Climate change Books

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of climate change-related investigations carried out by Indian researchers through initiatives in southern high latitude regions.

Much current commentary on climate change, both secular and theological, focuses on the duties of individual citizens to reduce their consumption of fossil fuels. In A Political Theology of Climate Change, however, Michael Northcott discusses nations as...

This book interrogates the contributions that religious traditions have made to climate change discussions within Africa. Drawing on a range of African contexts and religious traditions, the book provides suggestions on how individuals and communities of...

Featuring a stellar international cast list of leading and cutting-edge scholars, The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of the Environment presents the state of the art of the discipline that considers ecological issues and crises from a...

Das Buch folgt dem Trend, die Eigenschaften des "Wasserplaneten" zu skizzieren, aber eine andere Vision des Ganzen anzunehmen. Anstatt nur einen bestimmten Aspekt zu vertiefen (z. B. den wissenschaftlich-technischen oder den sozialen), betrachtete man...

Embark on a Transformative Journey: Weaving Together Heritage, Innovation, and Ethical Stewardship for a Sustainable FutureOur Changing World: Navigating Change in a Sustainable, Interconnected World is an enlightening series that intricately weaves...

Ride the Echoes of the Past into a Luminous Future Imagine a future where civilization thrives in perfect harmony with nature. A Sustainable Civilization: Historical Echoes and Modern Challenges charts a course through our past to steer the ship of...

Climate change is expected to influence several productive sectors, the most significant of which is agriculture. Agriculture comprises an important sector of the global economy that includes crops, livestock, and seafood. Agriculture, aquaculture, and...

Global warming will either grab your interest or see you running in the opposite direction. But there is another way. It is a truth that is never realized, a truth that cannot surface once buried in the media and in politicians' singlespeak, and a truth...

It is the purpose of this book to provide the meteorological knowledge and tools to improve the risk management of energy industry decisions, ranging from the long term finance and engineering planning assessments to the short term operational measures...

This book explores the challenges climate change poses to the endurance of democracy, situating this theme within the context of the decline in global freedom documented since the early 21st century.

This book introduces readers to the known psychological aspects of climate change as a pressing global concern and explores how it is relevant to current and future clinical practice.

This book examines the issues that cause environmental activists to become despondent and disheartened.

Climate Change Law and Policy in the Middle East and North Africa Region provides an in-depth and authoritative examination of the guiding principles of climate change law and policy in the MENA region. This volume introduces readers to the latest...

The planet is facing an existential crisis. Modern humans, in particular under capitalism, have being doing irreversible damage to the ecosystems. An exit strategy from fossil energy and intensive animal agriculture is urgent. It must be based on a...

Jeremy Webb draws on multiple disciplines to piece together the climate change puzzle, identifying what it would take to limit climate change and its impacts. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, environmental...

This book brings together a team of renowned social scientists to ask not why climate change is happening, but how we might learn from its human dimensions to raise public and political will to fight against the climate crisis.

Climate change poses questions of intergenerational justice, but some of its features make it difficult to determine whether we have obligations of climate justice to future generations. This book offers a novel argument, justifying the present...

This book explores the capacity of different stakeholders to work together and build urban resilience to climate change through an equity-centered approach to cross-sectoral collaboration. Urban areas, where the majority of the global population dwells,...

The first stage of climate change was the prehistoric to present deforestation, which leads to desertification and stops water from reducing the heat generated by solar radiation. This heat is the driver behind global warming, which is amplified by the...

Coming Back to Earth: Essays on the Church, Climate Change, Cities, Agriculture and Eating is a thought-provoking collection of essays that delves into some of the most pressing issues of our time: climate change, urbanization, agriculture, and food...

This book explores how climate institutions in industrialized countries work to further the recognition of social differences and integrate this understanding in climate policy making.With contributions from a range of expert scholars in the field, this...

"Quench the Fire" is a comprehensive review of the subject of climate change, from a description of the basic science to the presentation of a detailed plan to mitigate the effects. A quantitative approach is used, where each mitigating strategy is...

This book presents ideas for strengthening the foundations for transformational change, polar and global education leadership in all stages of the education process.

Recognizing that climate politics has been an increasingly contentious and heated topic in Australia over the past two decades, this book examines Australian capitalism as a driver of climate change and the nexus between the corporations and Coalition...

This volume outlines the specific conditions and responses to climate change in India. It discusses various aspects of the planetary crisis that have acquired widespread global urgency: global warming induced by anthropogenic emissions, largely owing to...

Climate change has been a significant area of scientific concern since the late 1970s, but has only recently entered mainstream culture and politics. However, as media coverage of climate change increases in the twenty-first century, the gap between our...

This book aims to develop a framework for the assessment of population 'preferences in climate change mitigation policies by applying a Willingness to Pay (WTP) approach and presents the results from several case studies in Lithuania on renewable energy...

This book analyses the role of renewables in driving the low carbon transition in agriculture, explores the circular bio-based economy, examines policies and strategies designed to facilitate low carbon transition in agriculture, and greenhouse gas...

Simple, consistent preparation and staying informed is possible and will make all the difference.The idea for a practical guide began in the first few days after catastrophic Category 5 Hurricane Irma took a direct hit on the British Virgin Islands (BVI)...

This book provides an overview of the geopolitical context and climate change risk profile of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region.

This book studies developments in India's energy system from a governance perspective. It presents a unique compilation and synthesis of research findings that captures achievements, shortcomings, and persistent and transient challenges of India's...

This book compares how the social consequences of climate change are similarly unevenly distributed within China and the USA, despite different political systems. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate justice and...

HOW BIG IS GLOBAL WARMING?ACTUAL AVERAGE TEMPERATURESACTUAL WINTER TEMPERATURESWHAT CAN WE COMPARE GLOBAL WARMING TO?SEASONAL WARMING (WINTER TO SUMMER)THE ACTUAL TEMPERATURE IN DIFFERENT CITIESTHE DISTANCE TO MOVE TO REVERSE GLOBAL WARMING

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest developments and materials used in electrochemical energy storage and conversion devices, including lithium ion batteries, sodium ion batteries, zinc ion batteries, supercapacitors, and conversion...

The health sector is known to be one of the major contributors towards the greenhouse gas emissions causing the climate crisis, the greatest health threat of the 21st century. This volume positions the health sector as a leader in the fight against...

Jill is a fourteen-year-old girl who goes through a near-death experience (NDE) after an auto accident in her hometown of Livingston, Montana. During her NDE, a mentor introduces Jill to a richer understanding about life and its relationship to aspects...

In Hear the Ocean Sing, the final volume of Jan Mitchell’s cruising memoirs, she takes the reader to sea with her and husband Ian. Despite experiencing a dismasting, they also wonder at the beauties of the ocean, its creatures and the pristine...

This book studies R. Buckminster Fuller's World Game and similar world games, past and present. Proposed by Fuller in 1964 and first played in colleges and universities across North America at a time of growing ecological crisis, the World Game attempted...

This volume showcases the diversity of the politics and practices of climate change governance across Southeast Asia. Through a series of country-level case studies and regional perspectives, the authors in this volume explore the complexities and...

Das Buch ""Historische Abhandlungen V2: Der Koniglichen Gesellschaft Der Wissenschaften Zu Kopenhagen (1786)"" von Heinze, Valentin August enth�����lt historische Abhandlungen der K������niglichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Kopenhagen aus dem...

Climate Change, The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Public Pedagogies: The Case for Ecosocialism uses public pedagogy as a theoretical lens to examine climate change emergency and presents a solution to the issue in ecosocialism.The book addresses the...

This book examines the nature of the 'energy curriculum' in Arctic Higher Education and provides invaluable data and new models to assess levels of Sustainable Development Literacy. Drawing on course mapping conducted in Higher Education institutions...