Global Warming & Climate Change

Large-scale assessments, such as those by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), have been crucial in advancing our understanding of climate change. They have affirmed that reducing greenhouse-gas emissions is urgently needed to avoid its...

Feminist Climate Policy in Industrialised States explores ways in which policymakers can overcome institutional barriers and conventions in pursuit of the radical changes necessary for a gender-just climate emergency response.In 2021, the...

This book explains complex environment of climate finance in Africa emphasizing the critical need for financial resources to reduce the effects of climate change in the region. It investigates specific obstacles that African countries face when seeking...

This book focusses on climate change and sustainable scientific and technological solutions. It includes topics related to environmental pollution, extreme environments, greenhouse gases and global warming, effects of climate change on water resources...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541705494Author Michael E MannFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint PublicAffairs,U.S.Publisher PublicAffairs,U.S.Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 146mm * 25mm

The book provides expertise in strategic climate management in relation to the modern principles of digital and climate transformation examined through the concept of business models. This monograph aims to broadly illustrate the complexity of the issue...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909492004Author Jonathan Ashley-SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Archetype Publications LtdPublisher Archetype Publications LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593242766Author Sam BlochFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 573gDimensions(mm) 239mm *...

Large-scale assessments, such as those by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), have been crucial in advancing our understanding of climate change. They have affirmed that reducing greenhouse-gas emissions is urgently needed to avoid its...

Every eighteen hours, the world puts up a nuclear power plant's-worth of solar panels. At the same time, combustion continues to melt the poles, poison our bodies and drive global inequality. It is no longer necessary: For the first time in 700,000...

What good is persuasion if no one is paying attention? Why Just Stop Oil's resolute young campaigners chose civil disobedience. The climate crisis deepens with terrifying predictability. Meanwhile, many of the young campaigners who seek to wake us...

Models change our worlds. From global carbon flux models to regional coastal flood prediction maps, climate-related models influence how we know our environment, how we build our cities, and how we act on a climate-altered planet. Yet such models...

We've known for decades that climate change is an existential crisis. For just as long, we've seen the complete failure of our institutions to rise to the challenge. Governments have struggled to meet even modest goals. Fossil fuel interests maintain a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798886972153Author Anne W. M NgFormat HardbackImprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 452g

A compelling and pragmatic argument: Solutions to yesterday's environmental problems reveal today's path forward. We solved planet-threatening problems before, Susan Solomon argues, and we can do it again. Solomon knows firsthand what those solutions...

In this important, multidisciplinary, open access study, Daniel Akech Thiong shows that the relations between climate disaster, pastoralist migration, and intercommunal conflict in Africa reach farther, both in time and space, than we realize. Focusing...

Cape York is a remote and biodiverse peninsula in northeastern Australia that has been inhabited by Aboriginal communities for thousands of years. Since colonization, much of the peninsula has been used for large scale cattle farming. It is also a place...

Cape York is a remote and biodiverse peninsula in northeastern Australia that has been inhabited by Aboriginal communities for thousands of years. Since colonization, much of the peninsula has been used for large scale cattle farming. It is also a place...

Consequences of Weather, Climate and Ocean Extremes provides comprehensive coverage of the concepts, terminology, and methods used to assess the consequences of weather, climate and ocean extremes. It goes on to assess the direct and wider impacts and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593081853Author Bill GatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 131mm...

"Accessible and convincing."-Sally Rooney"[A] well-reasoned and eye-opening treatise . . . [Kohei Saito makes] a provocative and visionary proposal." -Publishers Weekly, (starred review)"Saito's clarity of thought, plethora of evidence, and...

An invaluable resource for general readers investigating climate change, this book examines the impact of climate change on popular culture and analyzes how writers and directors treat the disasters caused by climate change in their novels and films. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612198026Author U.S. Global Change Research ProgramFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing

When climate disasters like hurricanes, heatwaves, and tsunamis strike, they reveal the inequities of our social, political, and economic structures. They also lay bare the negative impacts of these structures on the health and safety of all people, and...

There are significant pressures from climate change and air pollution that forests currently face. This book aims to increase understanding of the state and potential of forest ecosystems to mitigate and adapt to climate change in a polluted environment...

Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds and Climate Change highlights the relationship between climate change and biogenic VOC and the impact they have on each other. Topics include the synthesis and emission of VOC in plants, how they respond to...

The Global Climate Crisis: What To Do About It addresses the imminent need to fully understand the causes, effects, and evidence of global warming due to the large amount of climate disinformation and complexity of much of the available valid science. In...

The 20th century has experienced environmental changes that appear to be unprecedented in their rate and magnitude during the Earth's history. For the first time, Stable Isotopes as Indicators of Ecological Change brings together a wide range of...

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Biodiversity and Climate Change Adaptation in Tropical Islands provides comprehensive information on climate change, biodiversity, possible impacts, adaptation measures and policy challenges to help users rehabilitate and preserve the natural resources...

Experiencing Climate Change in Bangladesh: Vulnerability and Adaptation in Coastal Regions provides a conceptual and empirical framework for understanding the vulnerability of coastal communities in Bangladesh to multiple stressors and presents the...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781554815937Author Adam BriggleFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Broadview Press LtdPublisher Broadview Press Ltd

'One of the most exciting books I've ever read'- Louise ErdrichIn this profoundly human and moving narrative, the bestselling author of The World Without Us returns with a book ten years in the making: a study of the precarious state of our planet and...

This compelling textbook provides a broad overview of the science underpinning our understanding of our climate, and how it is changing. Presented in clear and accessible language, and requiring only minimal algebra, it enables students to understand how...

Neel Ahuja tracks the figure of the climate refugee in public media and policy over the past decade, arguing that journalists, security experts, politicians, and nongovernmental organizations have often oversimplified climate change and obfuscated the...

Winner, 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleWinner, 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the category of Ecology and Environment, Foreword ReviewsMany accounts of climate change depict disasters striking faraway places: melting ice caps,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798985377101Author Brad RouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Wisdom House BooksPublisher Wisdom House BooksWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

We can all play a part in triggering positive tipping points that accelerate us out of the climate crisis. How do we get out of a climate crisis of our own making? As global change escalates, we are already starting to experience damaging tipping...

Why should we care about climate chaos and global warming? Because, among other risky outcomes, they may seriously harm our health! Scientists around the world are in agreement that global warming, more aptly named climate change, is occurring and human...