Climate change

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

The feeling of optimism that followed the COP 21 Paris Conference on Climate Change requires concrete action and steadfast commitment to a process that raises a number of crucial challenges: technological, political, social, and economic.

Explains how climatologists have come to understand current climate variability and trends through analysis of observations, datasets and models.

Life Adrift critically engages with two of the most defining issues of our contemporary global political economy: migration and climate change.

Understanding Present and Past Arctic Environments: An Integrated Approach from Climate Change Perspectives provides a fully comprehensive overview of the past, present and future outlook for this incredibly diverse and important region.

This book explores the practice of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) in the cities of the Global South.

This book analyses the key political challenges to regional energy cooperation in South Asia.

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Die meisten Arbeiten aus Forschung und Praxis betrachten Autismus defizitorientiert und zielen auf eine Anpassung des Autistischen an eine mehrheitlich nichtautistische Umwelt, was insbesondere von autistischen Menschen zunehmend kritisch gesehen wird.

More accurate forecasts of climate conditions over time periods of weeks to a few years could help people plan agricultural activities, mitigate drought, and manage energy resources, amongst other activities; however, current forecast systems have limited ability on these time- scales.

Renewable energy has never been more important than it is today, as climate change becomes arguably the world's most essential problem to be solved.

"e;Urban Climate Change Adaptation"e; is a timely and informative book that delves into the complex challenges posed by climate change and explores the pathways to achieving environmental sustainability.

The Arctic and its unique natural resources have become objects of increasing concern.

'We don't just come out once.

The term "e;food security"e; does not immediately signal research done in humanities disciplines.

Carbon Politics and the Failure of Kyoto charts the framework and political evolution of the Kyoto Protocol negotiations and examines the ensuing failure of the international community to adequately address climate change.

Global environmental change (GEC) represents an immediate and unprecedented threat to the food security of hundreds of millions of people, especially those who depend on small-scale agriculture for their livelihoods.

This book analyses over 20 years of rights-based litigation in the areas of climate change and plastic pollution in order to assess the value of rights in confronting and overcoming planetary crises.

This book offers the first comprehensive systematic theological reflection on arguably the most serious issue facing humanity and other creatures today.

This volume explores whether theatre pedagogy can and should be transformed in response to the global climate crisis.

Sustainability challenges blur the boundaries between academic disciplines, between research, policy and practice, and between states, markets and society.

Survey of climate change science for graduate students, researchers and policymakers interested in climate change.

A hard look at the twin challenges of climate change and energy scarcity that examines historical precedents and allows no room for complacency.

The TOGA (Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere) Program was designed to study short-term climate variations.

This Handbook examines the regulatory, social, financial, and technological issues pertaining to energy communities in smart cities.

At Copenhagen in December 2009, the international community agreed to limit global warming to below two degrees Celsius to avoid the worst impacts of human-induced climate change.

Current estimates of the numbers of people who will be forced from their homes as a result of climate change by the middle of the century range from 50 to 200 million.

Degrowth is a rejection of the illusion of growth and a call to repoliticize the public debate colonized by the idiom of economism.

This landmark essay collection explains the Anthropocene as a scientific concept and as a human dilemma, showing how it limits our future but liberates our imaginations.

Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment for Decision-Making: Methodologies and Case Studies gives readers a comprehensive introduction to life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) methodology for sustainability measurement of industrial systems, proposing an efficiency methodology for stakeholders and decision-makers.

This book is part of the Climate Change Management Series.

Offers hope for beating climate change by highlighting moments in history in which humans have successfully reversed environmental damage.

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

The Times Book of the Year pick'Smart, sobering, and scholarly.

Almost every country has formulated its Nationally Determined Contribution to the global response to climate change.

Being a teenager is tricky at the best of times.

A call to arms, How to Save the City invites the reader to engage with the challenges of living and working in cities at a time when several conflating emergencies have become more pressing and connected.

Living with Climate Change contains different topics on how to adapt to global warming.

A detailed review of climate change and its impacts on farming systems since the Neolithic, including anticipated future changes.

With a new afterword, Why You Are Here: A speech on the opening of the COP26 climate summitAs a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion.

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 aims to provide a better understanding of how human cultures interact with climate change over an extended period of time.

,This thoughtful and original study throws important critical light on the dominant orthodoxies about sustainable development, and suggests a radically new direction.

Blending the latest academic research with case studies of famous figures, this highly insightful book presents 'doubt' as a central concept for psychology.

American leadership and ingenuity are central to solving the climate crisis.

Environmental Sociology and Social Transformation demonstrates how sociological theory and research are critical for understanding the social drivers of global environmental destruction and the conditions for transformative change.

'Sound and solid case studies on vulnerability and adaptation have been woefully lacking in the international discourse on climate change.

This book is about environmental and climate legal protection in the energy transition.