Climate change is at the forefront of ideas about public policy, the economy and labour issues. However, the gendered dimensions of climate change and the public policy issues associated with it in wealthy nations are much less understood. This book covers a wide range of issues…
Climate change, vulnerability and migration
Climate change, vulnerability and migration
"This book highlights how climate change has affected migration in the Indian subcontinent. Drawing on field research, it argues that extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, cyclones, cloudbursts as well as sea-level rise, desertification and declining crop productivity…
Climate change, vulnerability and migration
"This book highlights how climate change has affected migration in the Indian subcontinent. Drawing on field research, it argues that extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, cyclones, cloudbursts as well as sea-level rise, desertification and declining crop productivity…
"En contra de todas las probabilidades y retos que ha implicado para América Latina el cambio climático y sus vínculos con el nuevo orden global en el que solo cumplimos el papel de espacios de extracción --incluso de conocimientos-- las mujeres indígenas demuestran cada día que…
La Conferencia sobre Cambio Climático (COP 20): las perspectivas y los temas críticos para el Perú
by Conference of the Parties (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), Lima, Peru), Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú., Instituto de Estudios Internacionales, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental
We inhabit a planet in peril. Our once temperate world is locked on course to become a hothouse entirely of our own making.
“Hothouse Earth: an Inhabitant's Guide provides a post-COP26 perspective on the climate emergency, acknowledging that it is now practically impossible to keep this side of the 1.5°C dangerous climate change guardrail. The upshot is that we can no longer dodge the arrival of a di…
There continues to be a vigorous public debate in our society about the status of climate science. Much of the skepticism voiced in this debate suffers from a lack of understanding of how the science works -- in particular the complex interdisciplinary scientific modeling activi…
There continues to be a vigorous public debate in our society about the status of climate science. Much of the skepticism voiced in this debate suffers from a lack of understanding of how the science works - in particular the complex interdisciplinary scientific modeling activit…
There continues to be a vigorous public debate in our society about the status of climate science. Much of the skepticism voiced in this debate suffers from a lack of understanding of how the science works - in particular the complex interdisciplinary scientific modeling activit…