Pollution and threats to the environment

Displacement caused by climate change is an area of growing concern.

Displacement caused by climate change is an area of growing concern.

In 2005, The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) provided the first global assessment of the world's ecosystems and ecosystem services.

In 2005, The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) provided the first global assessment of the world's ecosystems and ecosystem services.

Climate change, nuclear proliferation, and the threat of a global pandemic have the potential to impact each of our lives.

The international framework for a climate change agreement is up for review as the initial Kyoto period to 2012 comes to an end.

Since 2005 the carbon market has grown to a value of nearly $100 billion per annum.

Since 2005 the carbon market has grown to a value of nearly $100 billion per annum.

The tragic recognition of the extinction of the Yangtze River Dolphin or baiji in 2007 became a major news story and sent shockwaves around the world.

'Systemic management' describes a holistic, objective and universally applicable form of management, providing a framework for addressing environmental challenges such as global warming, emergent diseases, deforestation, overpopulation, the extinction crisis, pollution, over-fishing, and habitat destruction.

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is scarcely ten years old, but even in these early years of its existence it has generated debate, controversy and even outrage.

Bioinvasions and Globalization synthesises our current knowledge of the ecology and economics of biological invasions, providing an in-depth evaluation of the science and its implications for managing the causes and consequences of one of the most pressing environmental issues facing humanity today.

The international framework for a climate change agreement is up for review as the initial Kyoto period to 2012 comes to an end.

The tragic recognition of the extinction of the Yangtze River Dolphin or baiji in 2007 became a major news story and sent shockwaves around the world.

How will biodiversity loss affect ecosystem functioning, ecosystem services, and human well-being?

'Systemic management' describes a holistic, objective and universally applicable form of management, providing a framework for addressing environmental challenges such as global warming, emergent diseases, deforestation, overpopulation, the extinction crisis, pollution, over-fishing, and habitat destruction.

'Grow first, clean up later' environmental strategies in the developing economies of East Asia - China, Korea, and Taiwan in Northeast Asia and Indonesia, Malaysia, the Phillippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam in Southeast Asia - pose a critical regional and global sustainability challenge in this area of continuing rapid urban-based industrial growth.

This is the first book to describe the ecology of high latitude lakes, rivers and glacial environments in both the North and South polar regions.

Temperature profoundly impacts both the phenotypes and distributions of organisms.

There is now an increased awareness of the importance of polar regions in the Earth system, as well as their vulnerability to anthropogenic derived change, including of course global climate change.

A multi-disciplinary analysis of the evolution of water politics and policy by an international team of distinguished experts.

Radiation theory and measurements are at the core of the climate change debate.

Climate change, nuclear proliferation, and the threat of a global pandemic have the potential to impact each of our lives.

Forest conservation has become one of the most important environmental issues currently facing humanity, as a result of widespread deforestation and forest degradation.

Tropical forests represent the world's most biodiverse ecosystems and play a key role in hydrology, carbon storage and exchange.

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is scarcely ten years old, but even in these early years of its existence it has generated debate, controversy and even outrage.

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

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

This book presents important recent applied mathematics research on environmental problems and impacts due to climate change.

This book discusses the need for the development of sustainable environmental protection technologies to reduce the impact of environmental contaminants.

Environmental public health is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the direct and indirect impact of exposure to environmental hazards on the public's health and wellbeing.

Environmental public health is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the direct and indirect impact of exposure to environmental hazards on the public's health and wellbeing.

Coral reefs represent the most spectacular and diverse marine ecosystem on the planet as well as a critical source of income for millions of people.

More than seventy percent of the earth's surface is covered by ocean - the home to a staggering and sometimes overwhelming diversity of organisms, a majority of which reside in pelagic form.

India is killing the Ganges, and the Ganges in turn is killing India.

India is killing the Ganges, and the Ganges in turn is killing India.

This book offers a multidisciplinary analysis of the degradation process of an ecosystem, drawing upon the Mar Menor as a case study to highlight the damage human pressure causes to the environment.

In times of climate change and public debt, a concern for intergenerational justice should lead us to have a closer look at theories of intergenerational justice.

The evidence presented in the recently released Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) suggests strongly that continued failure to make meaningful cuts to greenhouse gas emissions could bring about disastrous results for the human community, especially for future generations.

Climate change is a pressing international political issue, for which a practical but principled solution is urgently required.

This book examines the implications of geographical change for maritime jurisdiction under the law of the sea.

This book examines the implications of geographical change for maritime jurisdiction under the law of the sea.

The Law of International Watercourses is an authoritative guide to the rules of international law governing the navigational and non-navigational uses of international rivers, lakes, and groundwater.

The Law of International Watercourses is an authoritative guide to the rules of international law governing the navigational and non-navigational uses of international rivers, lakes, and groundwater.

As a society, we use more than 100,000 different industrial compounds to promote health and treat disease, to grow food and to access clean water.

A multitude of direct and indirect human influences have significantly altered the environmental conditions, composition, and diversity of marine communities.

A multitude of direct and indirect human influences have significantly altered the environmental conditions, composition, and diversity of marine communities.

Anthropogenic climate change poses a grave threat to societies around the world.

It is beyond doubt that the climate is changing, presenting us with one of the biggest challenges in the twenty-first-century.

The fruit of twenty years of moral reflection on the emerging greatest challenge to humanity of the 21st century, these far-sighted and influential essays by a pioneering practical philosopher on the tangled questions of justice between nations and justice across generations confronting all attempts at international cooperation in controlling climate change sharply crystallize the central choices and offer constructive directions forward.