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  • Dead Heat

    Global Justice and Global Warming

    by Tom Athanasiou, Paul Baer ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    Today's "extreme weather events" (record-breaking heat waves, droughts, and melting ice caps) foreshadow an increasingly unstable and dire future. Yet, despite all, the US government continues to reject the Kyoto Protocol, to deny the catastrophic consequences of oil dependency, and to define the politics of oil as the politics of U.S. unilateralism, domination, and war.Dead Heat argues that ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Generation Us

    The Challenge of Global Warming

    by Andrew Weaver ...
    Series series Rapid Reads
    In clear and accessible language, Generation Us explains the phenomenon of global warming, outlines the threat it presents to future generations and offers a path toward solutions to the problem. The reality of global warming has long been accepted within the scientific community, yet it remains a hotly debated topic at the political and social level. Why is this? Is it the fact that the ultimate ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars

    Dispatches from the Front Lines

    by Michael Mann ...
    The ongoing assault on climate science in the United States has never been more aggressive, more blatant, or more widely publicized than in the case of the Hockey Stick graph—a clear and compelling visual presentation of scientific data, put together by MichaelE. Mann and his colleagues, demonstrating that global temperatures have risen in conjunction with the increase in industrialization and the ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Inheritors of the Earth

    How Nature Is Thriving in an Age of Extinction

    by Chris D. Thomas ...
    Human activity has irreversibly changed the natural environment. But the news isn't all bad.It's accepted wisdom today that human beings have permanently damaged the natural world, causing extinction, deforestation, pollution, and of course climate change. But in Inheritors of the Earth, biologist Chris Thomas shows that this obscures a more hopeful truth -- we're also helping nature grow and ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Water

    The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource

    by Marq de Villiers ...
    An award-winning, alarming account of "one of the central challenges facing civilization" ( The Washington Post Book World).Offering ecological, historical, and cultural perspectives, this "well-researched and thought-provoking book" (Minneapolis Tribune) explains how we are using, misusing, and abusing our planet's most vital resource.Reporting from hot spots as diverse as China, Las Vegas, and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Climate Change Denial

    Heads in the Sand

    by Haydn Washington ...
    Humans have always used denial. When we are afraid, guilty, confused, or when something interferes with our self-image, we tend to deny it. Yet denial is a delusion. When it impacts on the health of oneself, or society, or the world it becomes a pathology. Climate change denial is such a case. Paradoxically, as the climate science has become more certain, denial about the issue has increased. The ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Climate Change and Society

    Sociological Perspectives

    Edited by Riley E. Dunlap, Robert J. Brulle ...
    Climate change is one of the most critical issues of the twenty-first century, presenting a major intellectual challenge to both the natural and social sciences. While there has been significant progress in natural science understanding of climate change, social science analyses have not been as fully developed. Climate Change and Society breaks new theoretical and empirical ground by presenting ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • A Short Sensible Book about the World, Us and Global Warming

    by Mord Bogie ...
    This sensible book, written with readers lacking a scientific or technical background in mind, explores the history of global warming — actually, global overheating — that is changing the world's climate and will, if it continues, destabilize human civilization. The book then describes an achievable plan to reverse global overheating, some innovative but little-known technologies to do the heavy ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Protecting the Ozone Layer

    The United Nations History

    by Stephen O Andersen, K Madhava Sarma ...
    In the 1970s the world became aware of a huge danger: the destruction of the stratospheric ozone layer by CFCs escaping into the atmosphere, and the damage this could do to human health and the food chain. So great was the threat that by 1987 the UN had succeeded in coordinating an international treaty to phase out emissions; which, over the following 15 years has been implemented. It has been ... Read more

    $126.99 USD

  • Climate Change Adaptation in Pacific Countries

    Fostering Resilience and Improving the Quality of Life

    Edited by Walter Leal Filho ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book showcases vital lessons learned from research, field projects and best practice examples with regard to climate change adaptation in countries throughout the Pacific region, a part of the planet that is particularly vulnerable to and affected by climate change.The book's primary goals are to document the wealth of experiences in the region available today, to encourage cross-sector ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Climate Terror

    A Critical Geopolitics of Climate Change

    by Sanjay Chaturvedi ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Climate Terror engages with a highly differentiated geographical politics of global warming. It explores how fear-inducing climate change discourses could result in new forms of dependencies, domination and militarised 'climate security'. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Energy Policy in China

    by Chi-Jen Yang ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Energy Policy
    Energy policy has always been an important part of China’s national policy agenda. Although the overall Chinese economy has become largely market-driven, its energy sectors are still subject to varying degrees of government control. Authoritarian governance allows China to move very quickly in some areas, such as hydropower, nuclear power, wind power, and solar energy. However, conflicting ... Read more

    $33.99 USD