of the Bronze Axiom Business Book Award 2024 in the Philanthropy / Non Profit / Sustainability category.

In Resilience: The Science of Adaptation to Climate Change leading experts analyze and question ongoing adaptation interventions.

Nuclear energy leaves behind an infinitely dangerous legacy of radioactive wastes in places that are remote and polluted landscapes of risk.

Urban Density Contextualized provides planners with the tools to understand, assess, and implement urban density successfully.

A critical, intercultural and interdisciplinary review of our relationship with the environment, and its reflection in law and governance.