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  • On the Frontiers of Climate and Environmental Change

    Vulnerabilities and Adaptations in Central Vietnam

    Edited by Ole Bruun, Thorkil Casse ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is intended to fill a gap in climate-change literature by providing a comprehensive regional study and identifying the overall adaptation challenges in a real-life context. The way in which possible climate impacts interact with a range of other challenges in agriculture, forestry, disaster planning, health care, general economic development, and common livelihoods are presented, and it ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Should Meat be on the Menu?

    by David Mason-Jones ...
    Is it possible to eat meat and save the planet?This book explores the widely held misconception that sheep, cattle and other grazing animals are responsible for an enormous net production of new global warming gases. The reality is that livestock are part of a closed atmospheric carbon cycle where the carbon they emit is equal to the carbon they take in.With the information in this book, food ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • 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

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Our Renewable Future

    Laying the Path for One Hundred Percent Clean Energy

    by Richard Heinberg, David Fridley ...
    One of GreenBiz's Six Best Sustainability Books of 2016The next few decades will see a profound energy transformation throughout the world. By the end of the century (and perhaps sooner), we will shift from fossil fuel dependence to rely primarily on renewable sources like solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal power. Driven by the need to avert catastrophic climate change and by the depletion of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The End of Doom

    Environmental Renewal in the Twenty-first Century

    by Ronald Bailey ...
    In the past five decades there have been many, many forecasts of impending environmental doom. They have universally been proven wrong. Meanwhile, those who have bet on human resourcefulness have almost always been correct.In his widely praised book Ecoscam, Ronald Bailey strongly countered environmentalist alarmism, using facts to demonstrate just how wildly overstated many claims of impending ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Laboratory Earth

    The Planetary Gamble We Can't Afford To Lose

    by Steven H Schneider ...
    Laboratory Earth taps the relevant knowledge from physical, biological, and social sciences needed to study the planet holistically. This so-called Earth Systems Science fosters a new way to understand the Earth and our roles as inhabitants, with the purpose of building solutions to the bewildering global environment and overdevelopment.Educational, business, health, and governmental organizations ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Living in a Warmer World

    How a changing climate will affect our lives

    Edited by Jim Salinger ...
    Readable, relevant and fascinating, in Living in a Warmer World Dr Jim Salinger brings together some of the worlds leading scientists to describe how a hotter planet is affecting our food supplies, fisheries and agriculture, access to fresh water and public health. From these specifics, a clearer picture emerges of how our planet is changing and how this will affect our daily lives. The essays ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

  • Rising Tides

    Climate Refugees in the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by John R. Wennersten, Denise Robbins ...
    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    "Deals masterfully with a neglected crisis, how climate change is driving migration . . . The work broaches solutions both practical . . . and political."—Christopher E. Goldthwait, former US AmbassadorWith global climate change upon us, it is imperative to start thinking about the massive numbers of people who will be displaced by environmental crises. The rise in sea levels alone will account ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Building the Impact Economy

    Our Future, Yea or Nay

    by Maximilian Martin ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book develops a comprehensive framework for creating sustainable new business approaches on a massive scale. It relates the power of entrepreneurship, investment and technology to four areas in which progress is urgently needed to get out of the world’s current impasse. These are: game-changing innovations in companies; a way forward for the global fashion industry that reconciles ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Ecosystem-Based Disaster Risk Reduction and Adaptation in Practice

    Edited by Fabrice G. Renaud, Karen Sudmeier-Rieux, Marisol Estrella, Udo Nehren ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is a compilation of recent developments in the field of ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction and climate change adaption (Eco-DRR/CCA) globally. It provides further evidence that ecosystem-based approaches make economic sense, and showcases how research has progressively filled knowledge gaps about translating this concept into practice. It presents a number of methods, and tools that ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Climate Change in Cyprus

    Review of the Impacts and Outline of an Adaptation Strategy

    by Theodoros Zachariadis ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book provides a concise overview of facts and projections about climate change in Cyprus and its region until the end of the 21st century. Climate change is expected to have adverse effects in Mediterranean Europe – the most serious compared to other European regions. Being an island state with a semi-arid climate in the Eastern Mediterranean, Cyprus is located in a hot spot. Based on the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Far North:

    Plant Biodiversity and Ecology of Yakutia

    Edited by Elena I. Troeva, A. P. Isaev, M.M. Cherosov, N. S. Karpov ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Outside Russia very little is known about the terrestrial ecology, vegetation, biogeographical patterns, and biodiversity of the enormously extensive ecosystems of Yakutia, Siberia. These systems are very special in that they function on top of huge layers of permafrost and are exposed to very severe and extreme weather conditions, the range between winter and summer temperatures being more than ... Read more

    $188.09 USD