Global Warming & Climate Change

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.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780620987486Author Sam BeckbessingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Three Kids in a Trenchcoat LtdPublisher Three Kids in a Trenchcoat...

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...

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

Political elites have been evading the causes of climate change through deceptive fixes. Their market-type instruments such as carbon trading aim to incentivise technological innovation which will supposedly decarbonize or replace dominant high-carbon...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593492307Author Greta ThunbergFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 720gDimensions(mm) 240mm *...

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 9781541758216Author Michael E MannFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm *...

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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This book provides a clear, accessible, and concise overview of climate change and its wide-ranging effects on our planet and society. This informative treatise outlines the scientific basis of climate change, explores its causes—both natural and...

This book provides a clear, accessible, and concise overview of climate change and its wide-ranging effects on our planet and society. This informative treatise outlines the scientific basis of climate change, explores its causes—both natural and...

This Element examines China's embrace of green development on the global stage, or 'Chinese global environmentalism.' It traces Chinese global environmentalism's historical evolution and motivations and analyzes its deployment through the governance...

This Element examines China's embrace of green development on the global stage, or 'Chinese global environmentalism.' It traces Chinese global environmentalism's historical evolution and motivations and analyzes its deployment through the governance...