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Chapter 04, Urban Climates and Global Climate Change

by Ann Henderson-Sellers

Urbanization is an agent of change at local, regional, and global-scales. The conversion of a landscape to urban land cover causes large changes to the local and regional energy, carbon, and water balances;...


From the Ground Up: Community Gardens in New York City and the Politics of Spatial Transformation

by Efrat Eizenberg

Some 650 community gardens dot the city of New York. These gardens are attended by some of the least advantaged residents of the city. Urban residents use these spaces for horticulture, recreation, social gatherings,...


The Ashgate Research Companion to Critical Geopolitics

by Klaus Dodds & Merje Kuus

Bringing together leading researchers associated with the different forms of critical geopolitics, this volume produces an overview of its achievements, limitations, and areas of new and potential future development....


Drought and the Human Story: Braving the Bull of Heaven

by R.L. Heathcote

This study of the human conceptualization of drought in a global setting examines the historical record from early human society through to present day concerns to explore how and why attitudes to drought have...


Earth Is Our Business: Changing the Rules of the Game

by Polly Higgins

Advocating a new form of leadership that places the health and well-being of people and the planet first, this book proposes a new Earth law, a framework for sustainable development and international environmental...


Advances in Agronomy

by Donald L. Sparks

Advances in Agronomy continues to be recognized as a leading reference and a first-rate source for the latest research in agronomy. As always, the subjects covered are varied and exemplary of the myriad of subject...


Cracking the AP Environmental Science Exam, 2013 Edition

by Princeton Review

If you need to know it, it’s in this book! The 2013 ebook edition of Cracking the AP Environmental Science Exam has been optimized for on-screen viewing with cross-linked questions, answers, and explanations....


Environment and Climate Change in Asia: Ecological Footprints and Green Prospects

by Victor R. Savage

This collection of essays on environment and climate change within Asia is written by faculty members to mark the celebration of the 10th Anniversary (2001–2011) of the National University of Singapore’s...


Advances in Agronomy

by Donald L. Sparks

Advances in Agronomy continues to be recognized as a leading reference and a first-rate source for the latest research in agronomy. As always, the subjects covered are varied and exemplary of the myriad of subject...


Ostracoda as Proxies for Quaternary Climate Change

by David Horne, Jonathan Holmes & Finn Viehberg

Ostracod crustaceans, common microfossils in marine and freshwater sedimentary records, supply evidence of past climatic conditions via indicator species, transfer function and mutual climatic range approaches...


Handbook of Hydrothermal Technology

by K. Byrappa & Masahiro Yoshimura

Quartz, zeolites, gemstones, perovskite type oxides, ferrite, carbon allotropes, complex coordinated compounds and many more -- all products now being produced using hydrothermal technology. Handbook of Hydrothermal...


Sustainability and Short-term Policies: Improving Governance in Spatial Policy Interventions

by Stefan Sjöblom & Andersson

There has been a profound change within the sphere of government and societal regulation in recent years. Traditional hierarchical government has been challenged by new governance instruments relying on negotiations...


Energy Access, Poverty, and Development: The Governance of Small-Scale Renewable Energy in Developing Asia

by Benjamin K. Sovacool & Martina Drupady

This book showcases how small-scale renewable energy technologies such as solar panels, cookstoves, biogas digesters, microhydro units, and wind turbines are helping Asia respond to a daunting set of energy...


Environmental Hazards: Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster

by Keith Smith

The much expanded sixth edition of Environmental Hazards provides a fully up-to-date overview of all the extreme events that threaten people and what they value in the 21st century. It integrates cutting-edge...


An Environmental History of the Middle Ages: The Crucible of Nature

by John Aberth

The Middle Ages was a critical and formative time for Western approaches to our natural surroundings.?An Environmental History of the Middle Ages is a unique and unprecedented cultural survey of attitudes towards...


The New Environmentalism?: Civil Society and Corruption in the Enlarged EU

by Torsello

Comparative in approach, The New Environmentalism? provides new insights into the emergence of strong civic movements at local and trans-local levels, in resistance to citizens' sense of increasing alienation...


Mediating Climate Change

by Doyle

Mediating Climate Change explores how practices of mediation and visualisation shape how we think about, address and act upon climate change. Through historical and contemporary case studies drawn from science,...


Advances in Ecological Research: Global Change in Multispecies Systems: Part II

by Guy Woodward, Ute Jacob & Eoin O'Gorman

Advances in Ecological Research is one of the most successful series in the highly competitive field of ecology. Each volume publishes topical and important reviews, interpreting ecology as widely as in the...


ADAPTIVE COLLABORATIVE APPROACHES IN NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

by Hemant R. Ojha, Andy Hall & Rasheed Sulaiman V

The purpose of this book is to showcase a range of approaches that consider learning and collaboration as central processes in agriculture and natural resources governance and management. These include four...


EXERGY: Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development

by Ibrahim Dincer & Marc A. Rosen

This book deals with exergy and its applications to various energy systems and applications as a potential tool for design, analysis and optimization, and its role in minimizing and/or eliminating environmental...