Climate Change

We've become used to thinking of plants as things for us to use: as food, tools, resources, or just as an attractive background to our own lives. ...

In his newest book, Robert G. Jones uses applied psychology to argue that unique human adaptive strategies can be leveraged to enable sustainable d...

Answering the key question of whether there is an obligation for States to define and enact sound climate policies in order to avoid the impacts of...

As plants see it, humans are not the masters of the Earth but only one of its most unpleasant and irksome residents. They have been on the planet f...

Blom’s hypothesis is forceful, and has the potential to be both frightening and, if you hold it up to the light at just the right angle, a little o...

This is a story of hope in the face of widespread consternation over the global climate crisis. For many people concerned about global warming, the...

This book aims to provide a better understanding of how human cultures interact with climate change over an extended period of time. It is an analy...

'One of the most important books I've read this year. How Are We Going To Explain This? is a crystal clear treatise on where we are, and what we ne...

Think you've waited too long to do something about climate change? Think again. Am I Too Old to Save the Planet? A Boomer's Guide to Climate Action...

Hailed in the Foreign Service Journal as “a landmark book that should command the attention of every serious student of American diplomacy, interna...

This title is part of American Studies Now and available as an e-book first. Visit ucpress.edu/go/americanstudiesnow to learn more. From the 1960s ...

This title is part of American Studies Now and available as an e-book first. Visit ucpress.edu/go/americanstudiesnow to learn more. From the 1960s ...

Unlike many titles on environmental issues that portend a dark future, Environmental Success Stories delves into the most daunting ecological and e...

In the decades since Geoffrey Heal began his field-defining work in environmental economics, one central question has animated his research: "Can w...

Unlike many titles on environmental issues that portend a dark future, Environmental Success Stories delves into the most daunting ecological and e...

Climate change threatens the economy of the United States in myriad ways, including increased flooding and storm damage, altered crop yields, lost ...

Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our times, yet also seemingly intractable. This book offers novel insights on this contemporar...

One major consequence of climate change is abrupt, dramatic changes in regional biodiversity. Even if the most optimistic scenarios for mitigating ...

Donald R. Prothero's science books combine leading research with first-person narratives of discovery, injecting warmth and familiarity into a prof...

With glaciers melting, oceans growing more acidic, species dying out, and catastrophic events like Hurricane Katrina ever more probable, strong ste...

Global climate change poses an unprecedented challenge for governments across the world. Small wonder that many experts question whether democracie...

Global climate change poses an unprecedented challenge for governments across the world. Small wonder that many experts question whether democracie...

Jairus Victor Grove contends that we live in a world made by war. In Savage Ecology he offers an ecological theory of geopolitics that argues that ...

In this cutting-edge study of Tolkien’s most critically neglected maps, Anahit Behrooz examines how cartography has traditionally been bound up in ...

'Essential brain food' Condé Nast Traveler 'As much a manifesto as a guide' Los Angeles Times 'Read this book and save the planet' Soho House Notes...

In the Shadow of the Seawall journeys to the low-lying lands of Guyana and the Maldives to grapple with the existential dilemma of seawalls alongsi...

What is required to renew and articulate public spaces? The need for, and demands of, public spaces are highly specific to the local spatial and so...

Trees have played countless roles in human history - by turns hopeful symbols of freedom, pioneering space travellers, keepers of ancient history a...

If you had a trillion dollars and a year to spend it for the good of the world and the advancement of science, what would you do? It's an unimagina...

An unexpected story of climate change initiatives that threaten a complex waterscapePerilously close to sea level and vulnerable to floods, erosion...

Since the HMS Challenger expedition of 1872–1876, our vision of the ocean has changed completely. We now understand that it plays a key role in bio...

How can religion help to understand and contend with the challenges of climate change? Understanding Climate Change through Religious Lifeworld, e...

How can religion help to understand and contend with the challenges of climate change? Understanding Climate Change through Religious Lifeworld, e...

The rise in sea level is a visible and remorseless indicator of global warming, the consequences of which can be experienced worldwide – in contras...

Nearly seven billion people are collectively such a potent force that their influence on the global environment has begun to rival that of Mother N...

This is the untold story of the remarkable scientist who established the carbon dioxide theory of climate change. Guy Stewart Callendar discovered ...

The polar bears' frozen planet is melting and they need our help. They come to Warmland to explain what's really going wrong. Luckily they find a g...

Pandemics, massive earthquakes, war, and other catastrophes inspire immediate action because their casualties and destruction are immediately visib...

A book of two halves, Decarbonomics first sets the scene of current global economics, outlining the effect of the pandemic, the trade war between t...

A hugely compelling, dark, offbeat adventure from the bestselling author of ROTHERWEIRD.'A deeply strange but also deeply compelling world' Blue Bo...