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  • Measuring Global Migration

    Towards Better Data for All

    by Frank Laczko, Elisa Mosler Vidal, Marzia Rango ...
    Series series Routledge Key Issues in Global Migration
    This book focuses on how to improve the collection, analysis and responsible use of data on global migration and international mobility. While migration remains a topic of great policy interest for governments around the world, there is a serious lack of reliable, timely, disaggregated and comparable data on it, and often insufficient safeguards to protect migrants’ information. Meanwhile, vast ... Read more

    $77.99 CAD

  • People on the Move in a Changing Climate

    The Regional Impact of Environmental Change on Migration

    Edited by Etienne Piguet, Frank Laczko ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Policymakers around the world are increasingly concerned about the likely impact of climate change and environmental degradation on the movement of people. This book takes a hard look at the existing evidence available to policymakers in different regions of the world. How much do we really know about the impact of environmental change on migration? How will different regions of the world be ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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  • The Global Deal

    Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity

    by Nicholas Stern ...
    In October 2006, Nicholas Stern, one of the greatest economists and public intellectuals of our day, made headlines around the world with his report, which reviewed the costs and benefits of dealing with global warming. The world's community has learned that it must act to mitigate global climate change, but until the Stern Review, no one knew how much it would cost, and how to do it.Now, Stern ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • Climate and the Oceans

    by Geoffrey K. Vallis ...
    Series series Princeton Primers in Climate
    The oceans exert a vital moderating influence on the Earth's climate system. They provide inertia to the global climate, essentially acting as the pacemaker of climate variability and change, and they provide heat to high latitudes, keeping them habitable. Climate and the Oceans offers a short, self-contained introduction to the subject. This illustrated primer begins by briefly describing the ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Horsemen of the Apocalypse

    The Men Who Are Destroying Life on Earth—And What It Means for Our Children

    by Dick Russell ...
    From the New York Times bestselling author Dick Russell, edited and introduced by New York Times bestselling author Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.!”A must read for anyone concerned with climate and energy issues.”—Leonardo DiCaprio, Academy Award winning actor and environmental activistThe science is overwhelming; the facts are in. The planet is heating up at an alarming rate and the results are ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Selling Solar

    The Diffusion of Renewable Energy in Emerging Markets

    by Damian Miller ...
    To solve the climate crisis, the world must make a wholesale shift to renewable energy technologies. With surging growth in emerging markets, this transformation takes on even greater urgency. The challenges - and opportunities - are immense.Selling Solar considers how such a shift might happen. Focusing on the case of solar photovoltaics, it shows how, at the start of the 21st century, this ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Ecotopia 2121

    A Vision for Our Future Green Utopia?in 100 Cities

    by Alan Marshall ...
    **A 2016 Green Book Festival "Future Forecasts" WinnerA stunningly original, lushly illustrated vision for a Green Utopia, published on the 500th anniversary of the original Big Idea.**Five hundred years ago a powerful new word was unleashed upon the world when Thomas More published his book Utopia, about an island paradise far away from his troubled land. It was an instant hit, and the literati ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Living with Environmental Change

    Waterworlds

    Edited by Kirsten Hastrup, Cecilie Rubow ...
    Climate change is a lived experience of changes in the environment, often destroying conventional forms of subsistence and production, creating new patterns of movement and connection, and transforming people’s imagined future.This book explores how people across the world think about environmental change and how they act upon the perception of past, present and future opportunities. Drawing on ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Volcano!

    by Anita Ganeri ...
    Series series Nature's Fury
    Written in British English, Volcano! describes how and why volcanic eruptions occur. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reactions and Processes

    by P.B. Barraclough, N.O. Crossland, W. Mabey, C.M. Menzie, T. Mill, P.B. Tinker, M. Waldichuk, C.J.M. Wolff, R. Herrmann ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

    $64.99 CAD

  • Plant Phenology as a Biomonitor for Climate Change in Germany

    A Modelling and Mapping Approach

    by Gunther Schmidt, Simon Schönrock, Winfried Schröder ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The investigations refer to the development of plant phenology since the 1960s in Germany. Spatiotemporal trends were assessed by means of regression kriging. It could be shown that there already is a distinct shift of phenological onset towards the beginning of the year of up to two weeks. In future, a shift of up to one month was calculated till 2080. Moreover, a prolongation of the vegetation ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Climate

    Global Change and Local Adaptation

    Edited by Igor Linkov, Todd S. Bridges ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    Rising sea levels and altered weather patterns are expected to significantly alter coastal and inland environments for humans, infrastructure and ecosystems. Potential land-use changes and population increases, coupled with uncertain predictions for sea level rise and storm frequency/intensity represent a significant planning challenge. While efforts to mitigate climate change continue, plans must ... Read more

    $256.99 CAD