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  • Environment, Forced Migration and Social Vulnerability

    Edited by Tamer Afifi, Jill Jäger ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is one of the outputs of the conference on ‘Environmental Change, Forced Migration, and Social Vulnerability’ (EFMSV) held in Bonn in October 2008. Migration is one of the oldest adaptation measures of humanity. Indeed, without migration the multitude of civilizations and interactions between them – peaceful and otherwise – would be hard to imagine. The United Nations (UN)-led global ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • The Water Will Come

    Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World

    by Jeff Goodell ...
    An eye-opening and essential tour of the vanishing world in the age of climate change and rising tides.What if Atlantis wasn't a myth, but an early precursor to a new age of great flooding? Across the globe, scientists and civilians alike are noticing rapidly rising sea levels, and higher and higher tides pushing more water directly into the places we live, from our most vibrant, historic cities ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Myth of Human Supremacy

    by Derrick Jensen ...
    In this impassioned polemic, radical environmental philosopher Derrick Jensen debunks the near-universal belief in a hierarchy of nature and the superiority of humans. Vast and underappreciated complexities of nonhuman life are explored in detail—from the cultures of pigs and prairie dogs, to the creative use of tools by elephants and fish, to the acumen of caterpillars and fungi. The paralysis of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Quarterly Essay 27 Reaction Time

    Climate Change and the Nuclear Option

    by Ian Lowe ...
    Series Book 27 - Quarterly Essay
    Australia is at a crossroads: if we are to halt global warming, do we need to stride resolutely into a nuclear future?In this engrossing and persuasive essay, Ian Lowe discusses his one-time belief in the benefits of nuclear power and explains why that belief has faltered. He engages with the leading environmentalists, like James Lovelock, who advocate going nuclear, as well as with the less ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • When the Rivers Run Dry

    Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century

    by Fred Pearce ...
    In this groundbreaking book, veteran science correspondent Fred Pearce travels to more than thirty countries to examine the current state of crucial water sources. Deftly weaving together the complicated scientific, economic, and historic dimensions of the world water crisis, he provides our most complete portrait yet of this growing danger and its ramifications for us all. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Cold Welcome

    The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America

    by Sam White ...
    Cundill History Prize FinalistLongman–History Today Prize Finalist“Meticulous environmental-historical detective work.”—Times Literary SupplementWhen Europeans first arrived in North America, they faced a cold new world. The average global temperature had dropped to lows unseen in millennia. The effects of this climactic upheaval were stark and unpredictable: blizzards and deep freezes, droughts ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Evidence-Based Climate Science

    Data Opposing CO2 Emissions as the Primary Source of Global Warming

    Edited by Don Easterbrook ...
    Global warming and human-induced climate change are perhaps the most important scientific issues of our time. These issues continue to be debated in the scientific community and in the media without true consensus about the role of greenhouse gas emissions as a contributing factor. Evidence-Based Climate Science: Data opposing CO2 emissions as the primary source of global warming objectively ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • The Solar Economy

    Renewable Energy for a Sustainable Global Future

    by Hermann Scheer ...
    The global economy and our way of life are based on the exploitation of fossil fuels, which not only threaten massive environmental and social disruption through global warming but, at present rates of consumption, will run out within decades, causing huge industrial dislocation and economic collapse. Even before then, the conflicts it causes in the Middle East and elsewhere will be frighteningly ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Climate Change

    Observed impacts on Planet Earth

    Edited by Trevor Letcher ...
    The climate of the Earth is always changing. As the debate over the implications of changes in the Earth's climate has grown, the term climate change has come to refer primarily to changes we've seen over recent years and those which are predicted to be coming, mainly as a result of human behavior. This book serves as a broad, accessible guide to the science behind this often political and heated ... Read more

    $84.59 USD

  • The Climate Resilient Organization

    Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change and Weather Extremes

    by Andrew Griffiths, Martina K. Linnenluecke ...
    Climate change has had a significant impact globally, predominantly for those vulnerable to its influence. The first book of its kind, The Climate Resilient Organization assesses the issues that have mounted for decision-makers in the field, while providing strategies to tackle them.With a particular focus on building climate-resilient pathways for private sector organizations, the expert authors ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments

    Data Handling and Numerical Techniques

    Edited by André F. Lotter, Steve Juggins, John P. Smol, H. John B. Birks ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Numerical and statistical methods have rapidly become part of a palaeolimnologist’s tool-kit. They are used to explore and summarise complex data, reconstruct past environmental variables from fossil assemblages, and test competing hypotheses about the causes of observed changes in lake biota through history. This book brings together a wide array of numerical and statistical techniques currently ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability in Rural West Africa

    Edited by Joseph A. Yaro, Jan Hesselberg ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book presents conceptual and empirical discussions of adaptation to climate change/variability in West Africa. Highlighting different countries’ experiences in adaptation by different socio-economic groups and efforts at building their adaptive capacity, it offers readers a holistic understanding of adaptation on the basis of contextual and generic sources of adaptive capacity.Focusing on ... Read more

    $89.09 USD