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Climate since AD 1500by
Routledge 1994; US$ 97.00
To understand how climate may vary in the future, we need to understand how/why it has varied in the past. This book offers a new perspective on the "Little Ice Age" and the climate of the 20th century, presenting climate/meteorological records available for the last 500 years. more...
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Towards a Sustainable Asiaby The Association of Academies of Sciences in Asia (AASA)
Springer 2012; US$ 109.99
This series of books are the output of the research project called "Sustainable Development in Asia (SDA)", which was initiated by the Association of Academies of Sciences in Asia (AASA). They are comprised of one synthesis report, which entitled "Towards a Sustainable Asia: Green Transition and Innovation", and four thematic reports... more...
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Climate Economicsby Frank Ackerman; Elizabeth A. Stanton
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 140.00
Climate science paints a bleak picture: The continued growth of greenhouse gas emissions is increasingly likely to cause irreversible and catastrophic effects. Urgent action is needed to prepare for the initial rounds of climatic change, which are already unstoppable. While the opportunity to avert all climate damage has now passed, well-designed... more...
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Climate Change and Adaptationby James Adejuwon; Vicente Barros; Ian Burton; Jyoti Kulkarni; Rodel Lasco; Neil Leary
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 69.95
?This book provides valuable lessons that will improve public policy and the quality of decisions that will affect generations to come.? Richard Moss, Senior Director Climate and Energy, United Nations Foundation ?An excellent addition to the body of knowledge on adaptation to climate change from the developing world, which has been largely missing... more...
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Extremes in a Changing Climateby Amir AghaKouchak; David Easterling; Kuolin Hsu; Siegfried Schubert; Soroosh Sorooshian
Springer 2012; US$ 99.99
This book provides a collection of the state-of-the-art methodologies and approaches suggested for detecting extremes, trend analysis, accounting for nonstationarities, and uncertainties associated to extreme value analysis in a changing climate condition. Furthermore, the book addresses current hydrometeorologic global data sets and their applications... more...
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Exploring the Secrets of the Auroraby Syun-ichi Akasofu
Springer 2007; US$ 64.99
The Aurora offers plenty of scientific data to explain. This work describes the progress made in auroral science and magnetospheric physics by providing examples of ideas, controversies, struggles, acceptance, and success. It tells the history of pre-space age solar-terrestrial relations. It also includes full-color photos of the aurora. more...
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Life in Europe Under Climate Changeby Joseph Alcamo; Jorgen E. Olesen
Wiley 2012; US$ 79.95
Life in Europe will indeed go on as the climate changes, but not in the same way as before. The air will be warmer, winds will change, patterns of rainfall and snowfall will alter, and sea level is likely to rise. These phenomena are already being seen. Europe will in the future experience marked changes in vegetation cover, increased floods along... more...
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Weatherby Michael Allaby
Dorling Kindersley 2006; US$ 7.99
Feel the power of nature with DK Guide to Weather. Cutting edge satellite imagery allows you to examine amazing weather phenomena in close-up detail - from powerful storms to blistering heat. more...
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The Two-Mile Time Machineby Richard B. Alley
Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 25.95
Richard Alley, one of the world's leading climate researchers, tells the fascinating history of global climate changes as revealed by reading the annual rings of ice from cores drilled in Greenland. In the 1990s he and his colleagues made headlines with the discovery that the last ice age came to an abrupt end over a period of only three years. Here... more...
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Rethinking Climate Change Researchby Pernille Almlund; Per Homann Jespersen; S�ren Riis
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 124.95
The 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...
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