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  • A Short Guide to Climate Change Risk

    de Nigel Arnell ...
    Series series Short Guides to Business Risk
    Climate change poses a risk to business operations and to markets, and a poor business response to this risk can lead to reputational damage, or worse. At the same time, climate change can bring opportunities for some businesses. In this addition to Gower’s series of Short Guides to Business Risk, Professor Arnell, one of the world’s leading experts in the field, reviews this critical area of risk ... Leer más

    $48.99 USD

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  • The Ice Age

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Jamie Woodward ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The study of the Quaternary ice age has revolutionized ideas about Earth system change and the pace of landscape and ecosystem dynamics. The Ice Age: A Very Short Introduction looks at evidence from the continents, the oceans, and the ice core records, and the human stories behind it all. Jamie Woodward examines the remarkable environmental shifts that took place during the Great Ice Age of the ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Great Tide Rising

    Towards Clarity and Moral Courage in a time of Planetary Change

    de Kathleen Dean Moore ...
    Even as seas rise against the shores, another great tide is beginning to rise—a tide of outrage against the pillage of the planet, a tide of commitment to justice and human rights, a swelling affirmation of moral responsibility to the future and to Earth's fullness of life.Philosopher and nature essayist Kathleen Dean Moore takes on the essential questions: Why is it wrong to wreck the world? What ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Climate Change Biology

    de Lee Hannah ...
    Climate change biology is a new discipline, born of the recognition that human-induced climate change is resulting in wholesale shifts in the distributions of species and the timing of biological events. The evidence for biological upheaval in response to climate change is immense. Migratory species are arriving earlier in the year. Flowers are blooming earlier. Ranges of plants, mammals and ... Leer más

    $53.99 USD

  • Climate Change, Forced Migration, and International Law

    de Jane McAdam ...
    Displacement caused by climate change is an area of growing concern. With current rises in sea levels and changes to the global climate, it is an issue of fundamental importance to the future of many parts of the world. This book critically examines whether States have obligations to protect people displaced by climate change under international refugee law, international human rights law, and the ... Leer más

    $53.99 USD

  • Tipping Point

    de Toby Clark ...
    It has long been predicted by the World's scientific community, and indeed to my own knowledge from 1961 when I graduated that there would come a time when the planetary resources would become depleted, waste arisings and pollution of the land, air and water would seriously affect the environment we live in and at the same time human numbers due to population growth would become unsustainable. ... Leer más

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  • Acid Rain in Europe

    Counting the cost

    Edición de Helen Apsimon, David Pearce, Ece Ozdemiroglu ...
    The environmental impacts of acid rain: on human health, on buildings and materials, on forests, freshwaters, crops and biodiversity and on global warming have been well-documented. Less is known about the extent and economic costs of these impacts. This book describes the first major implementation of an integrated scientific and economic assessment of the consequences of acid rain. It provides ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

  • “Fingerprints” of Climate Change

    Adapted Behaviour and Shifting Species Ranges

    Edición de Conradin A. Burga, G.-R. Walther, P.J. Edwards ...
    In recent years an increasing number of studies have been published reporting observations of adapted behaviour and shifting species ranges of plant and animal species due to recent climate warming. Are these `fingerprints' of climate change? An international conference was organised to bring together scientists from different continents with different expertise but sharing the same issue of ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Impact of Climate Change on Small Scale Hydro-turbine Selections

    de Uttam Roy, Mrinmoy Majumder ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    Hydropower is found to be one of the most reliable and inexpensive options for renewable energy which was now widely been adopted by many countries to substitute fossil fuel sources. This Brief highlights the impact of climate change on hydropower plants, especially on the turbine design, as turbines are responsible for optimal conversion and regular energy production. The vulnerability of ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Martial Arts and Their Greatest Fighters

    de Kathy Campbell ...
    Series series Inside Sports II
    Martial arts are extremely popular today, and teens will be captivated by the history of the fighting sports. This volume takes a look at kung fu and tai chi chuan in China; the practices of the Japanese samurai warriors as well as jujitsu, judo, sumo, and karate; and the global rise of martial arts from muay Thai in Thailand and capoeira in Brazil to the Mixed Martial Arts that are now so ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Climate Driven Retreat of Mount Baker Glaciers and Changing Water Resources

    de Mauri Pelto ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book presents the impact of climate change on Mount Baker glaciers, USA, and the rivers surrounding them. Glaciers are natural reservoirs that yield their resource primarily on warm dry summer days when other sources are at their lowest yield. This natural tempering of drought conditions will be reduced as they retreat.Mount Baker, a volcano in the Cascades of Washington, is currently host to ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • The Lived Experience of Climate Change

    Knowledge, Science and Public Action

    de Dina Abbott, Gordon Wilson ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book explores the idea that daily lived experiences of climate change are a crucial missing link in our knowledge that contrasts with scientific understandings of this global problem. It argues that both kinds of knowledge are limiting: the sciences by their disciplines and lived experiences by the boundaries of everyday lives. Therefore each group needs to engage the other in order to enrich ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD