Climate change

Witnessing at first-hand the failure of the Copenhagen Climate Conference and wondering what went wrong, Andrew Charlton realised the truth of a colleagues words: The world is split between those who want to save the planet and those who want to save themselves.

Asperger's Syndrome is a complicated condition that is often misunderstood and misdiagnosed.

This book presents an accessible and easy-to-follow argument that the climate crisis is a side effect of inequality and injustice, and demonstrates how strategies such as large-scale social investment will prove far more effective in reducing greenhouse gas pollution than cap-and-trade or other forms of free-market environmentalism.

Society is an ultrasocial superorganism whose requirements take precedence over individuals.

Somos los del tiempo de TVE, los mismos que entramos cada día en vuestras casas para avanzaros si viene una ola de calor, lluvias torrenciales o la nevada del siglo.

It is widely accepted in the scientific community that climate change is a reality, and that changes are happening with increasing rapidity.

How the planet''s two largest greenhouse gas emitters navigate climate policy.

The Arctic Tundra and adjacent Boreal Forest or Taiga support the most cold-adapted flora and fauna on Earth.

"e;Sustainable Synergy: Harnessing Ecosystems for Climate Resilience"e; will assemble a diverse collection of expert perspectives to explore the crucial relationship between ecosystems and climate resilience comprehensively.

A comprehensive summary of tropical cyclone variability at time scales from intraseasonal and interannual to interdecadal and centennial.

'He'll grow out of it,' my friends told me.

Personal carbon trading is rapidly moving up the political agenda as recognition grows of its potential to address urgent issues of climate change and natural resource use.

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.

This volume showcases how the climate change phenomena (CCP) have been causing multifaceted threats to humankind through increasing numbers of extreme events, affecting social, economic, and human development worldwide.

An overview of the forms of agency in urban climate politics, discussing their strengths, limitations, and the power dynamics between them.

An internationally recognized expert on the geology of barrier islands, Orrin H.

When the Nuclear Safety Commission in Japan reviewed safety-design guidelines for nuclear plants in 1990, the regulatory agency explicitly ruled out the need to consider prolonged AC power loss.

Accelerating sustainable energy transitions away from carbon-based fuel sources needs to be high on the agendas of developing countries.

This book offers an eclectic range of transdisciplinary insights into the role of metaphor, myth and fable in shaping our understanding of the world and how we interact with it and with each other.

'The global oil industry is an exceptionally complex one, and its importance to governments, business and society as a whole is immense.

Climate change is now the biggest challenge faced by humanity worldwide and ethics is the crucial missing component in the debate about what to do about this enormous threat.

The book focuses on the key contemporary issue of Climate change, constructing the narrative from traditions' of Urbanism through its Axiology and Epistemology.

In recent years, growing national and international networks are challenging the two dominant 'emergency' narratives that relate to the Covid pandemic and Climate Change.

The gender-differentiated and more severe impacts of armed conflict upon women and girls are well recognised by the international community, as demonstrated by UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 on Women, Peace and Security and subsequent resolutions.

With increases in global temperatures, the risk of overheating is expected to rise around the world.

This handbook brings together leading international academic experts to provide a comprehensive and authoritative survey of global environmental politics.

Climate and Land Use Impacts on Natural and Artificial Systems: Mitigation and Adaptation provides in-depth information on the linkages between climate change and land use, how they are related, how land use is shifting over time, and the major global regions at risk for climate and land use changes.

In this significantly revised third edition, Designing Zero Carbon Buildings combines embodied and operational emissions into a structured approach for achieving zero emissions by a specific year with certainty.

Asia must be at the center of the global fight against climate change.

"e;There are so many things I wish I could have told my parents when I was a child, but back then I did not have the words.

This book examines whether a global consensus is emerging on climate change and human mobility and presents evidence of a slow-moving but dynamic, step-by-step process of international policy development on climate-related mobility.

Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, but few would consider it a social good.

Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast is a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of global warming.

Wie gerecht kann eine Welt in der Klimakrise sein?

In Considering Climate Change, Kimberley R.

In May 2013, China, India, Japan, Singapore and South Korea (Asia 5) were given status as permanent observers in the Arctic Council.

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

This IPCC Special Report is a comprehensive assessment of our understanding of global warming of 1.

This book highlights the impact of COVID-19 on sustainable waste management and air emission, using various case studies.

Artículos que abren la discusión sobre los desafíos que el cambio climático plantea al país, la relación entre desarrollo sostenible, economía y pobreza, la seguridad energética e hídrica en el Perú, la gestión climática y la de los bosques y servicios ecosistémicos.

The Great Global Warming Blunder unveils new evidence from major scientific findings that explode the conventional wisdom on climate change and reshape the global warming debate as we know it.

Based on state-of-the-art science and technologies, this book disseminates the latest advancements concerning the relationship between renewable energy and climate change and presents the best practices to further utilize renewable energy for mitigation.

Wind power is developing rapidly, in terms of both the number of new installations and in interest from stakeholders including policy-makers, NGOs, research scientists, industry and the general public.

This book presents a global and historical perspective of energy flows during the last millennium.