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Saving a Million Species
Springer 2012; US$ 35.00The research paper 'Extinction Risk from Climate Change' published in the journal Nature in January 2004 created front-page headlines around the world. The notion that climate change could drive more than a million species to extinction captured both the popular imagination and the attention of policy-makers, and provoked an unprecedented round... more...
Abrupt Climate Change
Wiley 2013; US$ 120.00Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series. Abrupt Climate Change: Mechanisms, Patterns, and Impacts brings together a diverse group of paleoproxy records such as ice cores, marine sediments, terrestrial (lakes and speleothems) archives, and coupled ocean-atmosphere climate models to document recent advances... more...
The Burning Question
Profile 2013; US$ 15.98The Burning Question reveals climate change to be the most fascinating scientific, political and social puzzle in history. It shows that carbon emissions are still accelerating upwards, following an exponential curve that goes back centuries. One reason is that saving energy is like squeezing a balloon: reductions in one place lead to increases elsewhere.... more...
Experimenting on a Small Planet
Springer 2012; US$ 21.99This book is a thorough introduction to climate science and global change. The author is a geologist who has spent much of his life investigating the climate of Earth from a time when it was warm and dinosaurs roamed the land, to today's changing climate.Bill Hay takes you on a journey to understand how the climate system works. He explores how... more...
Rethinking Climate Change Research
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 124.95The problems and debates surrounding climate change possess closely intertwined social and scientific aspects. This book highlights the importance of researching climate change through a multi-disciplinary approach; namely through cultural studies, communication studies, and clean-technology studies. These three dimensions taken together have the ability... more...
Climate Change and the Crisis of Capitalism
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 148.00Are established economic, social and political practices capable of dealing with the combined crises of climate change and the global economic system? Will falling back on the wisdoms that contributed to the crisis help us to find ways forward or simply reconfigure risk in another guise? This volume argues that the combination of global environmental... more...
The Social Life of Climate Change Models
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 125.00Drawing on a combination of perspectives from diverse fields, this volume offers an anthropological study of climate change and the ways in which people attempt to predict its local implications, showing how the processes of knowledge making among lay people and experts are not only comparable but also deeply entangled. Through analysis of predictive... more...
The Handbook of Global Climate and Environment Policy
Wiley 2013; US$ 195.00The Handbook of Global Climate and Environment Policy presents an authoritative and comprehensive overview of global policy on climate and the environment. It combines the strengths of an interdisciplinary team of experts from around the world to explore current debates and the latest thinking in the search for global environmental solutions. ... more...
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