Climate change

Nourished by fears of global warming and climate change, water has become an issue of international concern.

Scientists and politicians are increasingly using the language of risk to describe the climate change challenge.

The Arctic: land of ice and the six-month day; irresistible goal for explorers and adventurers; enduring source of romance and mystery - and now also a poignant and unavoidable indicator of the impact of climate change.

Climate change is perhaps the most important issue of our time and yet despite the urgency of the problem, the measures necessary to mitigate it have not been implemented.

Scientists and politicians are increasingly using the language of risk to describe the climate change challenge.

The planet is under threat.

This volume provides a valuable platform for knowledge exchange between different disciplines and for learning from both theory and practice in the context of tourism and climate change.

The importance of Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) is increasing due, in part, to recent major disasters throughout the world.

Following on from Volume 4 in this series, which looked at issues and challenges with regard to Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Volume 5 has a specific focus on Asia.

This book presents principles of animal biodiversity, its importance, sustainable utilization, and conservation.

The City is an Ecosystem maps an interdisciplinary, community-engaged response to the great ecological crises of our time-climate change, biodiversity loss, and social inequality-which pose particular challenges for cities, where more than half the world's population currently live.

In his enthusiastic explorations and fervent writing, Michael J.

Climate change is here.

At the Precipice explores the question many of us have asked ourselves: What kind of world are we leaving to our children?

Written with clarity, tenacity, humor, and warmth, A Hundred Little Pieces on the End of the World attempts to find tolerable ethical positions in the face of barely tolerable events-and the real possibility of an intolerable future.

Wyoming's colorful story of water management illuminates the powerful forces that impact water use in the rural American West.

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

During the past decade, skepticism about climate change has frustrated those seeking to engage broad publics and motivate them to take action on the issue.

In Energy without Conscience David McDermott Hughes investigates why climate change has yet to be seen as a moral issue.

In Facing the Planetary William E.

The Kyoto Protocol represents nearly a decade of international effort to reduce carbon emissions.

Across contemporary Asia, each day dawns with a new story about living in an era of profound environmental change.

RECIPIENT OF THE 2018 IZZY AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM Every so often a book comes along that can dramatically change, or elevate, one's thinking about a global problem.

Familiar modes of problem solving may be efficient, but they often prevent us from discovering innovative solutions to more complex problems.

Though the scientific community largely agrees that climate change is underway, debates about this issue remain fiercely polarized.

In Oil and Gas Waste Governance, Zachary Mahafza, Joseph A.

Strengthening Disaster Risk Governance to Manage Disaster Risk presents the second principle from the UNISDR Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, 2015-2030.

The insurance industry has found itself at the front line of climate change challenges, providing insurance cover in relation to risks associated with climate change.

First Published in 1965, The Climate of London considers the nature of London's climate, including the manner and degree to which this varies in sympathy with changes in the city's morphology, and studying in particular the contrasts between the built-up area and the surrounding rural districts.

A Celebration of Everyone Who Fulfills Their Purpose Through Unexpected ChallengesUntil two years of age, Craig and Samantha's son Connor was just like other kids playful, verbal, and affectionate.

The twenty-first century is a period of great environmental and social transformation as climate change increasingly marks lives at levels that are personal, familial, communal, national, and global.

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?

A remarkable and moving journey through Arctic history into an uncertain future, highlighting Inuit as well as European and Canadian perspectives.

The Arctic is ruled by ice.

Fully revised and updated for its third edition, this book presents the definitive compilation of current knowledge on all aspects of biochar.

The book explores the available omics resources, the integration of multi-omics data, and systems biology methods, focusing on their applications in cereals breeding and research.

'Our relationship with nature has changed .

Voces Wayuu del Agua y el Viento: Encuentros Ontológicos en la Guajira frente a la Transición Energética es una obra que nos invita a sumergirnos en la cosmovisión Wayuu, un pueblo que entiende el mundo a través de los sueños y el respeto profundo por el agua y el viento.

In The Future, former US Vice President Al Gore, explores the political, social and economic forces that are shaping what America and the world will become in ensuing decades.

The heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful story of an abandoned polar bear cub named Nora and the humans working tirelessly to save her and her species, whose uncertain future in the accelerating climate crisis is closely tied to our own.

The Top Ten BestsellerBlack holes.

We live in a world that is increasingly difficult to understand.

Climate change seems to be an insurmountable problem.

This bold and important new book presents current and emerging thinking on the social dimensions of climate change.

Since 2009, a diverse group of developing states that includes China, Brazil, Ethiopia and Costa Rica has been advancing unprecedented pledges to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, offering new, unexpected signs of climate leadership.

Governments have failed to stem global emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases causing climate change.

Globalization and the Environment critically explores the actors, politics and processes that govern the relationship between globalization and the environment.

Climate change poses one of the greatest challenges for human society in the twenty-first century, yet there is a major disconnect between our actions to deal with it and the gravity of the threat it implies.

Since 2009, a diverse group of developing states that includes China, Brazil, Ethiopia and Costa Rica has been advancing unprecedented pledges to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, offering new, unexpected signs of climate leadership.