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  • Climate, Change and Risk

    Edited by Thomas Downing, A. Olsthoorn, R.S.J. Tol ...
    Climate, Change and Risk presents an overview of 'extreme' weather related events and our ability to cope with them. It focuses on society's responses, insurance matters and methodologies for the analysis of climatic hazards. Drawing on worldwide research from the leading names in the field this volume explores the changes in weather hazards that might be expected as the global climate changes. ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

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  • Climate Change and Food Systems: Global Assessments and Implications for Food Security and Trade

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    This book collects the findings of a group of scientists and economists who have taken stock of climate change impacts on food and agriculture at global and regional levels over the past two decades. The evidence presented describes how global warming will impact where and how food is produced and discusses the significant consequences for food security, health and nutrition, water scarcity and ... Read more

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  • Cost-Benefit Analysis

    Cases and Materials

    by Euston Quah, Raymond Toh ...
    Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is the systematic and analytical process of comparing benefits and costs in evaluating the desirability of a project or programme, often of a social nature and for society as a whole. CBA is fundamental to government decision-making and can be an effective tool for informed decisions on the use of society's scarce resources. This book highlights the main concepts and ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Climate Change in the 21st Century

    by Stewart Cohen, Melissa Waddell ...
    Public and media interest in the climate change issue has increased exponentially in recent years. Climate change, or "global warming," is a complex problem with far-reaching social and economic impacts. Climate Change in the 21st Century brings together all the major aspects of global warming to give a state of the art description of our collective understanding of this phenomenon and what can be ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Four Degrees of Global Warming

    Australia in a Hot World

    Edited by Peter Christoff ...
    At Copenhagen in December 2009, the international community agreed to limit global warming to below two degrees Celsius to avoid the worst impacts of human-induced climate change. However climate scientists agree that current national emissions targets collectively will still not achieve this goal. Instead, the ‘ambition gap’ between climate science and climate policy is likely to lead to average ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Applied Climatology

    Principles and Practice

    by Allen Perry, Dr Russell Thompson, Russell Thompson ...
    'Big freeze' conditions, storms, severe flooding, droughts, and heatwaves - recent extremes in weather, with their resultant physical, economic and human losses, highlight the vulnerability of society to changes in the atmosphere. Atmospheric pollution, urbanization, natural atmospheric disasters are causing dramatic changes in climatic environments.Applied Climatology examines the effects of ... Read more

    $163.99 CAD

  • Environmental and Health Impact Assessment of Development Projects

    A handbook for practitioners

    by The World Health Organization ...
    This handbook for practitioners in environmental and public health, environmental management, toxicology and ecotoxicology has been prepared by an international group of experts from both developing and developed countries and covers a wide range of topics in both environmental impact assessment and environmental health impact assessment. ... Read more

    $500.99 CAD

  • Climate Economics

    The State of the Art

    by Frank Ackerman, Elizabeth Stanton ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
    Climate science paints a bleak picture: The continued growth of greenhouse gas emissions is increasingly likely to cause irreversible and catastrophic effects. Urgent action is needed to prepare for the initial rounds of climatic change, which are already unstoppable. While the opportunity to avert all climate damage has now passed, well-designed mitigation and adaptation policies, if adopted ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Greenhouse: Planning for Climate Change

    Edited by GI Pearman ...
    It is important for the reader to understand clearly the objectives of these papers. They are not an attempt to provide accurate predictions of what is going to happen in Australia over the next few decades. Rather they represent sensitivity studies, designed to illustrate to what extent we as a nation are dependent on the climate and likely to be affected by climatic change, and attempts to ... Read more

    $157.99 CAD

  • The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity: Ecological and Economic Foundations

    Edited by Pushpam Kumar ...
    Series series TEEB - The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity
    Human well-being relies critically on ecosystem services provided by nature. Examples include water and air quality regulation, nutrient cycling and decomposition, plant pollination and flood control, all of which are dependent on biodiversity. They are predominantly public goods with limited or no markets and do not command any price in the conventional economic system, so their loss is often not ... Read more

    $129.99 CAD

  • Conserving and Valuing Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity

    Economic, Institutional and Social Challenges

    Edited by K N Ninan ...
    This book comprehensively addresses the economic, social and institutional difficulties in conserving biodiversity and the ecosystem services that it provides. It covers a wide range of issues such as biodiversity, ecosystem services and valuation in the context of diverse ecosystems such as tropical forests, marine areas, wetlands and agricultural landscapes, non-timber forest products, ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Applied Geography

    Principles and Practice

    Edited by Michael Pacione ...
    Applied Geography offers an invaluable introduction to useful research in physical, environmental and human geography and provides a new focus and reference point for investigating and understanding problem-orientated research. Forty-nine leading experts in the field introduce and explore research which crosses the traditional boundary between physical and human geography. A wide range of key ... Read more

    $249.99 CAD