Global Warming & Climate Change

A leading environmental thinker takes a hard look at the obstacles and possibilities on the long road to sustainability This gripping, deeply thoughtful book considers future of civilization in the light of what we know about climate change and related...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593080931Author Christiana FigueresFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm)...

The 2016 election left many people who are concerned about the environment fearful that progress on climate change would come screeching to a halt. But not Michael Bloomberg and Carl Pope. They approach climate change from different perspectives, yet...

The Arts and Humanities on Environmental and Climate Change examines how cultural institutions and their collections can support a goal shared with the scientific community: creating a climate-literate public that engages with environmental issues and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788269181951Author Karen O'BrienFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Cchange PressPublisher Cchange PressWeight(grams) 526gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780750340304Author Jonathan KoomeyFormat HardbackPage Count 363Imprint Institute of Physics PublishingPublisher Institute of Physics PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820363769Author Jennifer L RiceFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Georgia PressPublisher University of Georgia PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668023266Author Rob JacksonFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 161mm * 27mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062954817Author Thich Nhat HanhFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

The Ethics of Climate Change: An Introduction systematically and comprehensively examines the ethical issues surrounding arguably the greatest threat now facing humanity. This second edition has been updated and includes two new chapters on climate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684188789Author Arek SinanianFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Longueville MediaPublisher Longueville Media

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525563389Author Hope JahrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

"What can I do, personally, about the climate crisis? . . . Ask yourself, what are you passionate about? Using this passion may motivate you to help shape the future of your community."-The New York Times Climate Forward newsletterThis must-have book...

An award-winning science journalist explains what Earth's frozen waters tell us about the past, present, and future of humanity. "The Kingdom of Frost," or what scientists call the cryosphere, refers to all of Earth's frozen waters. Glaciers, ice caps,...

Environmental educators face a formidable challenge when they approach climate change due to the complexity of the science and of the political and cultural contexts in which people live. There is a clear consensus among climate scientists that climate...

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Bringing together interdisciplinary climate change scholarship and grassroots activism, this book considers the possibilities of planetary justice across human difference, generations, species...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608059812Author Risto JalkanenFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Bentham Science PublishersPublisher Bentham Science PublishersWeight(grams)...

This element offers a review and synthesis of the research on economic methods for evaluating regulations that improve air quality, save energy, and reduce climate risks. The intended audience is regulators and other constituencies interested in the...

A global energy war is underway. It is man versus nature, fossil fuel versus clean energy, the haves versus the have-nots, and, fundamentally, an extractive economy versus a regenerative economy. The near-unanimous consensus among climate scientists is...

In the teeth of climate emergency, hope has to remain possible, because life insists on it. But hope also has to be realistic. And doesn't realism about our plight point towards despair? Don't the timid politicians, the failed summits and the locked-in...

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.Despite efforts for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576879542Author Paola GianturcoFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.

In The Democracy of Suffering philosopher Todd Dufresne provides a strikingly original exploration of the past, present, and future of this epoch, the Anthropocene, demonstrating how the twin crises of reason and capital have dramatically remade the...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916260368Author Kate ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Liminal BooksPublisher Liminal BooksWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

From the president and CEO of the Appalachian Mountain Club comes an astounding comprehensive plan to save our planet, make the outdoors the epicenter of our communities, and commit to an active outdoor lifestyle.In The Outdoor Citizen, John Judge coins...

This book tackles the future challenges and opportunities for planning our cities and towns in a changing climate and recommends key actions for more resilient urban futures.Urban Planning for Climate Change focusses on how urban planning is fundamental...

How do individuals decide whether to accept human causes of climate change, vaccinate their children against childhood diseases, or practice social distancing during a pandemic? Democracies depend on educated citizens who can make informed decisions for...

There is no planet B. Activists share how we must inform and organize ourselves to save the future. "Act as though your house is on fire. Because it is." Following Greta Thunberg, millions of young climate activists have been taking to the streets...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910773789Author Liz ChristouFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Oakamoor PublishingPublisher Oakamoor PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

This volume explores whether theatre pedagogy can and should be transformed in response to the global climate crisis. Conrad Alexandrowicz and David Fancy present an innovative re-imagining of the ways in which the art of theatre, and the pedagogical...

This volume sheds light on the argumentative role of metaphor in climate change discourse, unpacking the ways in which stakeholders use specific metaphors to influence perceptions of the climate crisis.While existing research has explored the explanatory...

The countries that make up the MENA region display wide diversity. One of the poorest countries in the world sits alongside two of the wealthiest, whilst the region's natural resources range from immeasurable oil and gas reserves to some of the scantiest...

This book provides an in-depth overview of graphic and visual communication styles for conveying climate change and climate action within the landscape architectural profession and in academia. The book features visualizations of climate adaptation and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623179021Author Kylie FlanaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.

As the planet warms, winter is shrinking. In the last fifty years, the Northern Hemisphere lost a million square miles of spring snowpack, and high-elevation snowpacks in the western United States have decreased by nearly half since 1982. On average,...

The carbon dioxide that industrial civilization spews into the atmosphere has dramatic consequences for life on Earth that extend beyond climate change. CO2 levels directly affect plant growth, in turn affecting any kind of life that depends on plants-in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941071212Author Larry BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Stairway PressPublisher Stairway PressWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

This undergraduate text aimed primarily at high schoolers and lower level undergraduates focuses on explaining how the various forms of renewable energy work and the current ongoing research. It includes sections on non-scientific aspects that should be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640094666Author Daniel MathewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint