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  • Climate Change and National Security

    A Country-Level Analysis

    by Daniel Moran, Joanna I. Lewis, Carlyle A. Thayer, Paul D. Hutchcroft, Michael S. Malley, T.V. Paul, Daniel Markey, Ali Riaz, Celeste A. Wallander, Edward Schatz0, Chad Briggs1, Stacy D. VanDeveer2, Ibrahim Al-Marashi3, James A. Russell4, Gregory White5, Linda J. Beck6, E. Mark Pires7, Dennis Galvan8, Brian Guy9, Ngonidzashe Munemo0, Kent Eaton1, Jeffrey Cason2 ...
    In this unique and innovative contribution to environmental security, an international team of scholars explore and estimate the intermediate-term security risks that climate change may pose for the United States, its allies and partners, and for regional and global order through the year 2030. In profiles of forty-two key countries and regions, each contributor considers the problems that climate ... Read more

    $53.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Cold, Hungry and in the Dark

    Exploding the Natural Gas Supply Myth

    by Bill Powers ...
    An energy industry insider delivers hard truths about the reality of fracking.Conventional wisdom has North America entering a new era of energy abundance thanks to shale gas. But has industry been honest? Cold, Hungry and in the Dark argues that declining productivity combined with increasing demand will trigger a crisis that will cause prices to skyrocket, damage the economy, and have a profound ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Waking the Giant

    How a changing climate triggers earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes

    by Bill McGuire ...
    Twenty thousand years ago our planet was an icehouse. Temperatures were down six degrees; ice sheets kilometres thick buried much of Europe and North America and sea levels were 130m lower. The following 15 millennia saw an astonishing transformation as our planet metamorphosed into the temperate world upon which our civilisation has grown and thrived. One of the most dynamic periods in Earth ... Read more

    $13.29 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

  • Permaculture and Climate Change Adaptation

    by Thomas Henfry, Gil Penha-Lopes ...
    Permaculture is a design system for sustainable human habitats and basis of a worldwide citizen-led movement present in over 100 countries.For decades, permaculture practitioners have devised creative responses to changes in local climatic conditions. In doing so, they have developed a collective knowledge and experience invaluable to global efforts to address climate change.This book seeks to ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Paris Agreement on Climate Change

    Analysis and Commentary

    Edited by Daniel Klein, Meinhard Doelle, Jane Bulmer, Andrew Higham, María Pía Carazo ...
    The most important climate agreement in history, the Paris Agreement on Climate Change represents the commitment of the nations of the world to address and curb climate change. Signed in December 2015, it entered into force on 4th November 2016. Countries are moving into implementation, and efforts at all levels will be needed to fulfill its ambitious goals. The Paris Climate Agreement: Commentary ... Read more

    $53.09 USD

  • Climate Change And The Energy Problem: Physical Science And Economics Perspective

    by David L Goodstein, Michael D Intriligator ...
    This important compendium deals with the primary world problems of global warming and the coming energy crisis. In alternating chapters, it lays out the nature of the two interrelated problems, and specifies the various economic considerations. Thus, it describes the coming shortfall of fossil fuel energy in detail and then presents the economic factors governing possible solutions.Written by two ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • From Kyoto to the Town Hall

    Making International and National Climate Policy Work at the Local Level

    Edited by Lennart J. Lundqvist, Anders Biel ...
    International agreements such as the Kyoto Protocol, EU regulation and country-specific national climate policies offer some hope of addressing climate change. But all too often implementation of these high level objectives is derailed at the sub-national, local and - perhaps most important - individual level, by a variety of structural, policy and perceived barriers that result in a failure of ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Complex Systems and Social Practices in Energy Transitions

    Framing Energy Sustainability in the Time of Renewables

    Edited by Nicola Labanca ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book offers an interdisciplinary discussion of the fundamental issues concerning policies for sustainable transition to renewable energies from the perspectives of sociologists, physicists, engineers, economists, anthropologists, biologists, ecologists and policy analysts. Adopting a combined approach, these are analysed taking both complex systems and social practice theories into ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Seaweed Biology

    Novel Insights into Ecophysiology, Ecology and Utilization

    Edited by Christian Wiencke, Kai Bischof ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Seaweeds, also known as macroalgae, are among the most important primary producers and act as ecological engineers on rocky coasts of the world’s oceans. In addition to their extreme ecological importance they are also of high economic relevance. Complementing available textbooks with its more research-oriented approach, this volume contains 22 chapters by renowned experts, grouped in five parts. ... Read more

    $332.09 USD

  • Sustainable Agriculture Reviews

    Volume 19

    Edited by Eric Lichtfouse ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book features articles that analyze current agricultural issues and knowledge. It also proposes novel, environmentally friendly solutions that are based on integrated information from such fields as agronomy, soil science, molecular biology, chemistry, toxicology, ecology, economics and the social sciences.Coverage examines ways to produce food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Energy Return on Investment

    A Unifying Principle for Biology, Economics, and Sustainability

    by Charles A.S. Hall ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This authoritative but highly accessible book presents the reader with a powerful framework for understanding the critical role of the energy return on investment (EROI) in the survival and well-being of individuals, ecosystems, businesses, economies and nations. Growth and development are fundamental and ubiquitous processes at all scales, from individuals to food crops to national economies. ... Read more

    $71.99 USD