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Climate Change

  • Global Warming and the Built Environmentby D.K. Prasad; R. Samuels

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 115.00

    The role of the built environment on global warming is seen to be of increasing relevance. In this book, contributors of international repute offer a wide perspectivet on the subject. This new paperback edition offers insights and techniques regarding design and management of buildings and urban settlement and discusses the issues of accountability... more...

  • Global Warming and Energy Demandby Terry Barker; Paul Ekins; Nick Johnstone

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 79.95

    This book presents a range of current views on the use of economic measures to control greenhouse gas emissions. the authors discuss the responsiveness of the energy market to changes in prices, taxes and incomes. The book's concern with global warming involves analyses of possible energy use both in the long and short term. more...

  • Atmosphere, Weather and Climateby Roger Barry; Richard Chorley; Roger G. Barry; The late Richard Chorley

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 59.95

    Rigorously revised and updated, the 7th edition retains its popular tried and tested structure and remains the most comprehensive guide to the earth's weather processes, climatic conditions, and human impacts on climate change. New features for the 7th edition incude: * extended coverage of regional climates - Australasia, sub-arctic and polar regions,... more...

  • Security and Climate Changeby Mark Lacy

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 49.95

    This new book explains why the international community has responded with a sense of fatalistic passivity to climate change. It presents a distinct critique of realism through the study of this topic, commonly overlooked in international relations. The author argues that the realist view rests on a dangerous contradiction; far from delivering security... more...

  • The Ice Chroniclesby Paul Andrew Mayewski; Frank White; Lynn Margulis

    University of New Hampshire Press 2012; US$ 21.99

    An exciting account of revolutionary new discoveries for understanding the earth's climate, and their implications for future scientific research and global environmental policy. more...

  • Imperiled Lifeby Javier Sethness

    AK Press 2012; US$ 8.99

    A cogent and theoretical meditation on the looming climate catastrophe. more...

  • The 2030 Spikeby Colin Mason

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 49.95

    The clock is relentlessly ticking! Our world teeters on a knife-edge between a peaceful and prosperous future for all, and a dark winter of death and destruction that threatens to smother the light of civilization. Within 30 years, in the 2030 decade, six powerful 'drivers' will converge with unprecedented force in a statistical spike that could tear... more...

  • The Hockey Stick and the Climate Warsby Michael Mann

    Columbia University Press 2012; US$ 27.99

    In its 2001 report on global climate, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of the United Nations prominently featured the ?Hockey Stick,? a chart showing global temperature data over the past one thousand years. The Hockey Stick demonstrated that temperature had risen with the increase in industrialization and use of fossil fuels. The inescapable... more...

  • Late Quaternary Climate Change and Human Adaptation in Arid Chinaby D.B. Madsen; F. Chen; X. Gao

    Elsevier Science 2011; US$ 195.00

    Due to political pressures, prior to the 1990s little was known about the nature of human foraging adaptations in the deserts, grasslands, and mountains of north western China during the last glacial period. Even less was known about the transition to agriculture that followed. Now open to foreign visitation, there is now an increasing understanding... more...

  • Climate Changeby Mojib Latif

    Haus Publishing 2011; US$ 7.95

    There is no doubt: climate change is happening and mankind is increasingly influencing the climate. more...