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Adapting Cities to Climate Change
Jane Bicknell,
David Dodman,
David Satterthwaite
Brings together a wide-ranging and detailed body of information identifying and assessing risk, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in urban centres in low and middle-income countries.
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The Atlas of Water
Maggie Black,
Jannet King
The new edition of this crucial and timely atlas shows water distribution worldwide, and reflects the latest thinking and emerging issues.
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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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The Biofuel Delusion
Mario Giampietro,
Kozo Mayumi
In this definitive exposé, Mario Giampietro and Kozo Mayumi present a theoretical framework and exhaustive evidence for the case against large scale biofuel production from agricultural crops.
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Cities and Climate Change
UN-HABITAT
Shows how cities can improve the way they operate in order to respond to climate change.
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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 Energy Insecurity
Felix Dodds,
Andrew Higham,
Richard Sherman
This book offers the most comprehensive international assessment of the challenges and solutions for tackling the global insecurity arising from climate change and energy provision and use.
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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 Denial
Haydn Washington,
John Cook
This book shows how we can break through denial, accept reality, and thus solve the climate crisis.
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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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Climate Change
Helen Cleugh,
Mark Stafford Smith,
Michael Battaglia,
Paul Graham
The latest scientific knowledge brought together by CSIRO on a series of climate change topics.
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Climate Change
A. Barrie Pittock
Leading climate researcher Barrie Pittock revisits the effects that global warming is having on our planet.
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The Climate Solutions Consensus
National Council for Science and the Environment
Represents a groundbreaking collaboration on the solutions to climate change by leading US scientists.
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The Cloud Book
Richard Hamblyn
A fascinating and definitive guide to understanding and identifying every cloud type.
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The Complete Book of Australian Weather
Richard Whitaker
Everything you ever wanted to know about Australia's extraordinarily diverse weather, from cyclones in the sweltering tropics to the snow of the alpine regions.
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Connectivity Conservation Management
Graeme L Worboys,
Wendy L Francis,
Michael Lockwood
First groundbreaking guide to connectivity conservation management at local, regional and continental scales.
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Coral Reefs and Climate Change
Craig Reid,
Justin Marshall,
Dave Logan,
Diana Kleine
Focuses on coral reefs, the astonishing abundance of life within them and the impacts of climate change on this beautiful environment.
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Debating Climate Change
Elizabeth L Malone
This original research and insightful use of communication analysis will help advance understanding and negotiation on climate change throughout the pivotal times to come.
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Drought
Justin Sheffield,
Eric F Wood
Provides a review of the historical occurrence of global drought and assesses the likely potential changes over the current century under climate change.
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Dry Times
Mark Stafford Smith,
Julian Cribb
Deserts can teach us new ways to live, manage scarce resources, cope with a harsh climate, isolation and a lack of water and energy.
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The Ecological World View
Charles Krebs
Examines how the natural world works and how humans interact with the planet’s natural ecosystems.
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Ecopolis
Paul F Downton
A book about cities, ecology and climate change written by one of Australia’s leading advocates and pioneers of sustainable architecture.
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ECOS Issue 141
Reviews the world's largest water resources audit of the Murray-Darling Basin, and more.
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ECOS Issue 143
Reviews the decline of environmental monitoring capacity in Australia, the Indigenous Environment Foundation and more.
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ECOS Issue 147
Examines the options for global drawdown of CO2, how dingoes protect native mammals, and more.
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ECOS Issue 150
Reviews 35 years of environmental research reporting, how IT technology is being 'greened', the burgeoning international market for environmental occupations, and more.
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ECOS Issue 151
The rise of youth coalitions, reports on the social justice imperative for climate action, the demise of Fraser Island's dingoes…
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ECOS Issue 152
ECOS 152: REDD's green light to cut deforestation, the rise of urban food farming, and much, much more…
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ECOS Issue 153
Nanosafety, shifting from consumerism to sustainability, biodiversity and climate change and much more.
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ECOS Issue 154
Renewables update, bushfires and biodiversity, climate adaptation, rice and water scarcity...
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ECOS Issue 155
Environmental education, climate intervention, Noosa biosphere, and much more.
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ECOS Issue 156
Sharks in decline, peak fertiliser, sustainable supermarkets...
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ECOS Issue 157
Forest products compliance, marine debris and electric cars...
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ECOS Issue 158
Biofuel from algae, forests and climate change, restorative sandalwood...
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ECOS Issue 159
ECOS 159: Bush blitz, island on the edge and build it back green...
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ECOS Issue 160
ECOS 160: Carbon farming, plants and carbon dioxide, native animals as pets...
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ECOS Issue 161
Ecos 161: Smart electricity grids, energy-water-carbon connections and greenroofs...
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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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Fire Climatology
Tom Swetham,
Scott Anderson
This issue of the International Journal of Wildland Fire highlights significant work presented at a session on fire climatology at the 3rd International Fire Ecology and Management Congress in San Diego, USA, in 2006.
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Gift Vouchers
Are you looking for a book or subscription to give as a present, but aren’t sure what to choose?
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The Health Practitioner's Guide to Climate Change
Jenny Griffiths,
Mala Rao,
Fiona Adshead,
Allison Thorpe
There are enormous health benefits from tackling climate change. This is the first book to set out what health practitioners can do to prevent the worst impacts of climate change.
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How to Live a Low-Carbon Life
Chris Goodall
Provides the first comprehensive, one-stop reference guide to calculating your CO2 emissions and reducing them.
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An Introduction to Climate Change Economics and Policy
Felix R. FitzRoy,
Elissaios Papyrakis
This highly accessible book assumes no prior knowledge and cuts through the confusion to explain the key economic and policy issues related to climate change in simple language and with only a few statistics.
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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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Lives Per Gallon
Terry Tamminen
An unblinking assessment of the true price of petroleum and a prescription for change.
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Managing Climate Change
Imogen Jubb,
Paul Holper,
Wenju Cai
Provides an important snapshot of the issues presented at the Greenhouse 2009 conference.
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Measuring Impacts of Climate Change on Plants
David S. Ellsworth,
David T. Tissue
This Special Issue of Functional Plant Biology contains papers arising from presentations made at the EcoFIZZ 2007 meeting, held at the University of Western Sydney – Hawkesbury in Richmond, New South Wales, Australia in September 2007.
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Methane and Climate Change
Dave Reay,
Pete Smith,
Andre Reay
Comprehensive overview of sources of methane and how these to control it to limit future climate change.
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Natural Capitalism
Paul Hawken,
Amory B Lovins ,
L Hunter Lovins
10th-anniversary edition features a new Introduction by Amory B Lovins and Paul Hawken.
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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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The Rising Sea
Orrin H Pilkey,
Rob Young
The authoritative book on sea level rise and its coastal consequences.
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The State of the World Atlas
Dan Smith
Over 50 full-colour world maps and graphics break down hardcore statistics to provide a compelling analysis of all the political, social, economic and ecological nightmares that keep us awake at night.
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Straight Up
Joseph J. Romm
How the media is missing the story of the century.
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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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Ten Commitments
David Lindenmayer,
Stephen Dovers,
Molly Harriss Olson,
Steve Morton
Leading environmental thinkers speak on environmental issues facing Australia.
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Urban Microclimate
Evyatar Erell,
David Pearlmutter,
Terry Williamson
Bridges the gap between climatology research and applied urban design.
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Wildlife, Fire and Future Climate
Brendan Mackey,
David Lindenmayer,
Malcolm Gill,
Michael McCarthy,
Janette Lindesay
Presents a model landscape-wide case study of refugia and future climate in the tall, wet forests of the Central Highlands of Victoria.
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