Pollution and threats to the environment Books

This book analyses the impact of two vital and contemporary developments on shipping law and practice: disruptive technologies and climate change. It considers the impact of these new technologies, honing in on likely emerging issues and unresolved...

Higher education institutions are positioned to lead the global response to climate change and drive progress toward sustainability. Through their core missions of education, research, and community engagement, universities and colleges serve as...

In the digital era, inclusive finance is utilized for both economic empowerment and environmental sustainability. With various challenges in financial inequality and climate change, digital financial services offer opportunities to bridge the gap between...

In the heart of Tirana, the bustling capital of Albania, a retired ‎professor named Din Bedell has ignited a remarkable ‎movement, one he fondly calls 'Mission'. His visionary goal: to ‎awaken the slumbering conscience of government to the ‎pressing...

 Imagine:  you're blindsided on a dark highway by a half-mile-wide tornado.  Or worse:  you're aboard a commercial jetliner brought to the ground by a powerful thunderstorm-the deadliest plane crash in Texas history.    ...

In this gripping and deeply personal account, Will Slater plunges into the front lines of the climate change activist movement. As Slater navigates the twists and turns of this formidable journey, he unveils a potent mix of passion, fear, despair, and...

This book studies the role of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as an advocate for greater environmental responsibility and analyses the major achievements and outcomes of two landmark conferences - Stockholm (1972) and Rio (1992) - which...

The truth about the earth we live on. Everything we create, consume, build, manufacture and waste comes from the earth and returns to the earth, from dust to dust. Everything that happens on the earth, has a purpose. Man cannot change the earth's nature!...

Il libro ""Il Meccanismo Dell' Evoluzione E Della Degenerazione: Delle Specie Animali E Dell' Uomo"" ����� stato scritto da Francesco Magri nel 1893. Questo testo si concentra sull'evoluzione delle specie animali e dell'uomo, esplorando il meccanismo di...

Entwicklungsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen (1892) von Frantisek Vejdovsky ist ein wissenschaftliches Buch, das sich mit der Entwicklungs- und Evolutionsgeschichte von Tieren besch�����ftigt. Der Autor untersucht verschiedene Arten von Tieren und...

""Die Homologie der Extremit�����ten: Morphologische Studien"" ist ein Buch von Paul Eisler, das im Jahr 1895 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Das Buch besch�����ftigt sich mit der Homologie, also der strukturellen �����hnlichkeit, von Extremit�����ten bei...

""Collezione Dell' Opere V3"" ����� un libro scritto da Alessandro Volta e pubblicato nel 1816. Questo volume raccoglie una serie di opere dell'autore, tra cui scritti scientifici e letterari. Alessandro Volta ����� stato un famoso scienziato italiano,...

The New Science Review V2: A Miscellany Of Modern Thought And Discovery is a book published in 1895 by the Transatlantic Publishing Company. The book is a compilation of various scientific articles and essays written by prominent scientists and scholars...

This volume offers insights into the steps and challenges involved in this transition and addresses some urgent questions about the possible pathways for India's renewable energy generation.

This book provides an account of how rectificatory justice for climate change loss and damage is possible and provides an extensive response to its challenges.

This volume brings together academics working at differing intersections of environmental education and new materialisms, highlighting tensions, knots, and lines of flight across and for research, practice, and theory. This book was originally published...

Written by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Rapporteur of Weather and Climate Extremes, this book addresses the reality of extreme weather-how does it occur; how do we measure it; and what does it mean for our future.

Physiology of Growth and Development in Horticultural Plants contains 22 chapters organized into six sections, beginning with an introduction on basic concepts of plant growth and development; followed by genetic basis of plant development;...

This book explores the role of feminist activists in The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and highlights the progress they have made in mainstreaming gender as a key issue in global climate governance. It is now commonplace for...

Climate Myths is both a primer on climate change and a definitive rebuttal of climate science denial. The book can thus be used to help educate students, teachers, and the general public about the controversy over climate change. Climate Myths puts the...

Over the last century, the world has lived through changes more rapid than those experienced at any other time in human history, leading to pressing environmental problems and demands on the world's finite resources. Nowhere is this more evident than...

From Evolution to Extinction, A Primer on Global Warming delivers one message: global warming presents an imminent threat to the existence of almost all living things including the human species. Technological advances are compounding our efforts to deal...

Everyone knows that fossil fuels won't last forever. Something needs to change at some point, regardless of whether the issue is climate change or because we need a practical replacement for petroleum as cheap supplies run out.But while headlines suggest...

Few would dispute the power of climate change to lead to profoundly destructive weather events. At the same time, the possibility of climate change as a consequence-or even a cause-of criminal events is far less recognized. As the earth grows warmer,...

Climate Change and Human Well-Being.- SECTION I: The Impact of Climate Change.- Gradual Environmental Changes.- Effects of Temperature and Heat Stress.- Extreme Weather-Related Events.- Social and Economic Stressors.- Climate Change Refugees and...

Introduction: Climate change risks, mitigation and adaptation.- Introduction: Climate change risks, mitigation and adaptation.- Climate change risks and risk assessment Climate change risks and risk assessment.- Rising natural catastrophe losses - what...

This imaginative and empowering book explores the ways that our emotions entangle us with climate change and offers strategies for engaging with climate anxiety that can contribute to social transformation. Climate educator Blanche Verlie draws on...

We have an imperative, as never before, to change our ways. Climate change is presenting the entire human race with its greatest ever existential challenge. Like many I feel a growing sense of looming disaster.

During the twenty-first century, Mexico has escalated extractive concessions at the same time that it has positioned itself as an international leader in the fight against climate change. Cultural production emergent from this contradiction frames this...

A prolific poet as a child, Barbara Drake-Vera loved writing almost as much as she adored her father, a moody postal employee with an elaborate comb-over and a fondness for Mahler. But when her successes sparked his rage, Barbara silenced her voice for...

Das Buch ""Das Reductionsgesetz Der Bluthen: Das Dedoublement Und Die Obdiplostemonie"" von Celakovsky, Ladislav Josef wurde 1894 ver������ffentlicht. Es behandelt das Thema der Reduktion von Bl�����ten und besch�����ftigt sich insbesondere mit dem...

Das Buch ""Das Mechanische Warmeaquivalent"" von James Prescott Joule wurde im Jahr 1872 ver������ffentlicht und ist ein wichtiger Beitrag zur Thermodynamik. Joule ist bekannt f�����r seine Arbeit auf dem Gebiet der W�����rmeenergie und hat in diesem...

How did a 15-acre contaminated harbour area in Victoria, B.C., once nicknamed "Darkside," become Dockside Green, the world's most sustainable development? This book explains how community connection and sustainability can be achieved...

Embracing full systems sustainability offers the major business innovation opportunity of our time - but the road map to sustainable transformation is not always clear. This guidebook demystifies the transformation process by laying out what...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Politik - Klima- und Umweltpolitik, Note: 2,7, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität - Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg, Veranstaltung: Seminar, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Könnte ein internationales Regime den...

Master's Thesis from the year 2018 in the subject Psychology - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,0, Lund University (Department of Psychology), language: English, abstract: Climate change has become one of the greatest concerns of the 21st century as its...

Although The Alien Chronicles dates back to 1987, I only discovered that I was an alien in 1992 when beings from another planet pointed their fingers at me in their sky.Mastering the art of meditation had made astral travel possible.In March of 2009, the...

Focuses on the most interesting and important properties of biodiversity hotspot of Western Ghats and Sri Lanka, covering physiography and climatology, vegetation and forest types, amphibian and reptile biodiversity, genetic diversity of crops and...

A COURSE IN SPECTACULAR CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR CURIOUS MATURE STUDENTSText questions with answers after every chapter.The book engages with the science and technology of energy supply and consumption, in 41 easy 'lessons', with latest...

Dear Indy: A Father's Plea for Climate Action is a clarion call to humanity to look inside itself and see the damage our species is inflicting on the natural world, the animals that share our incredible planet, and how this is affecting our...