Climate Change

Climate change is perhaps among the most serious challenges that humankind has ever faced and perhaps the greatest market failure the world has eve...

The ancient Greeks called it Gaia; the Romans Terra. We know it simply as Earth, the planet we call home. And what a planet it is.Formed around 4.6...

The first chapter in this fourth volume of Climate, Energy, and Environment: Issues, Analyses, and Developments presents current topical research...

Global climate change is one of the nation''''s most significant long-term policy challenges. Human activities are producing increasingly large qua...

Carbon capture and sequestration (or storage) - known as CCS - is attracting interest as a measure for mitigating global climate change, because po...

The impact of weather and climate extremes can be severe and wide-ranging although, in some cases, the impact can also be beneficial. Weather and c...

The coming global climate changes associated with the increase of atmospheric greenhouse effect, may disturb the natural carbon cycle in the biosph...

This first volume of Climate, Energy, and Environment: Issues, Analyses, and Developments presents current topical research in the study of the c...

Changes in climate patterns and their impact on the physical environment can create profound effects on populations in parts of the world and prese...

This book presents a survey of the current state of knowledge of the potential impacts of climate change and variability on aeroallergens like poll...

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), aviation currently accounts for about 2 percent of human-generated global carbon...

In this book the authors present current research in the study of the production, management practices and impact of climate change on crop yields ...

This book is a collection of current research work on the economic and social impacts of, and policy responses to, global change mainly in the sout...

This book reports on abrupt climate change which is defined as a large scale change in the climate system that takes place over a few decades or le...

In this book, the authors discuss new developments in global warming research. Topics discussed in this compilation include the impact of climate c...

Global climate change is one of the nation''''s most significant long-term policy challenges. Human activities are producing increasingly large qua...

This book covers many aspects of global climate change and flooding within the Caribbean region and examines the impacts of these on the agricultur...

The federal government has funded work to address global climate change for more than four decades. An initial focus on science has expanded to enc...

Climate change is having a variety of impacts on natural resources in the United States, ranging from more severe drought to increased flooding, an...