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  • The Climate Change Crisis

    Solutions and Adaption for a Planet in Peril

    by Ross Michael Pink ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores how the world community will respond to the unfolding humanitarian crisis caused by climate change. It recognises climate change as the greatest threat to human development in the 21st century, bringing with it: flooding, drought, extreme temperatures, health crises, threats to human security and severe harm to economic development.The Climate Change Crisis addresses climate ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

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  • The Age of Sustainable Development

    by Jeffrey D. Sachs ...
    Jeffrey D. Sachs is one of the world's most perceptive and original analysts of global development. In this major new work he presents a compelling and practical framework for how global citizens can use a holistic way forward to address the seemingly intractable worldwide problems of persistent extreme poverty, environmental degradation, and political-economic injustice: sustainable development ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

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  • Common Wealth

    Economics for a Crowded Planet

    by Jeffrey D. Sachs ...
    “Lucid, quietly urgent, and relentlessly logical . . . this is Bigthink with a capital B.” —The New York Times Book Review“Common Wealth explains the most basic economic reckoning that the world faces.” —Al Gore, winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize and former vice president of the United StatesIn Common Wealth, Jeffrey D. Sachs-one of the world's most respected economists and the author of The ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)

    by Lester R. Brown ...
    "How to build a more just world and save the planet....We should all heed Brown's advice."—Bill ClintonIn this updated edition of the landmark Plan B, Lester Brown outlines a survival strategy for our early twenty-first-century civilization. The world faces many environmental trends of disruption and decline, including rising temperatures and spreading water shortage. In addition to these looming ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Water

    by David L. Feldman ...
    Series series Resources
    Water is our planet’s most precious resource. It is required by every living thing, yet a huge proportion of the world’s population struggles to access clean water daily. Agriculture, aquaculture, industry, and energy all depend on it - yet its provision and safety engender widespread conflict; battles likely to intensify as threats to freshwater abundance and quality, such as climate change, ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Convenient Solutions For An Inconvenient Truth: Ecosystem-Based Approaches To Climate Change

    by World Bank ...
    Global warming and changes in climate will have severe and lasting impacts on national efforts to alleviate poverty and promote sustainable development. Some of the world's poorest countries and communities are the most vulnerable and are already suffering the consequences. Yet often these countries are rich in natural capital, ecosystems, and biodiversity that can contribute to solutions as they ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Geography for the IB Diploma Study and Revision Guide SL and HL Core

    SL and HL Core

    by Simon Oakes ...
    Exam Board: IBLevel: IBSubject: GeographyFirst Teaching: September 2017First Exam: Summer 2019Stretch your students to achieve their best grade with these year round course companions; provides comprehensive content on all topics, and practice questions to support and strengthen learning.- Develop understanding and knowledge with... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Blue Covenant

    The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water

    by Maude Barlow ...
    A cautionary account of climate change and the global water supply. "You will not turn on the tap in the same way after reading this book." —Robert RedfordIn a book hailed by Publishers Weekly as a "passionate plea for access-to-water activism," Blue Covenant addresses an environmental crisis that—together with global warming—poses one of the gravest threats to our survival.How did the world's ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Boiling Point

    How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Have Fueled a Climate Crisis -- And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster

    by Ross Gelbspan ...
    In Boiling Point, Ross Gelbspan argues that, unchecked, climate change will swamp every other issue facing us today. Indeed, what began as an initial response of many institutions -- denial and delay -- has now grown into a crime against humanity. The fossil fuel industry is directing the Bush administration's energy and climate policies-payback for helping Bush get elected. But they're not the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Climate Change and Natural Disasters

    Transforming Economies and Policies for a Sustainable Future

    by Vinod Thomas ...
    The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781351527927*, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license*The start of the new millennium will be remembered for deadly climate-related disasters - the great floods in Thailand in 2011, Super Storm Sandy in the United States in 2012, and Typhoon Haiyan ... Read more

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  • Overheated

    The Human Cost of Climate Change

    by Andrew T. Guzman ...
    Deniers of climate change sometimes quip that claims about global warming are more about political science than climate science. They are wrong on the science, but may be right with respect to its political implications. A hotter world, writes Andrew Guzman, will bring unprecedented migrations, famine, war, and disease. It will be a social and political disaster of the first order. In Overheated, ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Water, Peace, and War

    Confronting the Global Water Crisis

    by Brahma Chellaney ...
    This pioneering and authoritative study considers the profound impact of the growing global water crunch on international peace and security as well as possible ways to mitigate the crisis. Although water is essential to sustaining life and livelihoods, geostrategist Brahma Chellaney argues that it remains the world’s most underappreciated and undervalued resource. One sobering fact is that the ... Read more

    $36.49 USD