Global Warming & Climate Change

This completely updated and revised Second Edition of the popular Workbook of Atmospheric Dispersion Estimates provides an important foundation for understanding dispersion modeling as it is being practiced today. The book and accompanying diskette will...

This book explores how the history of philosophy can orient us to the new reality brought on by the climate crisis.If we understand the climate crisis as a deeply existential one, it can help to examine the way past philosophers responded to similar...

Originally published in 1973 and based on papers published in The International Journal of Environmental Studies, this book discusses the impact of road vehicles on the environment. Particular stress is laid on the design of towns and vehicles, economic...

This edited volume provides both a broad overview of cooperation patterns in the UNFCCC climate change negotiations and an in-depth analysis of specific coalitions and their relations. Over the course of three parts, this book maps out and takes stock of...

This book applies a gendered lens to evaluate the dynamic linkages between climate change and livelihoods in developing countries. It examines how climate change affects women and men in distinct ways, and what the implications are for earning income and...

Global communities have arrived at a critical crossroads. The planet is heating up at a historically unprecedented rate and the ecological conditions sustaining vast species, including our own, are poised at irreversible tipping points. Time is up to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948830539Author Andri Snaer MagnasonFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Open LetterPublisher Open Letter

An energizing case for hope about the climate, from Rebecca Solnit ("the voice of the resistance"-New York Times), climate activist Thelma Young Lutunatabua, and a chorus of voices calling on us to rise to the moment. Not Too Late is the book for...

In what ways is climate change political? This book addresses this key - but oddly neglected - question. It argues that in order to answer it we need to understand politics in a three-fold way: as a site of authoritative, public decision-making; as a...

Dispelling the myth that people in the Global North share similar experiences of climate change, this book reveals how intersecting social dimensions of climate change—people, processes, and institutions—give rise to different experiences of loss,...

Climate Change Law and Policy in the Middle East and North AfricaRegion provides an in-depth and authoritative examination of the guiding principles of climate change law and policy in the MENA region.This volume introduces readers to the latest...

A straightforward and fact-based exploration of how weather happens, how it relates to climate, and how science answers major questions about Earth as a system Climate change is one of the most hotly contested environmental topics of our day. To answer...

This book brings together the state of our knowledge on the interactions between climate change and marine biota. It focusses broadly on the environmental stressors during the Anthropocene period; when human activities started to have a significant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907962745Author NobodyFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Cranmore PublicationsPublisher Cranmore PublicationsWeight(grams) 156g

Justice for Future Generations breaks new ground by discussing what ethical obligations current generations have towards future generations in addressing the threat of climate change and how such obligations should be embodied in international law. Peter...

Climate change is viewed as a primarily scientific, economic, or political issue. While acknowledging the legitimacy of these perspectives, Kevin J. O'Brien argues that we should respond to climate change first and foremost as a case of systematic and...

We hear about pieces of ice the size of continents breaking off of Antarctica, rapidly melting glaciers in the Himalayas, and ice sheets in the Arctic crumbling to the sea, but does it really matter? Will melting glaciers change our lives? Absolutely. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947708587Author Elizabeth BechardFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Citrine PublishingPublisher Citrine PublishingWeight(grams) 431g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316536752Author Hannah RitchieFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Little, Brown SparkPublisher Little, Brown SparkWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm) 241mm...

Climate change confronts us with our most pressing challenges today. The global consensus is clear that human activity is mostly to blame for its harmful effects, but there is disagreement about what should be done. While no shortage of proposals from...

In a career spanning four decades, Gerald R. North contributed groundbreaking research that continues to shape the modern field of climate science. However, the route he has taken was full of surprising twists and turns that included hate mail,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588346452Author E. O. WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian Books

This book examines the concept of liberty in relation to civilization's ability to live within ecological limits.Freedom, in all its renditions - choice, thought, action - has become inextricably linked to our understanding of what it means to be modern...

In 1958, Charles David Keeling began measuring the concentration of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. His project kicked off a half century of research that has expanded our knowledge of climate change...

Today, approximately two billion children breathe toxic air at levels exceeding standards set by the World Health Organization, causing immediate and long-term physical and mental health effects. Nearly every child around the world is at risk from at...

In Climate Obstruction: How Denial, Delay and Inaction are Heating the Planet, Kristoffer Ekberg, Bernhard Forchtner, Martin Hultman and Kirsti Jylha bring together crucial insights from environmental history, sociology, media and communication studies...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593712771Author Iris GottliebFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 1g

From the acclaimed environmentalist, a call to harness the power of the sun and rewrite our scientific, economic, and political future.

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This book synthesizes over forty years of field research in agriculture in Asian developing countries including in East Asia, South Asia and South-East Asia. It takes stock of the development and the transition of agriculture reviewing development events...

What past climate change can tell us about our future: a warning and a rallying-cry

Many books explain why global warming is a problem; this book shows what must be done. It addresses central themes of climate change in straightforward terms, laying out the actions that need to be taken to slow global warming and adapt to the near and...

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This book presents ideas for strengthening the foundations for transformational change in polar and global education leadership in all stages of the education process.Despite being an established concept endorsed by the United Nations Educational,...

This book examines the impact of climate change on eye disease and eye health.Filling a lacuna in the existing literature, Scott Fraser takes a deep dive into the eye diseases that are most affected by the climate crisis and explores the subsequent...

This book is a primer on the fundamental science of climate change and climate prediction, now updated to reflect the latest research.

This book is a primer on the fundamental science of climate change and climate prediction, now updated to reflect the latest research.

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A powerful critique of the Global North's resource-hungry 'green transition', calling for a fundamental overhaul of our profit-driven, exploitative world order.