Pollution and threats to the environment

What is the answer to inspiring sustainable behaviour?

What is the answer to inspiring sustainable behaviour?

A world of 9 billion people by mid-century will demand fundamental changes in our mindsets, behaviors, cultures, and overarching paradigm.

A world of 9 billion people by mid-century will demand fundamental changes in our mindsets, behaviors, cultures, and overarching paradigm.

Low carbon technology transfer to developing countries has been both a lynchpin of, and a key stumbling block to a global deal on climate change.

Low carbon technology transfer to developing countries has been both a lynchpin of, and a key stumbling block to a global deal on climate change.

With more than half of the world's population now living in urban areas, it is vitally important that towns and cities are healthy places to live.

With more than half of the world's population now living in urban areas, it is vitally important that towns and cities are healthy places to live.

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) has emerged rapidly as a crucial technological option for decarbonising electricity supply and mitigating climate change.

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) has emerged rapidly as a crucial technological option for decarbonising electricity supply and mitigating climate change.

Renewable and carbon-neutral energy have been promoted as the future of energy production in the United States.

Renewable and carbon-neutral energy have been promoted as the future of energy production in the United States.

The United States produces over seventy percent of all its electricity from fossil fuels and nearly fifty percent from coal alone.

The United States produces over seventy percent of all its electricity from fossil fuels and nearly fifty percent from coal alone.

Climate change impacts are scale and context specific, and cities are likely to bear some of the greatest costs.

Climate change impacts are scale and context specific, and cities are likely to bear some of the greatest costs.

Urban systems now house about half of the world's population, but determine some three quarters of the global economy and its associated energy use and resulting environmental impacts.

Urban systems now house about half of the world's population, but determine some three quarters of the global economy and its associated energy use and resulting environmental impacts.

Environmental change presents a new context and new opportunities for transformational change.

Environmental change presents a new context and new opportunities for transformational change.

There are two questions often asked of risk communication: what has been learned from past work, and what is needed to push the field forward?

There are two questions often asked of risk communication: what has been learned from past work, and what is needed to push the field forward?

Disasters both natural and human-induced are leading to spiralling costs in terms of human lives, lost livelihoods and damaged assets and businesses.

Disasters both natural and human-induced are leading to spiralling costs in terms of human lives, lost livelihoods and damaged assets and businesses.

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

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

Combating climate change will increasingly impact on production industries and the workers they employ as production changes and consumption is targeted.

Combating climate change will increasingly impact on production industries and the workers they employ as production changes and consumption is targeted.

Through its exploration of the spatial dimension of risk, this book offers a brand new approach to theorizing risk, and significant improvements in how to manage, tolerate and take risks.

Through its exploration of the spatial dimension of risk, this book offers a brand new approach to theorizing risk, and significant improvements in how to manage, tolerate and take risks.

We urgently need to transform to a low carbon society, yet our progress is painfully slow, in part because there is widespread public concern that this will require sacrifice and high costs.

We urgently need to transform to a low carbon society, yet our progress is painfully slow, in part because there is widespread public concern that this will require sacrifice and high costs.

Low Carbon Development: Key Issues is the first comprehensive textbook to address the interface between international development and climate change in a carbon constrained world.

Low Carbon Development: Key Issues is the first comprehensive textbook to address the interface between international development and climate change in a carbon constrained world.

This book makes an important and timely contribution to debates about the relationship between climate change and security in Southeast Asia.

This book makes an important and timely contribution to debates about the relationship between climate change and security in Southeast Asia.

As climate change adaptation rises up the international policy agenda, matched by increasing funds and frameworks for action, there are mounting questions over how to ensure the needs of vulnerable people on the ground are met.

As climate change adaptation rises up the international policy agenda, matched by increasing funds and frameworks for action, there are mounting questions over how to ensure the needs of vulnerable people on the ground are met.

As the Kyoto Protocol limps along without the participation of the US and Australia, on-going climate negotiations are plagued by competing national and business interests that are creating stumbling blocks to success.

As the Kyoto Protocol limps along without the participation of the US and Australia, on-going climate negotiations are plagued by competing national and business interests that are creating stumbling blocks to success.

Climate change is now the biggest challenge faced by humanity worldwide and ethics is the crucial missing component in the debate about what to do about this enormous threat.

Climate change is now the biggest challenge faced by humanity worldwide and ethics is the crucial missing component in the debate about what to do about this enormous threat.

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.

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.

Nuclear power is often characterized as a "e;green technology.

Nuclear power is often characterized as a "e;green technology.

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing human kind owing to the great uncertainty regarding future impacts, which affect all regions and many ecosystems.

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing human kind owing to the great uncertainty regarding future impacts, which affect all regions and many ecosystems.

Humanity is dependent on Nature to survive, yet our society largely acts as if this is not the case.

Humanity is dependent on Nature to survive, yet our society largely acts as if this is not the case.