Presents a concise overview of the key international organisations that are concerned with environmental issues. This work examines the history, structure and policies of key international bodies. It is a useful reading for students of environmental politics and international or…
The debate about the existence of climate change seems finally at an end. We now have to decide what to do about it. Here, James Garvey argues that the ultimate rationale for action on climate change cannot be simply economic, political, scientific or social, though no doubt our…
Archer's Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast 2nd Edition, is the first real text to present the science and policy surrounding climate change at the right level. Accompanying videos, simulations and instructional support makes it easier to build a syllabus to improve and …
Archer's Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast 2nd Edition, is the first real text to present the science and policy surrounding climate change at the right level. Accompanying videos, simulations and instructional support makes it easier to build a syllabus to improve and …
Discusses the carbon footprint--the carbon emissions used to manufacture and transport--everyday items, including paper bags and imported produce, and provides information to help build carbon considerations into everyday purchases.
From one of America's foremost experts on weather and climate change and a senior research scientist with Climate Central, comes this work, a book that predicts what different parts of the world will look like in the year 2050 if current levels of carbon emissions are maintained.
A paleoclimatologist makes predictions about how environmental choices in the twenty-first century will affect life on the planet throughout the distant future, drawing on geological history to argue that global cooling poses a more significant threat
Af forlagets beskrivelse: Global warming. Many of us believe that it is somebody else's problem, that it will affect other people and that other people will come up with the solution. This is not true. 'Global' warming is a global problem: it will affect every single one of us a…
Bogen giver overblik over klimaforandringer verden over (2006) og undersøger løsningsmulighederne og forklarer, hvorfor handel med CO2-kvoter og udbygning af atomkraft ikke er vejen, men at nedskæringer i energiforbruget og effektivisering af energiudnyttelsen må til.
