Climate change

This book investigates the broader climate movement to contextualise the role played by its climate justice wing, focusing specifically on the theoretical and practical contributions of ecosocialists.

This book initiates multipolar climate/clime studies of the world's altitudinal and latitudinal highlands with terrestrial, experiential, and affective approaches.

It is now well accepted that deforestation is a key source of greenhouse gas emissions and of climate change, with forests representing major sinks for carbon.

Die konkreten gesellschaftlichen Folgen des Klimawandels sind sehr unsicher und nicht vorhersagbar.

This book covers biodiversity conservation under special consideration of the challenges in the global south with particular attention being paid to consider the existing conservation challenges in relation to the study area in Ethiopia.

This information-packed book is the complete guide to everything you need to know about the worlds oceans, with each conceptOceans cover two thirds of the Earth's surface and are the driving force behind our weather systems, taking warm and cold water around the globe.

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

Climate Change in the Anthropocene reviews current science on anthropogenic sources and projections for climatic change.

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

Das fossile System bröckelt.

Approaching the issues of climate change and climate justice from a range of diverse perspectives including those of culture, gender, indigeneity, race, and sexuality, as well as challenging colonial histories and capitalist presents, Climate Futures boldly addresses the apparent inevitability of climate chaos.

Science for Responsible Citizenship helps the reader to understand how science works and how science can help us develop reasonable and logical solutions to worldwide problems.

Contemporary Climate Change Debates is an innovative new textbook which tackles some of the difficult questions raised by climate change.

Climate Change in the Anthropocene reviews current science on anthropogenic sources and projections for climatic change.

Cities, rather than nations, have become the key sites for enacting environmental policies.

This book highlights the likely impacts of climate change in terms of global and national water securities, how different countries are attempting to address these complex problems and to what extent they are likely to succeed.

Urban areas are increasingly contributing to climate change while also suffering many of its impacts.

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the role of the private sector in accelerating the transition to a low-carbon, climate-resilient, and inclusive world.

This book emphasis the role of farm level adaptation as a key in developmental pathways that are challenged by climate risks in the semi-arid tropics of Asia and Africa.

'The combined analysis presented here of why current arrangements are failing the future and clear insights of the way to go, offer us hope.

Biodiversity is declining at an alarming rate due to anthropogenic activities around the world.

This textbook is focused on fundamentals of environment and ecology for undergraduate and graduate students.

While civil society and social movements claim for more effective measures to cope with anthropogenic climate change, legal scholars are witnessing the "e;aurora"e; of climate change law.

Revealing the role of discrimination in disasters challenges received wisdom about who is a refugee.

Over the last decade, the world has increasingly grappled with the complex linkages emerging between efforts to combat climate change and to protect human rights around the world.

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Presss Open Access publishing program.

This timely anthology brings together for the first time the most important ancient, medieval, Enlightenment, and modern scholarship for a complete anthropological evaluation of the relationship between culture and climate change.

Urban systems now house about half of the world's population, but determine some three quarters of the global economy and its associated energy use and resulting environmental impacts.

Engagement with and between a plurality of progressive, non-neoclassical traditions is an important step in fostering a more capacious understanding of sustainability - both as a concept and as a political objective.

Public understanding of, and outcry over, the dire state of the climate and environment is greater than ever before.

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.

This book discusses how the relationship between climate neutrality, smart eco-innovation, and environmental sustainability can be understood as well as possible with an emphasis on relevant matters and challenges of a sustainable environment.

Der Klimawandel ist allgegenwärtig und schickt sich an, auch in der Politik eine immer wichtigere Einflussgröße zu werden.

Too often amongst policy makers and thought leaders an assumption is made that we must make a choice between tackling climate change and having a strong economy; tackling climate change and allowing poorer nations to develop; tackling climate change and having a secure energy system.

Fuel Taxes and the Poor challenges the conventional wisdom that gasoline taxation, an important and much-debated instrument of climate policy, has a disproportionately detrimental effect on poor people.

Although much is known about the processes and effects of land degradation and climate change, little is understood about the links between them.

Spatiotemporal Analysis of Air Pollution and Its Application in Public Health reviews, in detail, the tools needed to understand the spatial temporal distribution and trends of air pollution in the atmosphere, including how this information can be tied into the diverse amount of public health data available using accurate GIS techniques.

This book aims to provide a comprehensive overview of how climate change affects planetary health and what this means for our collective future.

This book critically analyses how diverse Parties and non-Party stakeholders (such as subnational governments, cities, states, foundations, NGOs, civil society, multilateral organizations, and the private sector) promote climate actions through linguistic and visual symbols across multiple platforms, unveiling the underlying ideologies within these discourses.

This book examines the concept of liberty in relation to civilization's ability to live within ecological limits.

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This book considers how basic income could be used as a mechanism for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in African agrarian societies.

Information derived from climate modeling has become increasingly important in recent years.

The current climate crisis and the rapid transformation of the natural environments will inevitably pose a threat to human settlements around the world.

It is becoming increasingly recognized that for the optimal sustainable development and use of natural resources, an integrated approach to water management, agriculture, food security and energy is required.

The idea that energy shapes and is shaped by geopolitics is firmly rooted in the popular imagination - and not without reason.

Climate has for a long time been a taken-for-granted background against which social, political and economic interactions have taken place.

Although the impacts of climate change are certainly global, its manifestations and subsequent consequences begin locally.

This book presents specific case studies of climate finance in the Arctic and examines how the green revolution could be a game changer in this sensitive region.