As the world deals with Climate Change it has become clear that the time for delays is over and we need to come up with a complete time bound plan that is adequate in preventing excessive temperature rise and then to implement it!
Evergreen your landscape with the beauty and benefits of conifersGrowing Conifers is a beautifully photographed, comprehensive gardening guide for selecting and cultivating conifers.
Real world stories from the frontlines of climate change, resilience, and the future of foodPractical insights and plenty of examples of how we can reshape our food system to one that is resilient and regenerative.
Building grit and hope in the face of the climate emergencyWith catastrophic global warming already baked into the climate system, today's children face a future entirely unlike that of their parents.
The only metric that tracks how much nature we have - and how much nature we useEcological Footprint accounting, first introduced in the 1990s and continuously developed, continues to be the only metric that compares overall human demand on nature with what our planet can renew its biocapacity and distils this into one number: how many Earths we use.
Essential, visionary essays about our post-carbon futureClimate change, along with the depletion of oil, coal, and gas dictate that we will inevitably move away from our profound societal reliance on fossil fuels; but just how big a transformation will this be?
'A stunner' THE TIMES'Sublime' HANNAH KENT'Magnificent' TIM WINTONThe explosive story of outcast twins Iris and Floyd as they join a hunt through the wilderness for a man-killing puma.
Sustainable Urbanisation in the Caribbean critically examines the socio-geographic context of island states, prioritising the nuanced experiences of Caribbean island states and territories that are largely considered small island developing states (SIDS), against the backdrop of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Environmental contamination and climate change-induced abiotic stresses, such as high or low temperature, water logging or drought, high salinity, pesticides, heavy metals, and radiation like ultra-violet are detrimental to plant growth and development, leading to great loss in crop yield worldwide.
Managing the vast energy resources, addressing the health and environmental impacts of energy production, and understanding the role of public lands in mitigating climate change are just a few of the critical issues discussed in this book.
Lake ecosystems are known to be valid sentinels for current climate changes and anthropogenic pressure because they provide indicators of these impacts either directly or indirectly through the influence of climate and human activity on their catchments.
This edited and peer reviewed volume contains a collection of articles from many disciplines that address the emerging issue of ambient ultrafine particles derived from combustion sources and their health effects.
Chapter 1 focuses on the science to understand the physical processes and projections of mass loss of the major ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, as well as of mountain and other land-based glaciers.
CO2 capture from gaseous effluents is one of the great challenges faced by chemical and environmental engineering, as the increase of CO2 levels in the Earth's atmosphere might be responsible for dramatic climate changes.
When thinking of the leaders of Asia who brought landmark prosperity to their respective nations from the second half of the 20th century, two leaders immediately come to mind: late Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore and Dr.
Metals are important environmental pollutants and their toxicity is a problem of increasing significance for ecological, nutritional, and environmental reasons.
Desertification is one of the most important issues facing our societies because of its serious consequences for human health, landscape and the environment.
Over the past few decades, agriculture and related sectors in West Africa have been challenged by climate change, which has become one of the most important developmental issues in the region.
Green Technology for Bioremediation of Environmental Pollution has significant importance in its fields, since it comprises the current information of basic concepts and various advanced research aspects of bioremediation related green technologies for controlling environmental pollution.
