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  • Climate Change and Agriculture in Africa

    Impact Assessment and Adaptation Strategies

    de Ariel Dinar, Rashid Hassan, Robert Mendelsohn, James Benhin, et al ...
    Series series Earthscan Climate
    'This is a well researched, thorough and impressive work on climate change and agriculture in Africa. I recommend it to students, researchers and practitioners working on climate change issues'Jabavu Clifford Nkomo, senior programme specialist, IDRCThis landmark book encompasses a comprehensive assessment of the potential economic impacts of future climate change, and the value of adaptation ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

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  • Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0

    Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America

    de Thomas L. Friedman ...
    A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearA Washington Post Best Book of the YearA Businessweek Best Business Book of the YearA Chicago Tribune Best Book of the YearIn this brilliant, essential book, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas L. Friedman speaks to America's urgent need for national renewal and explains how a green revolution can bring about both a sustainable environment... ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Vanishing Face of Gaia

    A Final Warning

    de James Lovelock ...
    The global temperature is rising, the ice caps are melting, and levels of pollution across the world have reached unprecedented heights. According to eminent scientist James Lovelock, in order to survive an assault from her dependents, the Earth is lurching ever closer to a permanent "hot state." Within the next century, we will almost certainly be forced to give up many of the comforts of western ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Fossil Capital

    The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming

    de Andreas Malm ...
    A sweeping study of how capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power—and contributed to the worsening climate crisisThe more we know about the catastrophic implications of climate change, the more fossil fuels we burn. How did we end up in this mess? In this masterful new history, Andreas Malm claims it all began in Britain with the rise of steam power. But why did ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Terra Nova

    The New World After Oil, Cars, and Suburbs

    de Eric W. Sanderson ...
    A look at what the American lifestyle has done to the environment—and how to move toward a better future.In the last century, three powerful forces—oil, cars, and suburbs—buoyed the American dream. Yet now, the quality of life in the United States is declining due to these same three forces. Our dependence on oil is a root cause of wars, recessions, and natural disasters. Cars consume an outsize ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The End of Doom

    Environmental Renewal in the Twenty-first Century

    de Ronald Bailey ...
    In the past five decades there have been many, many forecasts of impending environmental doom. They have universally been proven wrong. Meanwhile, those who have bet on human resourcefulness have almost always been correct.In his widely praised book Ecoscam, Ronald Bailey strongly countered environmentalist alarmism, using facts to demonstrate just how wildly overstated many claims of impending ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Down to the Wire

    Confronting Climate Collapse

    de David W. Orr ...
    "The real fault line in American politics is not between liberals and conservatives.... It is, rather, in how we orient ourselves to the generations to come who will bear the consequences, for better and for worse, of our actions." So writes David Orr in Down to the Wire, a sober and eloquent assessment of climate destabilization and an urgent call to action. Orr describes how political negligence ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Lukewarming

    The New Climate Science that Changes Everything

    de Patrick J. Michaels, Paul C. Knappenberger ...
    In Lukewarming, two environmental scientists explain the science and spin behind the headlines and come to a provocative conclusion: climate change is real, and partially man-made, but it is becoming obvious that far more warming has been forecast than will occur, with some of the catastrophic impacts implausible or impossible. Global warming is more lukewarm than hot. This fresh analysis is an ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • The Fertile Earth – Nature's Energies in Agriculture, Soil Fertilisation and Forestry

    Volume 3 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger's Eco-Technology Series

    de Viktor Schauberger ...
    Traducido por Callum Coats ...
    How does nature work? When one looks closely at the enormously complex web of life, it is impossible not to be caught by the wonder of how all living things – including rocks and crystals – are interconnected. Just as there is thought behind action, so there is energy behind matter. The Fertile Earth, the third volume of the Eco-Technology series which presents the original, passionate and ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Climate Justice

    Vulnerability and Protection

    de Henry Shue ...
    The fruit of twenty years of moral reflection on the emerging greatest challenge to humanity of the 21st century, these far-sighted and influential essays by a pioneering practical philosopher on the tangled questions of justice between nations and justice across generations confronting all attempts at international cooperation in controlling climate change sharply crystallize the central choices ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Dead Heat

    Global Justice and Global Warming

    de Tom Athanasiou, Paul Baer ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    Today's "extreme weather events" (record-breaking heat waves, droughts, and melting ice caps) foreshadow an increasingly unstable and dire future. Yet, despite all, the US government continues to reject the Kyoto Protocol, to deny the catastrophic consequences of oil dependency, and to define the politics of oil as the politics of U.S. unilateralism, domination, and war.Dead Heat argues that ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Climate Change in the Media

    Reporting Risk and Uncertainty

    de James Painter ...
    Series series RISJ Challenges
    Scientists and politicians are increasingly using the language of risk to describe the climate change challenge. Some researchers have argued that stressing the 'risks' posed by climate change rather than the 'uncertainties' can create a more helpful context for policy makers and a stronger response from the public. However, understanding the concepts of risk and uncertainty - and how to ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD