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  • Solutions for Climate Change Challenges in the Built Environment

    by Felix N. Hammond, Jessica Lamond, David G. Proverbs, Colin A. Booth ...
    Series Book 11 - Innovation in the Built Environment
    The multi-disciplinary perspective provided here offers a strategic view on built environment issues and improve understanding of how built environment activities potentially induce global warming and climate change. It also highlights solutions to these challenges.Solutions to Climate change Challenges in the Built Environment helps develop an appreciation of the diverse themes of the climate ... Read more

    $92.00 USD

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  • The Attacking Ocean

    The Past, Present, and Future of Rising Sea Levels

    by Brian Fagan ...
    The past fifteen thousand years-the entire span of human civilization-have witnessed dramatic sea level changes, which began with rapid global warming at the end of the Ice Age, when coastlines were more than seven hundred feet below modern levels. Over the next ten millennia, the oceans climbed in fits and starts. These rapid changes had little effect on those humans who experienced them, partly ... Read more

    $16.09 USD

  • A Rough Ride to the Future

    by James Lovelock ...
    The great scientific visionary of our age presents a radical vision of humanity's future as the thinking brain of our Earth-system.A Rough Ride to the Future introduces two new Lovelockian ideas. The first is that three hundred years ago, when Thomas Newcomen invented the steam engine, he was unknowingly beginning what James Lovelock calls "accelerated evolution." That is a process that is ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Earth in Human Hands

    Shaping Our Planet's Future

    by David Grinspoon ...
    NASA Astrobiologist and renowned scientist Dr. David Grinspoon brings readers an optimistic message about humanity's future in the face of climate change.For the first time in Earth's history, our planet is experiencing a confluence of rapidly accelerating changes prompted by one species: humans. Climate change is only the most visible of the modifications we've made--up until this point, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Climate Change Biology

    by Lee Hannah ...
    Climate change biology is a new discipline, born of the recognition that human-induced climate change is resulting in wholesale shifts in the distributions of species and the timing of biological events. The evidence for biological upheaval in response to climate change is immense. Migratory species are arriving earlier in the year. Flowers are blooming earlier. Ranges of plants, mammals and ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Climate Change, Forced Migration, and International Law

    by Jane McAdam ...
    Displacement caused by climate change is an area of growing concern. With current rises in sea levels and changes to the global climate, it is an issue of fundamental importance to the future of many parts of the world. This book critically examines whether States have obligations to protect people displaced by climate change under international refugee law, international human rights law, and the ... Read more

    $53.09 USD

  • Summary and Analysis of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

    Based on the Book by Elizabeth Kolbert

    by Worth Books ...
    Series series Smart Summaries
    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Sixth Extinction tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Elizabeth Kolbert's book.Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.This short summary and analysis of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert includes ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Confessions of an Eco-Sinner

    Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff

    by Fred Pearce ...
    A 2008 Indie Next PickIn Confessions of an Eco-Sinner, Fred Pearce surveys his home and then sets out to track down the people behind the production and distribution of everything in his daily life, from his socks to his computer to the food in his fridge. It’s a fascinating portrait, by turns sobering and hopeful, of the effects the world’s more than six billion inhabitants have on our planet—and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Understanding Sustainability Economics

    Towards Pluralism in Economics

    by Peter Soderbaum ...
    This highly readable yet challenging book provides a critical examination of the failings of mainstream economics and the resultant environmental problems we are facing. Most importantly, it articulates what an alternative economics for sustainability would look like in both theory and practice.The book provides a brief history of economics and looks at the intersection between politics and the ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Climate Adaptation Policy and Evidence

    Understanding the Tensions between Politics and Expertise in Public Policy

    by Peter Tangney ...
    Series series The Earthscan Science in Society Series
    Evidence-based policymaking is often promoted within liberal democracies as the best means for government to balance political values with technical considerations. Under the evidence-based mandate, both experts and non-experts often assume that policy problems are sufficiently tractable and that experts can provide impartial and usable advice to government so that problems like climate change ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Climate Change, Security Risks and Conflict Reduction in Africa

    A Case Study of Farmer-Herder Conflicts over Natural Resources in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana and Burkina Faso 1960–2000

    by Charlène Cabot ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Millions of people are already affected by weather-related shocks every year in West Africa and climate change is highly likely to increase these threats. In the wake of climate change, rising temperatures, increasingly irregular rainfall and more frequent natural hazards will endanger the ways of life of vulnerable population groups in this region and destabilize their human security. A surge in ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Connectivity Conservation Management

    A Global Guide

    Edited by Graeme L. Worboys, Wendy L. Francis, Michael Lockwood ...
    In an era of climate change, deforestation and massive habitat loss, we can no longer rely on parks and protected areas as isolated 'islands of wilderness' to conserve and protect vital biodiversity. Increasing connections are being considered and made between protected areas and 'connectivity' thinking has started to expand to the regional and even the continental scale to match the challenges of ... Read more

    $115.99 USD