climate change in context

Monsoon Asia Integrated Regional Study on Global Change: Changes in the Human-Monsoon System of East Asia in the Context of Global Change (Hardcover)

This book is the first in a series of assessments of regional climate change. Irreversible changes to regional biogeochemistry and terrestrial and marine ecosystem functioning are brought about by increases in population intensified land use... more

Dealing With Climate Change on Small Islands: Toward Effective and Sustainable Adaptation (Paperback)

Small islands have received growing attention in the context of climate change. Rising sea-levels intensifying storms changing rainfall patterns and increasing temperatures force islanders to deal with and adapt to a changing climate. How do they... more

Environmental Politics Postmodern Climate Change (Paperback)

A much-needed analysis of international climate change politics as a key issue of modernity and in the context of environmentalism. Leigh Glover presents a new way to understand the climate change problem and is concerned with problems of modernity and... more

Bridging Tourism Theory and Practice: Tourism and the Implications of Climate Change: Issues and Actions (Hardcover)

Provides a platform for knowledge exchange between different disciplines and for learning from both theory and practice in the context of tourism and climate change. This book examines subjects as diverse as: the European hotel sector; the North... more

Mainstreaming Climate Change in Development Cooperation (Hardcover)

Climate change development and development cooperation are individually and jointly three politically sensitive complex issues especially in the context of relations between developed and developing countries. This book tackles these issues by... more

Adaptation to Climate Change: From Resilience to Transformation (Hardcover)

The impacts of climate change are already being felt. Learning how to live with these impacts is a priority for human development. In this context it is too easy to see adaptation as a narrowly defensive task - protecting core assets or functions from... more

Climate Change Agriculture and Society: Approaches Toward Sustainability (Hardcover)

This book discusses emerging contexts of global warming and climate change agricultural vulnerability and adaptation from local to global scale. Climate change resilience in relation to agriculture and livelihoods and multi-dimensionality of various... more

Cornell Environmental Education: Communicating Climate Change: A Guide for Educators (Paperback)

Environmental educators face a formidable challenge when they approach climate change due to the complexity of the science and of the political and cultural contexts in which people live. There is a clear consensus among climate scientists that climate... more

Adaptation to Climate Change: From Resilience to Transformation (Paperback)

The impacts of climate change are already being felt. Learning how to live with these impacts is a priority for human development. In this context it is too easy to see adaptation as a narrowly defensive task - protecting core assets or functions from... more

Climate Change in Prehistory: The End of the Reign of Chaos (Paperback)

How did humankind deal with the extreme challenges of the last Ice Age? How have the relatively benign post-Ice Age conditions affected the evolution and spread of humanity across the globe? By setting our genetic history in the context of climate... more

RFF Press Water Policy: Adaptation and Resilience: The Economics of Climate Water and Energy Challenges in the American Southwest (Hardcover)

In America s arid southwest climate change will occur in the context of already-keen competition for water for agriculture urban growth electricity generation water-based recreation and environmental protections. This book explores the challenges that... more

Integrated Assessment of Vulnerability of Rural Households to Climate (Paperback)

Rural communities in Niger entirely rely on natural resources and have no other option but to smoothing their livelihoods against climate change related knock-on effects. In the context of unpredictable environmental pattern these communities are... more

Sustainable Development Goals: Sustainable Development Goals for Society Vol. 2: Food Security Energy Climate Action and Biodiversity (Paperback)

This book profiles various cases that are emerging in addressing global challenges in the context of SDGs for society in the era of climate change and covers case studies of projects being undertaken to tackle biodiversity food security climate change... more

Rtpi Library Planning in an Uncanny World: Australian Urban Planning in an International Context (Hardcover)

This book places Australian conditions and urban planning centrally within comparative analysis of planning systems and cultures around the world to address issues including urban governance climate change transportation planning regional development... more

Advances in Public Interest Accounting: Extending Schumacher s Concept of Total Accounting and Accountability Into the 21st Century (Hardcover)

Intends to posit Schumacher s Middle Way thinking in the context of growing concerns about global warming and climatic changes and teases out its implications for holistic accountability by introducing readers to the science of climate change and its... more

The Environmental Crisis and Art : Thoughtlessness Responsibility and Imagination (Hardcover)

The global challenge of climate change presents a daunting task that requires human thinking and ingenuity. In this context stories narratives and images can provide incentives for the imagination essential in grappling with the complex perplexities of... more

Utopian Politics: Citizenship and Practice (Routledge Innovations in Political Theory) - Firth Rhiannon

In the context of global problems such as the economic downturn escalating inequality terrorism resource depletion and climate change cynicism prevails in contemporary politics which need not be the case. Utopian Politics confronts a world intensely... more

Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Development in Asia (Hardcover)

In the present global context some countries still face many challenges to bringing about inclusive efficient and environmentally sustainable development. Simultaneously the stakes of survival are rising as climate change exacerbates both environmental... more

Biblical Prophets and Contemporary Environmental Ethics: Re-Reading Amos Hosea and First Isaiah (Hardcover)

In the context of growing concern over climate change and other environmental pressures Biblical Prophets and Contemporary Environmental Ethics explores what an ecological reading of the biblical text can contribute to contemporary environmental... more

Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation: Energy Policy and the Environment: Modeling Sustainable Development for the North (Hardcover)

This book sets the questions of energy and the environment in the North in the global context and further addresses historical developments views on energy taxation and tariffs and effects of EU energy policy. Climate change appears more frequently... more

Special Education and School Reform in the United States and Britain (Paperback)

This book is about how special education policy and practice is being negotiated within the context of educational reform in two countries. The political climate of recent years in both Britain and the USA led to many changes along similar lines with a... more

Environmental Physics: Sustainable Energy and Climate Change (Paperback)

This thoroughly revised and updated third edition focuses on the utilization of sustainable energy and mitigating climate change serving as an introduction to physics in the context of societal problems. A distinguishing feature of the text is the... more

Pre-Owned Climate Change in Prehistory: The End of the Reign of Chaos Paperback - USED

How did humankind deal with the extreme challenges of the last Ice Age? How have the relatively benign post-Ice Age conditions affected the evolution and spread of humanity across the globe? By setting our genetic history in the context of climate... more

Drought in Bulgaria: A Contemporary Analog for Climate Change (Paperback)

Given the different geographical and human contexts in which climate change impacts will be experienced thinking by analogy provides one useful way to explore dimensions of such change. This landmark book based on the human dimensions of global change... more

Catastrophes in Context: Going Forward by Looking Back: Archaeological Perspectives on Socio-Ecological Crisis Response and Collapse (Paperback)

Catastrophes are on the rise due to climate change as is their toll in terms of lives and livelihoods as world populations rise and people settle into hazardous places. While disaster response and management are traditionally seen as the domain of the... more

Routledge Explorations in Environmental Carbon Markets or Climate Finance?: Low Carbon and Adaptation Investment Choices for the Developing World Book 34 (Hardcover)

This book builds on a decade-long experience with mechanisms provided by the Kyoto Protocol and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. It discusses the challenges of climate finance in the context of the post-Copenhagen negotiations and... more

Rtpi Library Planning in an Uncanny World: Australian Urban Planning in an International Context (Paperback)

This book places Australian conditions and urban planning centrally within comparative analysis of planning systems and cultures around the world to address issues including urban governance climate change transportation planning regional development... more

Catastrophes in Context: Designing Knowledge Economies for Disaster Resilience: Case Studies from the African Diaspora (Hardcover)

Disaster research has been studied from many angles seldom targeting its implications for vulnerable territories in Africa. Entities most subject to the effects of climate change are often undeveloped and located in disadvantaged regions. Post-disaster... more

Building Integrated Photovoltaics: A Handbook (Hardcover)

Photovoltaics is one of the most promising technologies for global energy production in the context of the energy crisis and climate change. Photovoltaic modules are now available in such a wide range of forms that nearly all of the usual fl at parts... more

Pog: Pod Off-Grid: Explorations Into Low Energy Waterborne Communities 1935935151 (Paperback - Used)

Despite the continued risk of widespread flooding through Climate Change living working and playing on water continues to be a necessity and a way of life for many. In the context of population increase rapid urbanisation and technological advancement... more

Advanced Modeling Control and Optimization Methods in Power Hybrid Systems - 2021 (Hardcover)

The climate changes that are becoming visible today are a challenge for the global research community. In this context renewable energy sources fuel cell systems and other energy generating sources must be optimally combined and connected to the grid... more

Planning Heritage and Sustainability Culture and Rural-Urban Revitalisation in South Africa: Indigenous Knowledge Policies and Planning (Paperback)

This book captures ground-breaking attempts to utilise culture in territorial development and regeneration processes in the context of South Africa and our new normal brought by COVID-19 the fourth industrial revolution and climate change the world... more

Climate Change Management: Handbook of Climate Change Communication: Vol. 2: Practice of Climate Change Communication (Hardcover)

This comprehensive handbook provides a unique overview of the theory methodologies and best practices in climate change communication from around the world. It fosters the exchange of information ideas and experience gained in the execution of... more

Climate Change Management: Universities and Climate Change: Introducing Climate Change to University Programmes (Hardcover)

Climate change is a matter of global concern and specific sectors of society such as universities need to engage and be active in the search for regional and local solutions for what is a global problem. Despite the fact that many universities all... more

Climate Change Management: Climate Change Hazards and Adaptation Options: Handling the Impacts of a Changing Climate (Hardcover)

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Climate Change Management: Climate Literacy and Innovations in Climate Change Education: Distance Learning for Sustainable Development (Hardcover)

This book addresses the links between climate change and the threats it poses to sustainable development from a distance education perspective. Discussing current trends and challenges in sustainable development education climate literacy and... more

The Science of Climate Change: Future of Marine Life in a Changing Ocean The: The Fate of Marine Organisms and Processes Under Climate Change and Other Types of Human Perturbation (Hardcover)

This book brings together the state of our knowledge on the interactions between climate change and marine biota. It focusses broadly on the environmental stressors during the Anthropocene period; when human activities started to have a significant... more

Forces of Climate Change: The War on Carbon is Inconsequential to Climate Change (Hardcover)

War on fossil fuels and carbon is inconsequential to climate change... Although this book is factual and based on unbiased peer reviewed science the data is presented so that anyone can understand the forces behind climate change. For years carbon... more