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  • The Hartwell Approach to Climate Policy

    Edited by Steve Rayner, Mark Caine ...
    Series series The Earthscan Science in Society Series
    The Hartwell Approach to Climate Policy presents a powerful critique of mainstream climate change policies and details a set of pragmatic alternatives based on the Hartwell Group’s collective writings from 1988-2010. Drawing on a rich history of heterodox but increasingly accepted views on climate change policy, this book brings together in a single volume a series of key, related texts that ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Institutional Capacity for Climate Change Response

    A New Approach to Climate Politics

    Edited by Steve Rayner, Theresa Scavenius ...
    Series series The Earthscan Science in Society Series
    In a period of rapid climate change and climate governance failures, it is crucial to understand and address how effectively different political institutions can and should react to climate change.The term 'institutional response capacity' can be defined as a measurement for how effective political institutions may respond to threats and challenges such as climate change. This book sets out to ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Unnatural Selection

    The Challenges of Engineering Tomorrow's People

    Edited by Peter Healey, Steve Rayner ...
    Series series The Earthscan Science in Society Series
    With ever-advancing scientific understanding and technological capabilities, humanity stands on the brink of the potential next stage of evolution: evolution engineered by us. Nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and cognitive science offer the possibility to enhance human performance, lengthen life-span and reshape our inherited physical, cognitive and emotional identities. But ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Endgame, Volume 1

    The Problem of Civilization

    by Derrick Jensen ...
    The long-awaited companion piece to Derrick Jensen's immensely popular and highly acclaimed works A Language Older Than Words and The Culture of Make Believe. Accepting the increasingly widespread belief that industrialized culture inevitably erodes the natural world, Endgame sets out to explore how this relationship impels us towards a revolutionary and as-yet undiscovered shift in strategy. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Northern Lights

    by Lucy Jago ...
    Science, biography, and arctic exploration coverage in this extraordinary true story of the life and work of Norwegian scientist Kristian Birkeland, the troubled genius who solved the mysteries of one of nature’s most spectacular displays.Captivated by the otherworldly lights of the aurora borealis, Birkeland embarked on a lifelong quest to discover their cause. His pursuit took him to some of the ... Read more

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  • Global Warming Gridlock

    Creating More Effective Strategies for Protecting the Planet

    by David G. Victor ...
    Global warming is one of today's greatest challenges. The science of climate change leaves no doubt that policies to cut emissions are overdue. Yet, after twenty years of international talks and treaties, the world is now in gridlock about how best to do this. David G. Victor argues that such gridlock has arisen because international talks have drifted away from the reality of what countries are ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Towards a Warmer World

    What Climate Change Will Mean for New Zealand’s Future

    by Veronika Meduna ...
    Series Book 32 - BWB Texts
    The year 2014 was the hottest on record since we’ve begun collecting global temperature measurements in 1880. Even at its midway point, 2015 was already promising to take over this dubious record.As new thresholds are breached, acclaimed Radio New Zealand science writer Veronika Meduna explores our future in a warmer world. Beginning with lessons from our ancient geological past, this BWB Text ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Salt Tectonics

    Principles and Practice

    by Martin P. A. Jackson, Michael R. Hudec ...
    Salt tectonics is the study of how and why salt structures evolve and the three-dimensional forms that result. A fascinating branch of geology in itself, salt tectonics is also vitally important to the petroleum industry. Covering the entire scale from the microscopic to the continental, this textbook is an unrivalled consolidation of all topics related to salt tectonics: evaporite deposition and ... Read more

    $101.99 USD

  • Climate-Challenged Society

    by John S. Dryzek, Richard B. Norgaard, David Schlosberg ...
    This book is an original, accessible, and thought-provoking introduction to the severe and broad-ranging challenges that climate change presents and how societies can respond. It synthesizes and deploys cutting-edge scholarship on the range of social, economic, political, and philosophical issues surrounding climate change. The treatment is introductory, but the book is written "with attitude", ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Environmental Sustainability: An Evaluation Of World Bank Group

    by World Bank ...
    This evaluation assesses the Bank Group's support for environmental sustainability in both the public and private sectors over the past 15 years. It identifies several crucial constraints that need to be addressed, perhaps most importantly insufficient government commitment to environmental goals and weak institutional capacity to deal with them. But constraints within the Bank Group, including ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Instrumentation in Earthquake Seismology

    by Gerardo Alguacil, Jens Havskov ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This work provides an up-to-date overview of modern instruments used in earthquake seismology as well as a description of theoretical and practical aspects of seismic instrumentation. The main topics are:• Choosing and installing equipment for seismic stations• Designing and setting up seismic networks and arrays• Maintaining and calibrating seismic instrumentsIt also provides detailed ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Climate Change Governance

    Edited by Jörg Knieling, Walter Leal Filho ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Climate change is a cause for concern both globally and locally. In order for it to be tackled holistically, its governance is an important topic needing scientific and practical consideration. Climate change governance is an emerging area, and one which is closely related to state and public administrative systems and the behaviour of private actors, including the business sector, as well as the ... Read more

    $143.09 USD