Climate change

Advanced Modelling Techniques Studying Global Changes in Environmental Sciences discusses the need for immediate and effective action, guided by a scientific understanding of ecosystem function, to alleviate current pressures on the environment.

Originally published in 1984, The Roots of Modern Environmentalism provides a historical, philosophical and ideological background to environmentalism.

Problems of insect enumeration and assessment of needs are addressed in the contexts of rapid and substantial losses and changes to all key Australian terrestrial and freshwater environments and promoting awarenesss of the importance of insects.

The book provides insights into community narratives concerning life in the face of creeping calamities through a case study from the Colombian Andes.

This book will discuss the legal tools offered by international law that can support foreign direct investment (FDI) in the renewable energy sector in the Global South.

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

This is a definitive guide to the rebound effect in home heating - the increase in energy service use after a technological intervention aimed at reducing consumption.

Coordinated, well-functioning institutions are crucial for tackling environmental challenges like climate change, pollution, biodiversity loss, and resource overuse.

A solution to the problem of climate change requires close international cooperation and difficult reforms involving all states.

The global carbon markets are growing at a staggering rate.

Natural environments, and the human interactions that occur within, are continuously changing and evolving.

Major changes in policy and management , across the entire agricultural production chain, will be needed to ensure the best use of available water resources in meeting growing demands for food and other agricultural products.

Despite the clear link between climate change and human rights with the potential for virtually all protected rights to be undermined as a result of climate change, its catastrophic impact on human beings was not really understood as a human rights issue until recently.

The book develops the concept of environmental violence as a potent tool to identify, track, reduce environmental threats to humanity.

Infrastructures in Practice shows how infrastructures and daily life shape each other.

This volume examines environmental law and governance in the Pacific, focusing on the emerging challenges this region faces.

The promises, dreams and hopes of architects for future cities are now inextricably linked to climate change.

Acknowledging mounting socioeconomic inequality, a climate system in disarray, and a collapse of biodiversity that now threatens the very viability of life on earth for both present and future generations, Radical Environmental Resistance demystifies activists' ecological worldviews, their tactical motivations, and their diagnostic and prognostic framings.

Wind power has developed rapidly in terms of the number of new wind power plants now installed in more than hundred countries around the world.

This book explores how the concept or urban experimentation is being used to reshape practices of knowledge production in urban debates about resilience, climate change governance, and socio-technical transitions.

Sustainability and its competitive advantage are the goals of every company and any brand that wants to stay successful in the marketplace.

This book examines the implications of geographical change for maritime jurisdiction under the law of the sea.

This book addresses the crucial question of how the essential needs of the growing human population can be met without breaking the Earth's already-stretched life-support system.

This book explores the possibilities and scope of facilitating innovation and transfer of the environmentally sound technologies in the Post-Paris climate era.

In times of climate change and public debt, a concern for intergenerational justice should lead us to have a closer look at theories of intergenerational justice.

The book examines ideas about the making and shaping of Greenland's society, environment, and resource spaces.

The discussion about energy perspectives up to 2050 and beyond has started.

This book explores the mobilisation of China's wind and solar industries and examines the implications of this development to energy generation and distribution, innovation and governance.

Wie sähe die Welt aus, wenn wir auf Wissenschaft hören?

Civil society participants have voiced concerns that the environmental problems that were the subject of multilateral environmental agreements negotiated during the 1992 Rio processes are not serving to ameliorate global environmental problems.

Environmental ethics presents and defends a systematic and comprehensive account of the moral relation between human beings and their natural environment and assumes that human behaviour toward the natural world can and is governed by moral norms.

It is beyond doubt that the climate is changing, presenting us with one of the biggest challenges in the twenty-first-century.

In order to address the twenty-first-century challenges of decarbonisation, energy security and cost-effectiveness it is essential to understand whole energy systems and the interconnection and interaction between different components.

We are the only species that uses fire.

Posthuman Personhood takes up the ethical challenge posed by Francis Fukuyama's work, Our Posthuman Future.

Is the pursuit of endless economic growth compatible with the deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions required to avoid the worst extremes of climate change?

We are facing unprecedented environmental challenges, including global climate change, large-scale industrial development, rapidly increasing species extinction, ocean acidification, and deforestation - challenges that require new vocabularies and new ways to express grief and sorrow over the disappearance, degradation, and loss of nature.

This book turns critical feminist scrutiny on national climate policies in India and examines what transition might really mean for marginalized groups in the country.

The confluence of global climate change, growing levels of energy consumption and rapid urbanization has led the international policy community to regard urban responses to climate change as 'an urgent agenda' (World Bank 2010).

Climate change is a pressing problem.

Bioregionalism asks us to reimagine ourselves and the places where we live in ecological terms and to harmonize human activities with the natural systems that sustain life.

Assessing the vulnerability of human populations to global environmental change, particularly climate change, is now the main imperative of research and international action.

Why are white evangelicals the most skeptical major religious group in America regarding climate change?

The Low-Carbon Good Life is about how to reverse and repair four interlocking crises arising from modern material consumption: the climate crisis, growing inequality, biodiversity loss and food-related ill-health.

Cities are home to the most consequential current attempts at human adaptation and they provide one possible focus for the flourishing of life on this planet.

This book provides a wealth of information and a critically required framework for sustainable automobile policy development in major Asian countries.

Sea-level rise may be one of the consequences of global warming.