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Blueprint for a Safer Planet: How to Manage Climate Change and Create a New Era of Progress and Prosperity

November 29, 2011 By

Blueprint for a Safer Planet: How to Manage Climate Change and Create a New Era of Progress and Prosperity Focusing on the economic management of investment and growth from the perspective of both adaptation and mitigation, this title confronts such questions as: what is ...

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Climate Change in the Polar Regions

November 25, 2011 By

Climate Change in the Polar Regions Comprehensive up-to-date account of polar climate change over the last one million years for researchers and advanced students in polar science.

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Global Warming

November 22, 2011 By

Global Warming Global warming is arguably the most critical and controversial issue facing the world in the twenty-first century. Fully updated for 2008 this Very Short Introduction provides a concise and accessible explanation of the key topics in the climate change debate - from the political controversies to the many proposed solutions.

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Changing Climate

November 18, 2011 By

Changing Climate Part of a series that introduces the important key stage 2 Geographical themes such as saving and recycling resources the effects of pollution how we use the land and migration and settlement. This work looks at how research is carried out which reinforces the pupil's own experience of geographical investigation.

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Economics of Climate Change

November 15, 2011 By

Economics of Climate Change Independent rigorous and comprehensive analysis of the economic aspects of climate change.

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Advanced Methods for Decision-Making and Risk Management in Sustainability Science

November 12, 2011 By

Advanced Methods for Decision-Making and Risk Management in Sustainability Science Describes schemes to study the relationship between the socio-economic and the natural sphere and/or the social dimensions of climate and global change. This book...

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Environmental Management for Sustainable Development

November 7, 2011 By

Environmental Management for Sustainable Development Explores the nature and role of environmental management covering key principles practices tools strategies and policies and offering an introduction. This work focuses on sustainable development. It covers topics such as key resources under stress environmental management tools climate change and urban environmental management.

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Let Them Eat Carbon

November 7, 2011 By

Let Them Eat Carbon Ordinary people are paying a ruinous price for the attempts politicians make to control greenhouse gas emissions. Climate change policies dramatically raise electricity bills; make it much more expensive to drive to work or fly on holiday; put manufacturing workers out of a job and sometimes even make your food more expensive.

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Energy Demand and Climate Change

November 7, 2011 By

Energy Demand and Climate Change This scientifically sound, yet easily readable book provides the fundamentals necessary to understand today's energy and climate problems and provides possible answers based on current technology such as solar, water and geothermal power.

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Bird Migration and Global Change

November 7, 2011 By

Bird Migration and Global Change Changes in seasonal movements and population dynamics of migratory birds in response to ongoing changes resulting from global climate changes are a topic of great interest to conservation scientists and birdwatchers around the world. This book evaluates the capacity of migratory birds to adapt to the challenges of a changing climate.

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