Global Warming & Climate Change

This timely Handbook reviews many key issues in the economics of energy and climate change, raising new questions and offering solutions that might help to minimize the threat of energy-induced climate change. Constructed around the objectives of...

'Fast paced and energetic' Financial Times'Punchy, provocative and wonderfully readable' - David Shukman'Eye-popping and essential' - Rowan Hooper'A must-read' - Peter Stott Have you heard that you should plant trees to save the planet? Or buy carbon...

This book analyses the role of the BASIC countries - Brazil, South Africa, India and China - in the international climate order. Climate Diplomacy and Emerging Economies explores the collective and individual positions of these countries towards climate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692897959Author Ted NordhausFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Consortium for Science, Policy, & OutcomesPublisher Consortium for Science, Policy, &...

Deniers of climate change sometimes quip that claims about global warming are more about political science than climate science. They are wrong on the science, but may be right with respect to its political implications. A hotter world, writes Andrew...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843199632Author Julian CaldecottFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Bladud BooksPublisher Mushroom Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506482057Author Elizabeth WeinbergFormat HardbackPage Count 201Imprint Broadleaf BooksPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

We have a decade or less to radically slow global warming before we risk hitting irreversible tipping points that will lock in catastrophic climate change. The good news is that we know how to slow global warming enough to avert disaster. Cut Super...

An urgent call for climate justice from Teen Vogue, one of this generation's leading voices, using an intersectional lens - with critical feminist, indigenous, antiracist and internationalist perspectives. As the political classes watch our world burn, a...

The COVID-19 pandemic gives an opportunity to relaunch global economic systems with a better balance between the social and environmental dimensions. There is a need for a scientifically-based step towards a strong Green Deal: a Climate Pact for the EU. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770416093Author Arno KopeckyFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

An extraordinary look into doubt, denial, and distrustAs wildfires rip across the western United States and sea levels rise along coastal cities from Louisiana to Alaska, some people nevertheless reject the mainstream scientific consensus on...

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"Global warming" and "climate change" have become common and trending subjects of interest in recent decades, due to their massive influence on biodiversity and the subsequent effects on sustainable uses by human beings. In recent times, various...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798891134041Author Mohamad Nor AzraFormat PaperbackPage Count 135Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 300g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640091351Author Daniel MathewsFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781923192249Author Richard KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing

How to confront the climate crisis without losing heart It's easy to feel overwhelmed in the face of global climate breakdown. So how might we develop the inner resolve to confront it? Full Ecology, a collaboration between social-cultural psychologist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039151949Author Jean Pi LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 349g

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The world is on the cusp of one and a half degrees of warming - just the rise it has committed itself to avoiding. Heat at such levels would be intolerable. Even before one and a half, seasons of climate disaster have struck with ever more devastating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593853276Author Elizabeth DunnFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin Young ReadersPublisher Penguin Young ReadersWeight(grams) 466g

**SUNDAY TIMES AND THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**Selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by the SUNDAY TIMES, SPECTATOR and NEW STATESMAN'If you read just one work of non-fiction this year, it should probably be this ... what this book forces you to face is...

The history-making, ground-breaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young activist who has become the voice of a generation'Everything needs to change. And it has to start today' In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780241448304Author Bill GatesFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Allen LanePublisher Penguin Books India Pvt LtdWeight(grams) 480gDimensions(mm) 240mm *...

Scientists agree that over the last century the earth has become warmer. But do we really know why this has happened? A deftly written and enjoyable read, "The Chilling Stars" outlines a brilliant, daring and undoubtedly controversial new theory that...

Energy Culture is a provocative book about oil's firm grip on our politics and everyday lives. It brings together essays and artwork produced in a collaborative environment to stimulate new ways of thinking and to achieve a more just and sustainable...

Modern science is under the greatest and most successful attack in recent history. An industry of denial, abetted by news media and "info-tainment" broadcasters more interested in selling controversy than presenting facts, has duped half the American...

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A nuanced and empathetic account of the social risks faced by farmers navigating the effects of climate change in an era of political tensions Farmers and ranchers are on the front lines of climate change, but many of them, like other rural Americans,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063241541Author Kate MarvelFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780757005480Author Matthys LevyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Square One PublishersPublisher Square One Publishers

Given the strategic role of seaports and of other coastal transport infrastructure as part of the global trading system and the potential for climate-related delays and disruptions across global supply chains, enhancing the climate resilience of key...

Workers are not doomed to be merely the victims of environmental devastation. As Lorenzo Feltrin shows, they can be key actors in preventing it. Because labour supports an unsustainable system of endless growth, it holds a central place in any strategy...

Deteriorating climatic conditions will likely increase the occurrences of infectious diseases and mental health issues. This book, using data from Bangladesh, explains how changes in the weather can cause diseases to spread faster, while making people...

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...