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Global Coastal Change 9781405136853 Used / Pre-owned

Global Coastal Change provides a comprehensive overview of the environmental factors changing the marine systems of the world including atmospheric changes sea level rise alterations in freshwater and sediment use and transport toxins overfishing alien... more

Pre-Owned Hydrology and Global Environmental Change (Understanding Global Environmental Change) Paperback

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Understanding Global Environmental Chang Climate and Global Environmental Change (Hardcover)

Climatic change now more than ever in this age of global warming is seen as fundamental to the study of the environment. This text examines the importance of climate as one of the major forcing functions in the global environmental change process. It... more

Pre-Owned Global Environmental Change : A Natural and Cultural Environmental History 9780582277229 Used

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Global change research summaries of research in ... / United States Department of Energy Office of Energy Research Office of Health and Environmental Research Environmental Sc

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Public Health/Environmental Health Environmental Policy and Public Health: Air Pollution Global Climate Change and Wilderness Book 14 (Paperback)

This important resource provides an overview of the major environmental policy issues both historic and topical and explains how science plays a role in various forms of policy response. It scrutinizes the sources of pollution and threats to... more

New Approaches to International History: Climate Change and International History: Negotiating Science Global Change and Environmental Justice (Paperback)

Exploring how climate change has configured the international arena since the 1950s this book reveals the ways that climate change emerged and evolved as an international problem and how states scientists and non-governmental organizations have engaged... more

Advances in Global Change Research: Environmental Change and Agricultural Sustainability in the Mekong Delta (Hardcover)

Comprising selected material from a 2010 conference held in the delta itself the papers assembled in this volume include much technical information and offer a full range of perspectives on the environmental and sustainability issues in this sensitive... more

World-Systems Evolution and Global Futures: Global Challenges of Climate Change Vol.2: Risk Assessment Political and Social Dimension of the Green Energy Transition (Hardcover)

This two-volume book offers a broad range of discussions on the immense challenge of climate change one confronting every country on the planet and forcing them to find a path towards a sustainable future that will not have disastrous consequences in... more

Global Environmental Change and Agriculture : Assessing the Impacts

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Global Ecology : Environmental Change and Social Flexibility

Global Ecology: Environmental Change and Social Flexibility... more

Pre-Owned Climate and Global Environmental Change 9780582322615 Used

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Winds of Change : The Environmental Movement and the Global Development of the Wind Energy Industry

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Changes in the global carbon cycle and the biosphere / Jerry S. Olson Environmental Sciences Division Helen A. Pfuderer Ecological Sciences Information Center Y [Leather Bound]

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NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental: Climate: Global Change and Local Adaptation (Paperback)

Based on the results of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Global Climate Change and Local Adaptation Hella Iceland 6-10 June 2010 --T.p. verso. more

Pre-Owned Global Environmental Change : An Atmospheric Perspective 9780471130734

This text focuses on the atmosphere and how it works as a global entity to maintain a given global climate or ozone shield and how it is influenced by human activity. A complete reference for students of environmental science and related fields it... more

Global Governance of the Environment : Environmental Principles and Change In International Law and Politics

Global Governance of the Environment : Environmental Principles and Change In International Law and Politics more

Ethics and Global Environmental Policy : Cosmopolitan Conceptions of Climate Change

Ethics and Global Environmental Policy : Cosmopolitan Conceptions of Climate Change more

Global Environmental Change: Challenges to Science and Society in Southeastern Europe: Selected Papers Presented in the International Conference Held 19-21 May 2008 in Sofia Bulgaria (Hardcover)

This book is the outcome of the conference Global Environmental Change: Challenges to Science and Society in Southeastern Europe organized by the Scienti c Coordination Center for Global Change (SCCGC) at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences jointly with... more

Pre-Owned Geomorphology and Global Environmental Change 9780521878128

This volume provides a benchmark statement from the world s leading geomorphologists on the state of and potential changes to the environment. Focusing on catalysts of landscape change other than climate including relief hydroclimate sea-level... more

Resilience Through Knowledge Co-Production: Indigenous Knowledge Science and Global Environmental Change (Hardcover)

Confronted with the complex environmental crises of the Anthropocene scientists have moved towards an interdisciplinary approach to address challenges that are both social and ecological. Several arenas are now calling for co-production of new... more

Global Environmental Change and Human Security

Experts discuss the risks global environmental change poses for the human security including disaster and disease violence and increasing inequity. more

Mit Press Managing Institutional Complexity: Regime Interplay and Global Environmental Change (Paperback)

Experts investigate how states and other actors can improve inter-institutional synergy and examine the complexity of overlapping environmental governance structures. Institutional interaction and complexity are crucial to environmental governance and... more

Global Environmental Change : An Integrated Modelling Approach

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Global Change and the Earth System : A Planet under Pressure 9783540265948 Used / Pre-owned

Global Change and the Earth System describes what is known about the Earth system and the impact of changes caused by humans. It considers the consequences of these changes with respect to the stability of the Earth system and the well-being of... more

Dimensions of Security: Security and Environmental Change (Paperback)

This book provides students with a thorough analysis of the new security challenges produced by global environmental change. In a clear analysis Dalby shows that theories of human security now require a more nuanced geopolitical imagination if they are... more

Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication: Digital Games After Climate Change (Paperback)

This book presents the first sustained analysis of the digital game industry s carbon footprint and its role in exacerbating global climate change. Identifying the ways videogames can actually help combat the climate crisis it argues for the urgency of... more

NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental: Influence of Climate Change on the Changing Arctic and Sub-Arctic Conditions (Hardcover)

The current warming trends in the Arctic may shove the Arctic system into a seasonally ice-free state not seen for more than one million years. The melting is accelerating and researchers were unable to identify natural processes that might slow the... more

Sattelite Based Assessment of Drought and Environmental Change (Paperback)

This study illustrates the results of an analysis performed using Remotely Sensed Data and Geographic Information Systems technique in land use/cover assessment of Lake Chad Basin. Landsat Multi Spectral Scanner Thematic Mapper Enhanced Thematic Mapper... more

Pre-Owned Institutional Dynamics: Emergent Patterns in International Environmental Governance Earth System Paperback Professor Oran R Young

An analysis of patterns of change in international environmental regimes with five case studies illustrating the patterns identified. CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust... more

Handbook of Environmental Chemistry: Cost-Efficient Wastewater Treatment Technologies: Engineered Systems (Hardcover)

Overview Objectives Principles and State-of-the-Art of Engineered-Based Wastewater Treatment Technologies.- Simplified Engineered-Based Wastewater Treatment Technologies: Energy Climate Change and Land-Use Aspects.- Biotechnology for Green Future of... more

Pre-Owned Saving the Planet: How to Shape an Environmentally Sustainable Global Economy (Worldwatch Environmental Alert) Paperback

The authors of the highly acclaimed State of the World series elaborate upon their vision of a global economy that does not destroy its own natural support systems. CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal... more

Developments in Hydrobiology: The Subalpine Lake Ecosystem ØVre Heimdalsvatn and Its Catchment: Local and Global Changes Over the Last 50 Years (Hardcover)

environmental variables are estimated and then applied to fossil assemblages under the assumption Plant and animal remains are often found well that the biota is in equilibrium with concurring preserved and in large quantities as fossils in lake... more

Pre-Owned Atlas of Satellite Observations Related to Global Change 9780521434676 Used

Global environmental change is one of the most pressing international issues of the next century. This timely volume provides an illustration of the variety of satellite-derived global data sets now available their uses advantages and limitations and... more

Advances in Global Change Research: Hacia El Futuro: Energy Economics and the Environment in 21st Century Mexico (Paperback)

The past 25 years have witnessed an increasing worldwide concern over the issue of climate change and the specter of immense environmental and economic damage which would accompany unmitigated global warming trends. National governments in the... more

Tropical Rainforests and Agroforests Under Global Change: Ecological and Socio-Economic Valuations (Hardcover)

not only for land use systems that depend on the regular supply of rain or irrigation water but also for the future development of natural rainforests as drought stress has been shown to a?ect tree growth and species composition in old-growth forests... more

Global Change and the Terrestrial Biosphere: Achievements and Challenges (Paperback)

Global climate change challenges ecologists to synthesize what we know to solve a problem with deep historical roots in our discipline. In ecology the question How do terrestrial ecosystems interact with the other earth systems to produce planetary... more

Springer Environmental Management: Adaptive Capacity and Environmental Governance (Hardcover)

Rapid environmental change calls for individuals and societies with an ability to transform our interactions with each other and the ecosystems upon which we depend. Adaptive capacity - the ability of a social-ecological system (or the components of... more