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  • Extreme Climate Events, Loss and Damage in Africa

    Resilience and Adaptation

    Edited by Ayansina Ayanlade, Mary Nyasimi, Emily Boyd ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book highlights empirical evidence of how African continent is confronting extreme climate events, focusing on understanding and mitigating climate-induced Loss and Damage.The book examines the various impacts of climate change on Africa, emphasizes both economic and non-economic losses and damages. The book underscores the disproportionate impacts on African communities especially among the ... Read more

    $197.09 USD

  • Climate Change

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Emily Boyd, Emma L. Tompkins ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    The heat is on in the race to save the planetClimate change is the greatest single problem we face as a planet. This important introduction skilfully guides us through the complex mix of scientific, political, social, and environmental issues to examine the manifold threats it poses and explore the possible futures for our world. Focusing on the fact that the point of no return, may in fact have ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Adapting Institutions

    Governance, Complexity and Social-Ecological Resilience

    Edited by Emily Boyd, Carl Folke ...
    Global environmental change is occurring at a rate faster than humans have ever experienced. Climate change and the loss of ecosystem services are the two main global environmental crises facing us today. As a result, there is a need for better understanding of the specific and general resilience of networked ecosystems, cities, organisations and institutions to cope with change. In this book, an ... Read more

    $118.09 USD

  • The New Carbon Economy

    Constitution, Governance and Contestation

    Edited by Max Boykoff, Emily Boyd, Pete Newell ...
    Series Book 48 - Antipode Book Series
    The New Carbon Economy provides a critical understanding of the carbon economy. It offers key insights into the constitution, governance and effects of the carbon economy, across a variety of geographical settings.Examines different dimensions of the carbon economy from a range of disciplinary angles in a diversity of settingsProvides ways for researchers to subject claims of newness and ... Read more

    $36.25 USD

  • Audiobook

    Climate Change

    An Audio Guide

    by Emily Boyd, Emma Tompkins ...
    Narrated by James Adams ...
    Series series Bolinda Beginner Guides

    Unabridged

    5 hours 53 min

    Climate change is the greatest single problem we face as a planet. This important introduction skilfully guides us through the complex mix of scientific, political, social and environmental issues to examine the manifold threats it poses and explore the possible futures for our world. Focusing on the fact that the ‘point of no return’ may in fact have already been passed, Boyd and Tompkins ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • Environmental Economics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stephen Smith ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    If environmental protection is costly, how much should we spend on pollution control? Is it worth reducing pollution to zero, or should we accept some level of pollution because of the economic benefits associated with it? How can we assess the benefits that people get from a less-polluted atmosphere? In broad terms, environmental economics looks at how economic activity and policy affect the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Degrowth

    by Prof. Giorgos Kallis ...
    Series series The Economy Key Ideas
    The term “degrowth” has emerged within ecological and other heterodox schools of economics as a critique of the idea (and ideology) of economic growth. Degrowth argues that economic growth is no longer desirable – its costs exceed its benefits – and advocates a transformation of economies so that they produce and consume less, differently and better.Giorgos Kallis provides a clear and succinct ... Read more

    $26.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Climate Matters

    Ethics in a Warming World

    by John Broome ...
    Series series Norton Global Ethics Series
    A vital new moral perspective on the climate change debate.Esteemed philosopher John Broome avoids the familiar ideological stances on climate change policy and examines the issue through an invigorating new lens. As he considers the moral dimensions of climate change, he reasons clearly through what universal standards of goodness and justice require of us, both as citizens and as governments. ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Environmental Governance

    Institutions, Policies and Actions

    by Arild Vatn ...
    Environmental governance encompasses our relations to nature, spanning institutions and policies in fields such as biodiversity loss, climate change, land use and pollution. This book offers tools for the study of environmental conflicts, analyzes the current status of environmental policies and discusses why we are so far from resolving many of the issues we face. It also offers alternative ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • Heat, Greed and Human Need

    Climate Change, Capitalism and Sustainable Wellbeing

    by Ian Gough ...
    'There are few scholarly books about climate change that take the issue of the distribution of its costs, and of the costs and benefits of its mitigation, as seriously as their absolute value. This is probably the best of those books that I have come across. Rigorously rooted in Gough's earlier work on theories of human need, the book is relentless in its pursuit of equity in respect of climate ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Climate Change in the 21st Century

    by Stewart Cohen ...
    Andrew Sancton combines his own broad knowledge of global changes with an outline and comparison of the viewpoints of prominent social scientists to argue that city regions in western liberal democracies will not and cannot be self-governing. Self-government requires a territory delineated by official boundaries but the multiple boundaries of city-regions unlike the clear and undisputed boundaries ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Global Political Ecology

    Edited by Richard Peet, Paul Robbins, Michael Watts ...
    The world is caught in the mesh of a series of environmental crises. So far attempts at resolving the deep basis of these have been superficial and disorganized. Global Political Ecology links the political economy of global capitalism with the political ecology of a series of environmental disasters and failed attempts at environmental policies.This critical volume draws together contributions ... Read more

    $70.99 USD