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  • Fires Next Time

    Understanding Australia's Black Summer

    by Peter Christoff ...
    Following a three-year drought and during the hottest and driest year on record, a flume of scorching air set the Australian continent aflame. The Black Summer fires were unprecedented. Over six months in 2019-20 they burned more than 24 million hectares of Australia's southern and eastern forests - one of the largest areas burnt anywhere on Earth in a single event. The fires killed 33 people and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Four Degrees of Global Warming

    Australia in a Hot World

    Edited by Peter Christoff ...
    At Copenhagen in December 2009, the international community agreed to limit global warming to below two degrees Celsius to avoid the worst impacts of human-induced climate change. However climate scientists agree that current national emissions targets collectively will still not achieve this goal. Instead, the ‘ambition gap’ between climate science and climate policy is likely to lead to average ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Globalization and the Environment

    by Peter Christoff, Robyn Eckersley ...
    Series series Globalization
    This book by two leading scholars offers the first systematic analysis of the relationship between globalization and the environment from the early Modern period to the present. Peter Christoff and Robyn Eckersley develop a broad conceptual framework for understanding the globalization of environmental problems and the highly uneven, often faltering, international political response. The authors ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

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  • The Forest Wars

    The ugly truth about what's happening in our tall forests

    by David Lindenmayer ...
    Lifts the lid on destruction of native forests by government corporations and logging industry that is making bushfires worse, killing wildlife and costing taxpayers millions, for the sake of woodchips for export.Since colonisation, Australians have been frantically logging our native forests as if our lives depended on it. Our lives do depend on the forests—but on keeping them, not destroying ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Living Hot

    Surviving and Thriving on a Heating Planet

    by Clive Hamilton, George Wilkenfeld ...
    Living Hot tells the blunt truth about our current climate change predicament: it's time to get cracking on making Australia resilient to intensifying climate extremes. If we prepare well, we can give ourselves a fighting chance to preserve some of the best of what we have, build stronger and fairer communities, find a path through the escalating pressures of a warming world – and even find new ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Climate Aotearoa

    What's happening & what we can do about it

    by Helen Clark ...
    The science on climate change in Aotearoa New Zealand now and in the future, and what changes we all need to make.Contributions from a range of climate scientists and commentators Rob Bell, Jason Boberg, Adelia Hallett, Sophie Handford, Rhys Jones, Haylee Koroi, Matt McGlone, Jamie Morton, Rod Oram, Jim Salinger, Kera Sherwood-O'Regan, Simon Thrush and Andrew Jeffs.Climate Aotearoa outlines the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Just Earth

    How a Fairer World Will Save the Planet

    by Tony Juniper ...
    'Everyone should read this book' - George Monbiot'A compelling read for anyone who cares about all lives on our planet' - Tanya Steele CBE, CEO of WWF UKIn this extraordinary and hopeful book, leading environmentalist Tony Juniper CBE identifies the real problem at the heart of the climate and nature crises.From soil loss to wildfires, degraded rivers, mass migration and conflict, the ... Read more

    $16.09 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Understanding Environmental Issues

    Edited by Susan Buckingham, Mike Turner ...
    "Understanding Environmental Issues provides an excellent foundation for developing critical thinking about contemporary environmental concerns and the ways in which these are debated, represented and managed. The book should achieve its aim of stimulating students to engage with how ideas of sustainability and environmental justice can be applied both in policy and in practical action."- Gordon ... Read more

    $94.49 USD

  • Handbook of Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction

    Edited by Ben Wisner, Ilan Kelman, J.C. Gaillard ...
    The Handbook provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for hazard and disaster research, policy making, and practice in an international and multi-disciplinary context. It offers critical reviews and appraisals of current state of the art and future development of conceptual, theoretical and practical approaches as well as empirical knowledge and available tools.Organized into five ... Read more

    $104.99 USD

  • A Big Fix

    Radical Solutions for Australia's Environmental Crisis, expanded and revised edition

    by Ian Lowe ...
    ‘If civilisation is to survive, this century will have to be a time of dramatic transformation, not just in technological capacity but also in our approach to the natural world - and each other. The road we are travelling now can only end in disaster.' - Ian LoweThe warnings from scientists are unequivocal: we cannot sustain our current levels of consumption and growth. We are depleting the Earth ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Planning for Climate Change

    Strategies for Mitigation and Adaptation for Spatial Planners

    Edited by Simin Davoudi, Jenny Crawford, Abid Mehmood ...
    Climate change is changing the context of spatial planning and shaping its priorities. It has strengthened its environmental dimension and has become a new rationale for coordinating actions and integrating different policy priorities.This book sets out the economic, social and environmental challenges that climate change raises for urban and regional planners and explores current and potential ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Flood Country

    An Environmental History of the Murray-Darling Basin

    by Emily O'Gorman ...
    Floods in the Murray-Darling Basin are crucial sources of water for people, animals and plants in this often dry region of inland eastern Australia. Even so, floods have often been experienced as natural disasters, which have led to major engineering schemes. Flood Country explores the contested and complex history of this region, examining the different ways in which floods have been understood ... Read more

    $37.99 USD