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Sekundärer maritimer Klimaschutz: Das Beispiel der Ozeandüngung.
Duncker & Humblot 2012; US$ 99.08Hauptbeschreibung Kerstin Güssow setzt sich mit dem Climate Engineering als Maßnahme des sekundären Klimaschutzes auseinander und analysiert am Beispiel der Ozeandüngung völkerrechtliche Normen auf ihre Anwendbarkeit und Eignung zur Bewertung dieser Methode. Der erste Teil umreißt die naturwissenschaftlichen Hintergründe der Ozeandüngung. Es zeigt... more...
The Agile City
Springer 2012; US$ 35.00In a very short time America has realized that global warming poses real challenges to the nation's future. The Agile City engages the fundamental question: what to do about it? Journalist and urban analyst James S. Russell argues that we'll more quickly slow global-warming -and blunt its effects- by retrofitting cities, suburbs, and towns.The... more...
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...
Local Climate Action Planning
Springer 2012; US$ 37.50This is the first book designed to help planners, municipal staff and officials, citizens and others working at local levels to develop Climate Action Plans. CAPs are strategic plans that establish policies and programs for mitigating a community's greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions. They typically focus on transportation, energy use, and solid waste.... more...
Supersymmetry and Beyond
Basic Books 2013; US$ 16.99The epic story of the quest to uncover a fully unified theory of physics, revised to reflect the possible discovery of the Higgs Boson. more...
The Governance of Climate Change
Wiley 2013; US$ 24.95Climate change poses one of the greatest challenges for human society in the twenty-first century, yet there is a major disconnect between our actions to deal with it and the gravity of the threat it implies. In a world where the fate of countries is increasingly intertwined, how should we think about and, accordingly, how should we manage the types... more...
The Politics of Climate Change
Wiley 2013; US$ 19.95"A landmark study in the struggle to contain climate change, the greatest challenge of our era. I urge everyone to read it." Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States of America Since it first appeared, this book has achieved a classic status. Reprinted many times since its publication, it remains the only work that looks in detail at the... more...
The Warming Papers
Wiley 2013; US$ 209.95Chosen for the 2011 ASLI Choice - Honorable Mention (History Category) for a compendium of the key scientific papers that undergird the global warming forecast. Global warming is arguably the defining scientific issue of modern times, but it is not widely appreciated that the foundations of our understanding were laid almost two centuries ago with... more...
Rainfall
Wiley 2013; US$ 130.00Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series . Rainfall: State of the Science offers the most up-to-date knowledge on the fundamental and practical aspects of rainfall. Each chapter, self-contained and written by prominent scientists in their respective fields, provides three forms of information: fundamental... more...
Operator Theory, Analysis and Mathematical Physics
Springer 2007; US$ 149.99This volume contains lectures delivered by the participants of the International Conference Operator Theory and its Applications in Mathematical Physics (OTAMP 2004), held at the Mathematical Research and Conference Center in Bedlewo near Poznan, Poland. The idea behind these lectures was to present interesting ramifications of operator methods in... more...









