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The Atlas of Climate Change
Kirstin Dow,
Thomas E. Downing
The updated third edition of this of this highly acclaimed atlas on climate change.
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Australia's Unintended Cities
Richard Tomlinson
Explores housing and housing-related urban outcomes that are unintended consequences of other policies in Australia.
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Australia's Water Resources
John Pigram
This book explores the recent profound reorientation of attitudes and relationships to water in Australia.
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Avian Influenza
Ian Scoones
Explores how virus genetics, ecology and epidemiology intersect with economic, political and policy processes.
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Beyond Drought
Linda Courtenay Botterill,
Melanie Fisher
Challenges the traditional view of drought as a natural disaster, advocating a policy approach based on risk management.
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Burning Issues
Mark Adams,
Peter Attiwill
The role of fire in Australia's ecosystems, and how to manage fire both for safety and for diversity.
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Carbon Markets or Climate Finance
Axel Michaelowa
Written by climate finance experts this book provides background, firsthand insights, case studies and analysis into the complex subject area of climate finance.
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Cents and Sustainability
Michael H Smith,
Karlson 'Charlie' Hargroves,
Cheryl Desha
Investigates new evidence and research to develop a deeper understanding of how 'forceful sustainable growth' is possible.
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Climate Change and Adaptation
Neil Leary,
James Adejuwon,
Vicente Barros,
Ian Burton,
Jyoti Kulkarni,
Rodel Lasco
An in-depth investigation of what is at stake trying to achieve climate adaptation in developing countries.
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Climate Change and Vulnerability
Neil Leary,
Cecilia Conde,
Jyoti Kulkarni,
Anthony Nyong ,
Juan Pulhin
Provides researchers with new examples of applications of vulnerability assessment methods.
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Climate Change as a Security Risk
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber,
German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU)
Climate change has the potential to jeopardise national security or to unite the international community.
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Climate Change Mitigation and Agriculture
Eva Wollenberg,
Maja-Liisa Tapio-Bistrom,
Maryanne Grieg-Gran,
Alison Nihart
This book reviews the state of agricultural climate change mitigation globally, with a focus on smallholder farmers.
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Climate Change Science and Policy
Stephen Schneider,
Armin Rosencranz,
Michael Mastrandrea,
Kristin Kuntz-Duriseti
This is the most comprehensive and current reference resource on climate change available today.
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Community Bushfire Safety
John Handmer,
Katharine Haynes
The key social, political and human issues related to Australia’s on-going bushfire scenario.
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Corporation 2020
Pavan Sukhdev
A sweeping and original plan for reforming business-as-usual to create a new economy of permanence.
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The Earthscan Reader on Risk
Ragnar E. Löfstedt,
Åsa Boholm
The essential literature necessary for a full understanding of risk theory and practice on any issue and in any context.
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Ecological Economics
Herman Daly,
Joshua Farley
Humans and ecological systems are inextricably bound together in complex and long-misunderstood ways.
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Ecological Public Health
Geof Rayner,
Tim Lang
This book argues that public health thinking needs an overhaul, a return to and modernisation around ecological principles.
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Epidemics
Melissa Leach,
Sarah Dry
The most vulnerable in society suffer more from epidemics but benefit less from globallly focussed responses.
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Factor Five
Ernst von Weizsäcker,
Karlson Hargroves,
Michael Smith,
Cheryl Desha,
Peter Stasinopoulos
Simply the most important work on the future of innovation, business, economics and policy and is top drawer reading for leaders across all sectors.
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Flood Country
Emily O'Gorman
Explores the different ways in which floods have been understood and managed in the inland since Australia’s colonisation.
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Food Systems Failure
Christopher Rosin,
Paul Stock,
Hugh Campbell
A critical assessment of the contemporary global food system in light of the heightening food crisis.
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Food, Globalization and Sustainability
Peter Oosterveer,
David A. Sonnenfeld
An overview of the principal conceptual frameworks developed for understanding changes in global food production and consumption.
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The Future Control of Food
Geoff Tansey,
Tasmin Rajotte
The first wide-ranging guide to the key issues of intellectual property and ownership, genetics, biodiversity and food security.
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Issues of the Day
Ian W H Parry ,
Felicia Day
An easy way to learn about a diverse range of policy issues affecting the environment, energy, transportation and public health.
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Land Use Intensification
Saul Cunningham,
Andrew Young,
David Lindenmayer
Can science suggest new approaches to reducing the conflict between productive land use and biodiversity conservation?
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Landscape Logic
Allan Curtis,
Anthony Jakeman,
James McKee,
Ted Lefroy
Case studies examine the effectiveness of environmental programs to improve our waterways, soils and natural vegetation.
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Living with Fire
Tom Griffiths,
Christine Hansen
This deeply moving book examines how one community rebuilt and redefined itself following the Black Saturday fires.
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Managing Arsenic in the Environment
Ravi Naidu,
Euan Smith,
Gary Owens,
Prosun Bhattacharya,
Peter Nadebaum
An authorative overview of arsenic contamination, its impacts and the latest risk management and remediation strategies.
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Managing Water for Australia
Karen Hussey,
Stephen Dovers
Addresses major challenges in implementing required reforms in Australian water policy and management.
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A New Blueprint for a Green Economy
Edward B Barbier,
Anil Markandya
The book highlights the new policies and approaches needed for economic management of today's environmental concerns.
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Post-Disaster Reconstruction
Matthew Clarke,
Ismet Fanany,
Sue Kenny
The first major book that analyses the different perspectives and experiences of the enormous post-tsunami reconstruction effort.
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Resilience and Transformation
Steven Cork
Explores what factors contribute to Australia's resilience, what trends are apparent, and what actions are required to better prepare us.
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Resilience Practice
Brian Walker,
David Salt
Applies resilience thinking to real-world situations and explores how systems can be managed to promote and sustain resilience.
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The Rice Crisis
David Dawe
Examines how government policies caused and responded to soaring world prices in the particular case of rice.
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The Skeptical Economist
Jonathan Aldred
Challenges us all to examine the assumptions behind the economics of our current way of life.
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Social Mix and the City
Kathy Arthurson
Critically appraises how 'social mix' has been constructed historically in urban planning and housing policy.
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The State of the World Atlas
Dan Smith
Over 50 full-colour world maps and graphics break down the statistics to provide a compelling analysis of our main social, economic and ecological issues.
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Sudden and Disruptive Climate Change
Michael C MacCracken,
Frances Moore ,
John C Topping Jr
Explores the possibility of surprising and nonlinear responses likely to occur as warming exceeds certain thresholds.
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The Tolerability of Risk
Frédéric Bouder,
David Slavin,
Ragnar E. Löfstedt
From nuclear power to environmental pollution, climate change and drug testing, the Tolerability of Risk framework may offer a workable, pragmatic solution for balancing risks against the costs involved in controlling them.
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Uncertainty and Risk
Gabriele Bammer,
Michael Smithson
In this thorough and wide-ranging volume, theoretical perspectives are drawn from art history, complexity science, economics, futures, history, law, philosophy, physics, psychology, statistics and theology.
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Water Ethics
Peter G Brown,
Jeremy J. Schmidt
An indispensable guide to humanity's relationship with water and the world.
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Water Policy in Australia
Lin Crase
Presents a comprehensive account of the country’s critical water issues and provides expert perspectives from behavioral and institutional economists, engineers, hydrologists, sociologists, and water law specialists.
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Water Security
The World Economic Forum Water Initiative
Contains compelling commentary from leading decision-makers, past and present.
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Water
Ian Prosser
The latest information from CSIRO, providing a clear picture of the water challenges and prospects facing Australia.
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