Pollution and threats to the environment

Climate change is changing the context of spatial planning and shaping its priorities.

This volume brings together, for the first time, a wide-ranging and detailed body of information identifying and assessing risk, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in urban centres in low- and middle-income countries.

This volume brings together, for the first time, a wide-ranging and detailed body of information identifying and assessing risk, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in urban centres in low- and middle-income countries.

Highly commended in the Public Health category, BMA Medical Awards 2010 There are enormous health benefits from tackling climate change.

Highly commended in the Public Health category, BMA Medical Awards 2010 There are enormous health benefits from tackling climate change.

Climate change is an environmental problem of unprecedented complexity, not just in terms of its physical, social, economic and political impacts, but particularly in terms of the range of policy instruments being designed by countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Climate change is an environmental problem of unprecedented complexity, not just in terms of its physical, social, economic and political impacts, but particularly in terms of the range of policy instruments being designed by countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Climate change vulnerability assessment is a rapidly developing field.

Climate change vulnerability assessment is a rapidly developing field.

,Sound and solid case studies on vulnerability and adaptation have been woefully lacking in the international discourse on climate change.

,Sound and solid case studies on vulnerability and adaptation have been woefully lacking in the international discourse on climate change.

'Sound and solid case studies on vulnerability and adaptation have been woefully lacking in the international discourse on climate change.

'Sound and solid case studies on vulnerability and adaptation have been woefully lacking in the international discourse on climate change.

An area of forest the size of England is cut down in the tropics each year.

An area of forest the size of England is cut down in the tropics each year.

Complying with the forthcoming tightening of CO2 emission allocations in the EU may mean big bills for the industries affected.

Complying with the forthcoming tightening of CO2 emission allocations in the EU may mean big bills for the industries affected.

For 200 years industrial civilization has relied on the combustion of abundant and cheap carbon fuels.

For 200 years industrial civilization has relied on the combustion of abundant and cheap carbon fuels.

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.

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.

Flood hazards and the risks they present to human health are an increasing concern across the globe, in terms of lives, well-being and livelihoods, and the public resources needed to plan for, and deal with, the health impacts.

Flood hazards and the risks they present to human health are an increasing concern across the globe, in terms of lives, well-being and livelihoods, and the public resources needed to plan for, and deal with, the health impacts.

Societies need to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases by 80 per cent in order to counter the risks of climate change.

Societies need to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases by 80 per cent in order to counter the risks of climate change.

In the 1970s the world became aware of a huge danger: the destruction of the stratospheric ozone layer by CFCs escaping into the atmosphere, and the damage this could do to human health and the food chain.

In the 1970s the world became aware of a huge danger: the destruction of the stratospheric ozone layer by CFCs escaping into the atmosphere, and the damage this could do to human health and the food chain.

,Integrating intermittent renewable energy sources like wind into electricity systems must be one of the most misunderstood issues in energy policy.

,Integrating intermittent renewable energy sources like wind into electricity systems must be one of the most misunderstood issues in energy policy.

'offers knowledge and inspiration to promote renewable energy in developing and industrialized countries' Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director of UNEP From technology to financing issues, Renewable Energy offers a comprehensive and authoritative review of the determining factors that drive worldwide dissemination of renewable energy technologies.

'offers knowledge and inspiration to promote renewable energy in developing and industrialized countries' Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director of UNEP From technology to financing issues, Renewable Energy offers a comprehensive and authoritative review of the determining factors that drive worldwide dissemination of renewable energy technologies.

Understanding why renewable energy policies succeed and fail is essential for a range of stakeholders in the energy and environmental sectors.

Understanding why renewable energy policies succeed and fail is essential for a range of stakeholders in the energy and environmental sectors.

This definitive guide to developing renewable energy CDM projects in Latin America - the largest market on the doorstep of the United States - provides business leaders, investors, project developers and host country offices with the one-stop guide to successful CDM renewable energy project development.

This definitive guide to developing renewable energy CDM projects in Latin America - the largest market on the doorstep of the United States - provides business leaders, investors, project developers and host country offices with the one-stop guide to successful CDM renewable energy project development.

Global warming is the most severe environmental challenge faced by humanity today and the costs of responding effectively will be high.

Global warming is the most severe environmental challenge faced by humanity today and the costs of responding effectively will be high.

To date, climate change adaptation and mitigation have been treated separately both in research and in the climate negotiations.

To date, climate change adaptation and mitigation have been treated separately both in research and in the climate negotiations.

,This is such a timely book.

,This is such a timely book.

With the ever-increasing impacts of climate change, it is now clear that global society will have to restructure its energy systems in order to decrease carbon emissions.

With the ever-increasing impacts of climate change, it is now clear that global society will have to restructure its energy systems in order to decrease carbon emissions.

Climate change is the greatest challenge facing humanity: drastic reduction of carbon emissions is vital if we are to avoid a catastrophe that devastates large parts of the world.

Climate change is the greatest challenge facing humanity: drastic reduction of carbon emissions is vital if we are to avoid a catastrophe that devastates large parts of the world.

Heat islands are urban and suburban areas that are significantly warmer than their surroundings.

Heat islands are urban and suburban areas that are significantly warmer than their surroundings.

The world as we know it needs a new economics.

The world as we know it needs a new economics.

International agreements such as the Kyoto Protocol, EU regulation and country-specific national climate policies offer some hope of addressing climate change.