Climate change

Electricity and Energy Transition in Nigeria provides readers with a detailed account of the dynamics of energy infrastructure change in Nigeria's electricity sector.

Net zero emissions is only the beginning.

This collection clarifies the background of land and property problems in conflict-affected settings, and explores appropriate policy measures for peace-building.

This study, based on fieldwork and case studies of southeast Asian countries shows how privatization, investment and new energy technologies can be integrated to combat climate change and provide the maximum return for investors.

The Routledge Handbook of Energy in Asia presents a comprehensive review of the unprecedented growth of Asian energy over the past quarter of a century.

This book takes a deep dive into the design and planning, and unique challenges of settlements in the European Arctic.

Climate Change Temporalities explores how various timescales, timespans, intervals, rhythms, cycles, and changes in acceleration are at play in climate change discourses.

Now that so many ecosystems face rapid and major environmental change, the ability of species to respond to these changes by dispersing or moving between different patches of habitat can be crucial to ensuring their survival.

The EU has been the region of the world where the most climate policies have been implemented, and where practical policy experimentation in the field of the environment and climate change has been taking place at a rapid pace over the last twenty-five years.

Half a century ago, many democratic states started to respond to environmental pressures that had arisen in the wake of rapid industrialization.

This book examines the history and science of forest–climate influences and forest management to mitigate climate change.

Climate Change and Sustainable Development covers the climatic and atmospheric changes, greenhouse gases and their impact on eco-system, biodiversity, water resources, agriculture and food security, human health, extreme weather and environment across two sections.

Australia's unique biodiversity is under threat from a rapidly changing climate.

A feed-in tariff is a renewable energy law that obliges energy suppliers to buy electricity produced from renewable resources at a fixed price, usually over a fixed period - even from householders.

Más allá de las ideas individuales, tres hechos son claros: el cambio climático es real, nos está causando problemas reales y tenemos herramientas reales para evitar que se agrave.

This edited volume provides both a broad overview of cooperation patterns in the UNFCCC climate change negotiations and an in-depth analysis of specific coalitions and their relations.

This book theorizes the roles of optimism in anthropological thinking, research, writing, and practice.

A fully updated, substantially expanded, new edition of acclaimed textbook for life science and Earth science students and scientists and policymakers.

Water Quality in the Third Pole: The Roles of Climate Change and Human Activities offers in-depth coverage of water quality issues (natural and human-related), the monitoring of contaminants, and the remediation of water contamination.

Windpower is a modular technology, and compared to most other power plants also rather small scale.

Utopias and the Environment explores the way in which the kind of 'dreaming', or re-visioning, known as the 'utopian imaginary' takes environmental concerns into account.

Urban sustainability citizenship situates citizens as social change agents with an ethical and self-interested stake in living sustainably with the rest of Earth.

In this honest, poignant depiction of autistic regression, Sophie Gaston explores the unexpected joys and challenges of having a child that regresses and surveys the historic and latest professional perspectives on the causes of this little-understood occurrence.

This Element addresses the often-neglected politics and governance of behaviour change needed to address the climate crisis.

This book examines the causes of effective climate policies in the US, through statistical analysis and three longitudinal case studies.

The world population is steadily increases with high rate in the past decade from 7,126 billion inhibitors in 2012 to 8,095 billion inhibitors in 2024, with 14% increase.

This book presents information on common-to-rare organisms from around the world that inhabit freshwater habitats.

The book sketches out how the criminological lens could be used in the climate change debate around possible human extinction.

Professor Ross Garnaut explains why Australia''s contribution is vital to the national interest and matters to the global effort.

The Distributed Functions of Emergency Management and Homeland Security outlines the roles and responsibilities of various individuals and agencies involved in homeland security and all aspects of emergency management.

Exploration of the top four mega-dangers facing humankind and plots a hopeful path to dealing with them through global governance.

More than half of the world's people now live in cities.

This book takes a compelling approach to describing what is needed to create the kind of future that most people on Earth really want.

Tropical and Extratropical Air-Sea Interactions: Modes of Climate Variations provides a thorough introduction to global atmospheric and oceanic processes, as well as tropical, subtropical and mid-latitude ocean-atmosphere interactions.

This book presents an integrated, multi-disciplinary analysis that combines climate science, economics, technology and political analysis of US climate policy changes undertaken during 2021.

This book offers the first critical, multi-disciplinary study of how the concepts of resilience and the Anthropocene have combined to shape contemporary thought and governmental practice.

After sweeping environmental legislation passed in the 1970s and 1980s, the 1990s ushered in an era when new legislation and reforms to existing laws were consistently caught up in a gridlock.

Cold Water Oil: Offshore Petroleum Cultures is a collection of essays examining how societies conceive of fossil fuel extraction in the inhospitable but fragile waters of the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans.

Federal agencies have taken steps to include the public in a wide range of environmental decisions.

This book highlights the evaluation and assessment of various aspects of sustainable buildings to achieve a greener future.

Amidst the pressing challenges of global climate change, the last decade has seen a wave of forest carbon projects across the world, designed to conserve and enhance forest carbon stocks in order to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and offset emissions elsewhere.

The interplay between land use and climate change is a crucial aspect of sustainable development, especially in Nepal.

This book traces the history and implementation of regulation programs for state crude oil production.

Fifteen climate experts combine forces to present a plan for slowing and ultimately preventing further destruction to our planet.

Mit seinem Begriff der »Scheinmündigkeit« platzt der Kulturanthropologe Dieter Schimang mitten hinein in die große Party, die die Aufklärung seit dem 18.