Climate Change

In line with COP21 agreements, state-led climate change mitigation and adaptation actions are being undertaken to transition to carbon-neutral, gre...

In recent years the concept of the resource nexus has been both hotly debated and widely adopted in research and policy circles. It is a powerful n...

The adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the UN General Assembly in 2015 represents the latest attempt by the international comm...

Many countries are increasingly threatened by major landslide disasters and fatalities due to extreme weather events which have major implications ...

With an emphasis on photographic works that offer new perspectives on the history of American social documentary, this book considers a history of ...

This book explores the social implications and challenges of low-carbon development. The argument of the book is that a broad understanding of low-...

This book explores the development of climate change discourses in Russia. It contributes to the study of climate change as a cultural idea by deve...

Energy security is known for its slippery nature and subsequent broad range of definitions. Instead of another attempt to grasp its essence, this b...

This book focuses on the challenges of living with climate disasters, in addition to the existing gender inequalities that prevail and define socia...

With a specific focus on the United States and the United Kingdom, Carbon Inequality studies the role of the richest people in contributing to clim...

Since the 1990s beliefs, ideas or knowledge as well as processes of communicative interactions such as persuasion, argumentation and learning have ...

This edited volume looks at whether it is possible to be more transparent about uncertainty in scientific evidence without undermining public under...

In recent years the concept of the resource nexus has been both hotly debated and widely adopted in research and policy circles. It is a powerful n...

In the mid-2000s it seemed that the global carbon market would take off and spark the worldwide transition to a profitable low carbon economy. A de...

There is growing interest in analysing the role and effectiveness of the local scale in responding to the global challenge of climate change. Howev...

Around the world, a growing number of businesses are taking steps to reduce their climate impact by managing their greenhouse gas emissions. At the...

We urgently need to transform to a low carbon society, yet our progress is painfully slow, in part because there is widespread public concern that ...

Very few studies have been conducted to explore the vulnerability of women in the context of climate change. This book addresses this absence by in...

This book provides an evaluation of the science and policy debates on climate change and offers a reframing of the challenges they pose, as underst...

Heat islands are urban and suburban areas that are significantly warmer than their surroundings. Traditional, highly absorptive construction materi...

Assessing the vulnerability of human populations to global environmental change, particularly climate change, is now the main imperative of researc...

Drought is one of the likely consequences of climate change in many regions of the world. Together with an increased demand for water resources to ...

A revealing exploration of how prescient nineteenth-century artists, writers, and scientists began to sound the alarm on climate crisis   Against a...

Energy is central to the fabric of society. This book revisits the classic notions of energy impacts by examining the social effects of resource ex...

Drawing from decades of research, Genes, Climate, and Consumption Culture: Connecting the Dots demonstrates how climate dictates culture and consum...

This book evaluates the global response to climate change from a cosmopolitan justice perspective. Going above and beyond existing studies, Dietzel...

Societies develop engineered systems to address or mediate climate-related problems, such as drought, sea-level rise or wildfire control; the media...

The first in-depth exploration of Shakespeare's representations of climate and the skyWhile ecocritical approaches to literary texts receive more a...

This book demonstrates how the largely neglected and multifaceted concept of distance can be used as a primary lens to expand and enrich our unders...

This volume sheds light on the argumentative role of metaphor in climate change discourse, unpacking the ways in which stakeholders use specific me...

Conventional tillage and burning crop residues has degraded the soil resource base and intensified soil degradation with concomitant decrease in cr...

This book introduces an emerging area of research exploring the influence of extreme weather events on school systems. Chapters explore a range of ...

This book analyzes how major events such as the recent pandemic crisis, wars around the world and climate change, have affected agricultural produc...

In May 2019, the United Nations released the Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services which warned that human activities wil...

In May 2019, the United Nations released the Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services which warned that human activities wil...

This book provides an in-depth overview of graphic and visual communication styles for conveying climate change and climate action within the lands...

This book spells out a new framework for humanitarian aid in the long emergency of climate change. Looking ahead to the massive needs of the late 2...

This book assesses the extent to which two specialized UN agencies the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in London and the International C...