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Book SynopsisFirst published in Great Britain by Granta Books, 2015.Trade ReviewOne of The Independent's 6 Best Books in Nature 2015 One of Science Friday's Best Science Books of 2016 One of The Guardian's Best Books of 2015 One of The Guardian's Best Science Books of 2015 One of LinkedIn's Best Business Books of 2015 Shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2016 Longlisted for the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction "A vital book on geoengineering."--Andrew Revkin, Dot Earth, New York Times "Few science books are more important, timely, and beautifully written... [The Planet Remade] is a book that lays out all the facts, with great clarity and at some length, draws a conclusion, but leaves you to make up your mind."--Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing "[I]f you are going to read one book on climate engineering, it should be The Planet Remade... [The book] is as much an exploration of science and engineering as it is of people and attitudes."--Jane C.S. Long, Nature "Oliver Morton produced 2015's most important and insightful book about the environment inThe Planet Remade... Several people who should know better argued this year that humanity needs to adopt a more 'religious' view of climate change. It does not. What it needs is books by Oliver Morton."--Richard Benson, The Independent "Exhilarating."--New Scientist "Ambitious, enthralling."--Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times "Morton offers a calm, rational discussion of deliberate technological interventions to cool the planet's climate system... An important account of cutting-edge research that will fascinate serious readers and demand the attention of policymakers."--Kirkus (Starred Review) "Morton accomplishes the difficult task of explaining high-level scientific concepts in pragmatic terms, with enough history, first-person reporting, anecdotes, and humor that The Planet Remade is as enjoyable to read as it is informative."--Foreword Reviews "Through pages of rigorous scientific groundwork wrapped in elegant prose, Morton provides a guided tour of why we need geoengineering... The Planet Remade is a delightful introduction to the seemingly absurd proposals that could be our fragile world's final hope."--Science News "Morton affords us a fascinating look at the perils and promise of geoengineering on a warming planet."--Wan Lixin, Shanghai Daily "[A] thoughtfully written and meticulously reported volume that explores the nascent and controversial field of deliberate technological interventions in the climate--interventions meant to cool the planet."--Pacific Standardz "Morton ... critically evaluates the ethical and scientific pros and cons of using geoengineering to mitigate global climate change. He uses real and theoretical case studies to support his views of past, current, and potential geoengineering options... A valuable resource for environmental science and environmental policy library collections."--ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction: Two Questions 1 Climate Risks and Responsibilities 5 The Second Fossil-Fuel Century 8 Altering the Earthsystem 22 Deliberate Planets, Imagined Worlds 26 Part One: Energies 1 The Top of the World 35 Discovering the Stratosphere 38 Fallout 43 The Ozone Layer 47 The Veilmakers 54 2 A Planet Called Weather 57 The Worldfalls 62 The Trenberth Diagram and Climate Science 66 Steam Engines and Spaceship Earth 71 3 Pinatubo 83 Volcanoes and Climate 86 Predictions and Surprises 93 4 Dimming the Noontime Sun 100 Rough Magic 107 Promethean Science 112 5 Coming to Think This Way 124 Martians and Moral Equivalents 129 The Day Before Yesterday 135 The Rise of Carbon Dioxide Politics 139 6 Moving the Goalposts 148 From Plan B to Breathing Space 156 Expanding the Boundaries 165 Part Two: Substances 7 Nitrogen 175 The Making of the Population Bomb 184 Defusing the Population Bomb 189 Far from Fixed 195 How to Spot a Geoengineer 201 8 Carbon Past, Carbon Present 209 The Anthropocene 219 The Greening Planet 229 9 Carbon Present, Carbon Future 243 Ocean Anaemia 251 Cultivating One's Garden 259 10 Sulphur and Soggy Mirrors 268 Global Cooling 274 Cloudships 283 Bright Patchwork Planet 288 What the Thunder Didn't Say 298 Part Three: Possibilities 11 The Ends of the World 305 Control and Catastrophe 312 Doom and Denial 317 The Traditions of Titans 323 A Tale of Two Cliques 332 After Such Knowledge 338 12 The Deliberate Planet 344 The Concert 347 Small Effects, and Bad Ones 359 And Straight on 'til Morning 369 Envoi 375 Acknowledgements 379 References, Notes and Further Reading 383 Bibliography 393 Index 415

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Book SynopsisClimate change is one of the most controversial and misunderstood issues of the 21st century. This book provides a clear understanding of the issue by presenting scientific facts to refute falsehoods and misinformationand to confirm the validity of other assertions.Is public understanding of global warming suffering from politically biased news coverage? Is it true that the global scientific community has not reached a consensus on whether humans are causing climate change? This important book addresses these questions and many more about global warming, identifying common claims about climate change and using quantifiable, evidence-based information to examine their veracity.The authors of this work examine 35 specific claims that have been made about global climate change by believers and skeptics. These assertionssome true, some falsewill guide readers to a much deeper understanding of the extent of climate change; whether any climate change that is taking place is human-causTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 The Evidence Regarding Climate Change Q1. What Is Happening to Sea Ice in the Arctic? Q2. What Is Happening to Sea Ice in the Antarctic? Q3. What Is Happening to Glaciers and Ice Sheets? Q4. Do Global Average Surface Air Temperatures Show Warming? Q5. Do Satellites Using "Thermometers in Space" Show a Warming Trend in Earth's Lower Atmosphere? Q6. How Might Global Warming Be Causing Record Cold Winters in Some Places? Q7. How and Why Has the Pace of Global Warming Changed Over Time? Q8. What Do the "Climategate" Hacked E-Mails Show about Climate Science? 2 The Causes of Climate Change Q9. Is Human Activity the Main Driver of Modern Climate Change? Q10. How Does Modern Global Warming Compare to the So-Called Medieval Warm Period? Q11. What Is the "Hockey Stick" and How Accurate a Picture Does It Provide of Global Climate Change? Q12. What Role Does the Sun Play in Global Temperature Rise? Q13. How Has Climate Been Changing on Mars and Other Planets? Q14. Is the Ozone Hole a Factor in Global Warming? Q15. Carbon Dioxide Is a Small Fraction of the Atmosphere, So Why Is It So Important for Climate Change? Q16. Does a Historical Correlation Exist between Changes in Carbon Dioxide Levels and Temperature? Q17. What Does Past Climate Change Tell Us about the Relationship between Carbon Dioxide and Temperature? Q18. Which Produces More Carbon Dioxide: Volcanoes, or Burning Fossil Fuels? 3 The Likely Impacts of Climate Change Q19. How Well Do Computer Models Reproduce Earth's Climate? Q20. Can an Increase in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Cause a Significant Warming of Global Temperatures? Q21. How Will Climate Change Impact Society? Q22. Have the Dangers of Climate Change Been Understated or Overstated by Scientists and the News Media? Q23. Are Carbon Dioxide Emissions Acidifying the Ocean? Q24. How Are Plants and Animals Affected by Rapid Climate Change? Q25. How Is Climate Change Influencing Extreme Weather? 4 Scientific Consensus on Climate Change Q26. What Percentage of Climate Scientists Agree That Humans Are Causing Global Warming? Q27. What Does the Work of Lone Scientific Mavericks Show about the Importance of the Scientific Consensus on Climate Change? Q28. What Motivates Climate Scientists? Q29. In the 1970s, Were Most Climate Scientists Concerned about Global Warming or Global Cooling? 5 Responding to Climate Change Q30. Is It Possible to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions without Damaging the Economy? Q31. What Effect Will Cutting Carbon Emissions Have on the Poor? Q32. What Is China Doing to Address Climate Change? Q33. Can Carbon Dioxide Be Regulated under the Clean Air Act? Q34. Can Individuals Do Anything to Limit Global Warming? Q35. Do Some Republicans Accept That Anthropogenic Climate Change Is Occurring? Postscript: The Paris Agreement Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisWorld Ethics and Climate Change combines the science of climate change with ethical critique to expose its impact, the increasing intensity of dangerous trends, particularly growing global affluence, material consumption and pollution and the intensifying moral dimensions of changes to the environment.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; Part I: The Challenge; 1. Global Climate Change; 2. Justice in a Changing World; Part II: International Justice; 3. International Environmental Justice; 4. International Justice and Climate Change; Part III: Global Justice; 5. Cosmopolitan Ethics and Justice; 6. Affluence, Consumption and Atmospheric Pollution; 7. Cosmopolitan Diplomacy and Climate Policy; 8. The Unavoidability of Global Justice; References, Index.

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Book SynopsisHow can the work of climate justice and climate governance scholars be brought together to effect real change?

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Book SynopsisThis monograph explores the importance of weather and changing skies in early modern England while acknowledging the fact that traditional representations and religious beliefs still fashioned people's relations to meteorological phenomena.

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Book SynopsisCurrently, adaptation policy for climate change prioritises economic and technological dimensions of governance and action. Now, Elaine Kelly brings continental theory into the conversation to explore the ethical dilemmas stemming from emerging global political crises of migration, displacement and communal relocation related to climate change.

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates and discusses the respective issues arising in the current discourse on climate protection from different legal perspectives (including international law, European law and national public and civil law). In particular, it addresses the issue of “climate protection by courts”. It gives an overview of important jurisdictions in the field of climate change litigation, including the US, Canada, Australia, the UK, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Brazil and Germany. The handbook provides answers and ideas both to scholars and practitioners in the field. Furthermore, it is guaranteed to provide an overview of the latest news in cases and progress in the field of climate change litigation.Table of ContentsSummary of Contents INTRODUCTION CLIMATE CHANGE AS A CHALLENGE FOR GLOBAL GOVERNANCE, COURTS AND HUMAN RIGHTS (Voigt) PART 1 FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS A. Liability for climate damages, sustainability and environmental justice (Kloepfer/Neugärtner) B. Climate damages and the ‘Polluter Pays’ Principle (Rehbinder) C. The role of courts in climate protection and the separation of powers (Payandeh) D. Climate change and duties to protect with regard to fundamental rights (Gross) PART 2 PROCEDURAL ISSUES AND CONFLICT OF LAWS E. Arbitration proceedings (Lennarz) F. Conflicts of jurisdiction and the applicable law in domestic courts’ proceedings (Kieninger) PART 3 STATE LIABILITY UNDER INTERNATIONAL AND EUROPEAN LAW G. Environmental liability in international law (Wolfrum) H. The international law and policy implications of climate change litigation: sustainable developments in international investment law and policy related to renewable energy, climate change mitigation and adaptation (Cordonier Segger/Arvan/Byron/Srinivas) I. The Paris Climate Agreement and liability issues (Franzius/Kling) J. Liability of EU Member States under EU law (Purnhagen/Saurer) PART 4 CLIMATE CHANGE LITIGATION – NATIONAL REPORTS K. Climate change litigation in the United States (Farber) L. Climate change litigation in Canada (Jodoin/McGinn) M. Climate change litigation in Brazil (Wedy) N. Climate change litigation in Australia (Bell-James) O. Climate change litigation in the United Kingdom (Ohdedar/McNab) P. Climate change litigation in Italy (Butti) Q. Climate change litigation in France (Epstein/Deckert) R. Climate change litigation in the Netherlands – the Urgenda case and beyond (Van der Veen/De Graaf) S. Climate change litigation in Germany (Weller/Nasse/Nasse) PART 5 LIABILITY FOR CLIMATE DAMAGES – GERMANY AS AN INTERNATIONAL PIONEER? T. Liability for climate damages under the German law of torts (Wagner/Arntz) U. Liability for climate change damages under the German Environmental Liability Act (Nitsch) V. Climate protection and compliance in German corporate law (Habersack/Ehrl) W. Investor-led action for climate and business sustainability (Duve/Hamama) X. Liability for climate damages under the Environmental Damage Act (Kahl/Stürmlinger) Y. The role of non-governmental organizations for climate change litigation (Verheyen/Pabsch) PART 6 CONCLUSIONS LIABILITY FOR CLIMATE DAMAGES – SYNTHESIS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS (Kahl/Weller)

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Book Synopsis‘Vanessa Nakate continues to teach a most critical lesson. She reminds us that while we may all be in the same storm, we are not all in the same boat.’ Greta Thunberg‘An indispensable voice for our future.’ Malala Yousafzai‘A powerful global voice.’ Angelina JolieNo matter your age, location or skin colour, you can be an effective activist.Devastating flooding, deforestation, extinction and starvation. These are the issues that not only threaten in the future, they are a reality. After witnessing some of these issues first-hand, Vanessa Nakate saw how the world’s biggest polluters are asleep at the wheel, ignoring the Global South where the effects of climate injustice are most fiercely felt.Inspired by a shared vision of hope, Vanessa’s commanding political voice demands attention for the biggest issue of our time and, in this rousing manifesto for change, shows how you can join her to protect our planet now and for the future.Vanessa realised the importance of her place in the climate movement after she, the only Black activist in an image with four white Europeans, was cropped out of a press photograph at Davos in 2020. This example illustrates how those who will see the biggest impacts of the climate crisis are repeatedly omitted from the conversation. As she explains, ‘We are on the front line, but we are not on the front page.’Without A Bigger Picture, you’re missing the full story on climate change.Trade ReviewIn this moment of intersecting crises, Vanessa Nakate continues to teach a most critical lesson. She reminds us that while we may all be in the same storm, we are not all in the same boat. -- Greta ThunbergVanessa Nakate is a powerful global voice. A strong spirit who will clearly not give up and only grow in strength. -- Angelina JolieThrough Vanessa Nakate's eyes, A Bigger Picture shows us the threat of climate change to people in East Africa and the relentless courage of one activist fighting to be heard. Vanessa is more than an inspiration – she's an indispensable voice for our future -- Malala YousafzaiVanessa Nakate's message couldn't be more urgent or her voice more desperately needed. At once intimate and sweeping, A Bigger Picture is a must-read for anyone who cares about the future. -- Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky and The Sixth ExtinctionAfrica is suffering today from a crisis it did not cause, and yet African perspectives have been sidelined in the climate conversation. Leading a new generation of activists, Vanessa Nakate is setting that right. Writing with conviction and courage, she is a vital new voice for climate justice. -- Jeremy Williams, author of Climate Change is RacistVanessa's story, her voice and fearless spirit are an inspiration to all of us. This book is a vital reminder that the costs of climate change have been transforming negatively the lives of those who have had the least part in causing the problem. Without racial justice and equality, climate justice can never be a reality. -- Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland and author of Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable FutureThis is a wonderful story, wonderfully told! Vanessa Nakate is a crucial climate leader, reminding us of one of the iron laws of global warming: the less you did to cause it, the sooner and harder you get hit. Thank heaven her voice will echo far and wide, and down through the years. -- Bill McKibben, author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?Enthusiasm, commitment and energy jump out from every page of A Bigger Picture. After presenting the emergency climate problems facing Africa and the rest of the world Vanessa goes on to signpost the reader with solutions – an inspiring read! -- Nancy Birtwhistle, author of Clean & Green and Green Living Made EasyVanessa’s deeply personal and thought provoking account of her experience in the climate movement, specifically in the global south reminds us that at the center of this crisis is our shared humanity. -- Bonnie Wright, actress, activist and author of Go Gently: Actionable Steps to Nurture Yourself and the PlanetVital, urgent, eye-opening. This is one of the most important and empowering books ever written about the climate change emergency. A must-read for all of us, no matter where we’re from. -- Dr Ali Foxon, author of The Green Sketching HandbookDeeply personal and powerful, A Bigger Picture offers a fresh perspective from the frontlines of climate change. -- WorderyThe bold young female voice leading Africa's climate fight. -- African Business

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Book SynopsisAs his health begins to fail, a historian in the year 2084 sets out to document the irreparable damage climate change has wrought on the planet over the course of his life. He interviews scientists, political leaders and ordinary people all around the world who have suffered its catastrophic effects, from devastating floods and mass droughts to war and famine. In a series of short chapters, we learn that much of New York has been abandoned, 50 million Bangladeshis are refugees and half of the Netherlands is under water. This is all fiction. But it is rooted in scientific fact. Written by a professor of geochemistry, James Lawrence Powell, The 2084 Report accurately chronicles the future we will face if nothing is done to address the climate crisis. A vivid portrait of climate change and its tangible impact on our lives, The 2084 Report is a powerful prophecy and urgent call to action.Trade Review'This is a sobering and scary (and fascinating) book-a look at where we're going if we don't quickly get our act together. And it's replete with clues about how we could indeed make the changes that would make this fiction, not prophecy' -- Bill McKibben, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of FALTER: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out'The 2084 Report is probably the most important literary work on climate change - because by dressing such a necessary message in "disaster movie" clothes, Powell ensures a wider audience than a conventional scientific work.' * The Herald Glasgow *

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Book SynopsisFrom Asia to Africa, Oceania to Europe, the Americas and Antarctica, see the world through the eyes of 60 young people who are fighting for their homes and their futures in the face of climate change.The stories in this book are devastating, defiant, inspiring and moving - but, above all, they are full of hope. The climate crisis can feel overwhelming but, as this book shows, for every problem there are young voices raising awareness, creating solutions and demanding that things change. It's not too late to save the world. United we really are unstoppable. Aditya Mukarji (16) stopped 26 million straws from polluting the oceans. Cecilia La Rose (15) filed a lawsuit against the Canadian federal government for contributing to global warming. Delphin Kaze (19) founded a company that produces eco-charcoal from organic waste in Burundi.And more inspiring stories from . . . Htet Myet Min Tun; Tatyana Sin; Iman Dorri; Howey Ou; Theresa Rose Sebastian; Nasreen Sayed; Liyana Yamin; Albrecht Arthur N. Arevalo; Akari Tomita; Karel Lisbeth Miranda Mendoza; Emma-Jane Burian; Anya Sastry; Ricardo Andres Pineda Guzman; Cricket Guest; Lia Harel; Shannon Lisa; Khadija Usher; Brandon Nguyen; Vivianne Roc; Octavia Shay Muñoz-Barton; Payton Mitchell; Ashley Torres; Eyal Weintraub; Daniela Torres Perez; Catarina Lorenzo; Juan José Martín-Bravo; João Henrique Alves Cerqueira; Gilberto Cyril Morishaw; Holly Gillibrand; Stamatis Psaroudakis; Lilith Electra Platt; Anna Taylor; Raina Ivanova; Federica Gasbarro; Laura Lock; Agim Mazreku; Adrian Toth; Kaluki Paul Mutuku; Nche Tala; Sebenele Rodney Carval; Jeremy Raguain; Lesein Mathenge Mutunkei; Toiwiya Hassane; Koku Klutse; Tsiry Nantenaina Randrianavelo; Ruby Sampson; Tafadzwa Chando; Elizabeth Wanjiru Wathuti; Ndèye Marie Aida Ndieguene; Zoe Buckley Lennox; Lourdes Faith Auhura Parehuia; Alexander Whitebrook; Komal Narayan; Kailash Cook; Madeleine Keitilani Elceste Lavemai; Freya May Mimosa Brown; and Carlon Zackhras25p from the sale of physical copies of the book will go to a charity advocating for the protection of children's rights.Trade ReviewEvery activist has a story. Every story has a solution. Every solution can change a life. I am truly inspired by these stories of climate activists from various parts of the world. This is an amazing book. -- Vanessa Nakate, Ugandan climate activistEngaging, fast-paced, inspirational . . . mandatory reading -- Siddharth Singh, author of THE GREAT SMOG OF INDIAIt is impossible not to be moved by these young activists. Everyone will learn something new. Akshat Rathi has done the world a great service in bringing these genuinely diverse voices from across the planet into one place. United We Are Unstoppable is essential reading if you care about the future of life on Earth -- Professor Simon Lewis, University College LondonThe book's stories are powerful and myriad . . . Throughout, there are common threads: conviction, determination, and the inability to sit back as a catastrophe unfolds. * Quartz, The Race to Zero Emissions *Vital . . . The book's essays pull no punches in calling out the crisis for what it is . . . But the book is far more than calls for leadership and coming together. It also shows kids and young adults are already taking action beyond the high proflie strikes and lawsuits * Gizmodo *This collection of inspiring stories from all over the world is the perfect antidote for those dismayed at the political wrangling and lack of courage to confront the existential challenge of our times. This book should be required reading for anyone concerned about climate change. -- Adnan Amin, senior fellow at Harvard University and former head of IRENAWhat a wonderful collection. The world is lucky to have Greta Thunberg - and just as lucky to have this collection of like-minded young people in every corner of the planet, hard at work to make things better. But don't take the message that we should simply leave the climate crisis on the shoulders of high school kids. Take the message that we should follow where they lead! -- Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org and New York Times bestselling authorAn essential collection of essays written by a diverse group of young people from all over the world who are working to protect our one and only home. Get a copy for yourself, and give another copy to a young person in your life! -- Leah Stokes, political scientist at the University of California, Santa BarbaraIt's fun to read about kids doing great things to save the planet' Annan (9 years old) and Sonja (6 years old). 'What they said -- Gernot Wagner, Annan and Sonja's dad, climate economist at New York University and co-author of CLIMATE SHOCKOne of the most distinctive things about the book is showing that individual actions - such as recycling, driving or flying less, or going vegan - are not enough and will not save us. The only way to achieve systemic change and halt the effects of climate change is mass movement; millions of people need to get involved demand change from those in power * Chemistry World *

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Book SynopsisThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is one of the most critical federal agencies. It's also the most criticized-bar none. Those glory days of battling burning rivers and smog-chocked air are behind us, along with appreciation of the agency that made it all possible. Over the past couple of decades, an overall war on science and environmental protections has been steadily gaining ground. The Trump administration is the latest (and most serious) threat.Trade ReviewIf you care about the health of American families and the future of your children, then read this book. It will make you stand up, shout out and take action to defend science and EPA at a time when we are losing the battle against life-threatening pollution. -- Gina McCarthy, former U.S. EPA Administrator (2013-2017)Accessible yet detailed, science-based yet politically-savvy, factual yet gripping, The War on the EPA assembles the government agency's history, the toxic tragedies that prompted its creation, the people who made it work, and, sadly, the people who try to undermine and dismantle this protector of our air, land, and water. It presents a vital account beneath profit and material prosperity. What use are they if our skin breaks out in rashes, our water brings cancer, and our children are born malformed with lower IQs? This book is a timely resource to remedy our situation, more valuable now than ever. -- Joshua Spodek, PhD MBA, host of the Leadership and the Environment podcast and author of "Initiative"

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Book SynopsisAs climate change begins to take a serious toll on the planet--with much more damage yet to come--a solution to our warming problems is hiding in plain sight. We need to commit to de-carbonizing our economy, and do so immediately, but so far we have lacked the courage to really try.Our fears of nuclear energy have grown irrationally large, even as our fears of climate change are irrationally small.In this clear-sighted and compelling book, Joshua Goldstein and Steffan Qvist come bearing good news: a real solution, one that is fast, cheap, and provably works. Based on Sweden's success cutting their carbon emissions in half, Goldstein and Qvist argue for a policy that combines nuclear and renewable energy sources. From 1970-1990, Sweden replaced coal power plants with nuclear ones, and slowly integrated renewable energy alongside it. During that same time period, the country generated more electricity than ever and its economy grew by 50 percent. They have had no nuclear accidents, nor has any of their uranium been stolen by terrorists.Separating facts from doomsday scenarios, Goldstein and Qvist force a real and meaningful dialogue about what the best energy policy is, and the dangers of remaining on our present path. And they offer an answer that really could work--if only we'd give it a try.

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Book Synopsis“This comprehensive book offers a fascinating overview of how those fires are fought, and some conversation-starters for how we might reimagine our relationship with the woods.” —Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet Wildfire season is burning longer and hotter, affecting more and more people, especially in the west. Land on Fire explores the fascinating science behind this phenomenon and the ongoing research to find a solution. This gripping narrative details how years of fire suppression and chronic drought have combined to make the situation so dire. Award-winning nature writer Gary Ferguson brings to life the extraordinary efforts of those responsible for fighting wildfires, and deftly explains how nature reacts in the aftermath of flames. Dramatic photographs reveal the terror and beauty of fire, as well as the staggering effect it has on the landscape.

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Book SynopsisThis volume provides an abundance of valuable information on emerging eco-friendly technology and its potential role in combating climate change via agroforesty. The volume begins by describing the recent understanding of the scenario of climate change and its issues and challenges and provides an in-depth analysis of the potential of agroforestry toward climate change mitigation and adaptation. Chapters address a wide range of techniques and methods for mitigating the negative aspects of climate change through agroforesty, such as vermicomposting, carbon sequestration, horticulture techniques, nutrient sequestration and soil sustainability, conservation of medicinal plant resources, silvipastoral systems, phytoremediation techniques, and more. The book also looks at livelihood security and the role of agroforestry.Key features: Provides updated information and recent developments in the field of climate change and agroforestry Looks at a variety of eco-friendly methods being employed to help mitigate climate change through agroforesty Provides recommendations and suggestions to build harmony between agroforestry and climate change Discusses new insights on the role of agroforestry toward combating climate change as well as maintaining the sustainability of ecosystems Table of Contents1. Agroforestry and Climate Change: Issues, Challenges, and the Way Forward 2. Vermicomposting Practices: Sustainable Strategy for Agriculture and Climate Change 3. Agroforestry with Horticulture: A New Strategy toward a Climate-Resilient Forestry Approach 4. Role of Agroforestry in Carbon Sequestration: An Indian Perspective 5. Conservation Issues, Challenges, and Management of Medicinal Plant Resources: A New Dimension toward Sustainable Natural Resource Management 6. Silvo-Pasture System: A Way Ahead for Sustainable Development in India 7. Agroforestry for Climate Mitigation and Livelihood Security in India 8. Tree-Soil Interaction Studies on Different Species in Arboretum 9. Phytoremediation of Coal Mine Based Wastelands: An Approach in Raniganj Coalfield (RCF) 10. Non-Timber Forest Products: Constraints, Prospects and Management, Implications for Combating Climate Change, and Livelihood Development 11. Mulberry-Based Agroforestry System: An Effective Way of Maintaining Livelihood Security and Climate Change Mitigation

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Book SynopsisNearly half of the public think that climate change is real yet won't act to prevent it. Leo Barasi shows how this climate apathy can be overcome with an approach developed for political campaigns.

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Book SynopsisA beautifully-written, fresh and creative guide to our ecological crisis bringing stories and ideas together from all over the globe.

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Book SynopsisZeno Hintermeier is a scientist working as a travel guide on an Antarctic cruise ship, encouraging the wealthy to marvel at the least explored continent and to open their eyes to its rapid degradation. It is a troubling turn in the life of an idealistic glaciologist. Now in his early sixties, Zeno bewails the loss of his beloved glaciers, the disintegration of his marriage, and the foundering of his increasingly irrelevant career. Troubled in conscience and goaded by the smug complacency of the passengers in his charge, he starts to plan a desperate gesture that will send a wake-up call to an overheating world.The Lamentations of Zeno is an extraordinary evocation of the fragile and majestic wonders to be found at a far corner of the globe, written by a novelist who is a renowned travel writer. Poignant and playful, the novel recalls the experimentation of high-modernist fiction without compromising a limpid sense of place or the pace of its narrative. It is a portrait of a man in extremis, a haunting and at times irreverent tale that approaches the greatest challenge of our age-perhaps of our entire history as a species-from an impassioned human angle.Trade ReviewThe best thing one could say of an author: he enriches us. -- Günter GrassThrilling, nuanced, and chillingly meditative . Ilija Trojanow has written a modern fable tinged with absurd humor, dramatizing the high stakes of our current climate gamble. -- Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World SpinThis is like the stream of consciousness of our planet's unraveling lifeworld, as channeled through its melting ice and a cruise ship naturalist in love with his doomed subject. Quick, dense, jagged, beautiful. -- Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the Mars TrilogyThe Lamentations of Zeno is electric, irresistible, well written and movingly topical. Ilija Trojanow, with several masterpieces to his name, never puts a foot wrong. He is as important a writer in this day and age as Günter Grass was for his-a joy to read. -- Nuruddin Farah, author of Hiding in Plain SightPerfectly paced, keenly insightful and wickedly funny, The Lamentations of Zeno is at once a much-needed indictment of the global climate crisis and a brilliant portrait of middle life. The Antarctic antics of Where'd You Go, Bernadette? meet the wit and wisdom of Herzog, with the politics ofFlight Behavior sprinkled on top: a treat! -- Taiye Selasi, author of Ghana Must GoThere is little that a novelist can tell us on the subject that we do not already know, but Trojanow gives the statistics and prognoses a human dimension . one of Europe's most original contemporary writers. * Times Literary Supplement *Trojanow harnesses his lyrical skill and wows the reader when he focuses on describing Zeno's exploration of the seemingly monochromatic yet thrilling landscape. The book is a sophisticated drama about a scientist's love for a continent that eludes his slippery hold. * Publishers Weekly *A topical polemic about global warming and climate change... The Lamentations of Zeno is half the length and twice as good [as Ian McEwan]. Trojanow has set out on a particular expedition: to unsettle. This wise, cunning book, which does indeed possess the complex depths of an iceberg, achieves exactly that. * Irish Times *The Lamentations of Zeno is a novel of existential dread... in contemplating the already accomplished destruction of habitats, the consumerism that marks nearly every human activity and the digital onslaught that has colonised our minds, the reader may discover that Zeno's soul-sickness speaks to some disquiet in his or her own battered soul. * Financial Times *Short, sharp, bitter, and very funny. -- Nicola Twilley * New Yorker *With a sharp ear for pop song lyrics and a love of glaciers, our antihero seems to be fighting a losing battle against climate change and the clueless humans who foster it. -- Jay Trachtenberg * Austin Chronicle *

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Book SynopsisIf you are a decent human being who believes in science, then IFLScience! How to F***ing Save the Planet is an absolutely essential read. It is easy to become overwhelmed by the bleak reality of impending climate crisis. However, this book is an irreverent guide to the difficulties that face us – and the steps that we can take to overcome them. Without flinching away from the hard science, IFLScience! How to F***ing Save the Planet explores all aspects of our environmental challenges. From an introduction to climate science and the history of the human carbon footprint, to descriptions of the systemic issues that our planet and its inhabitants are facing, this book cuts down absurd climate change myths and proposes real solutions that will cheer up even the gloomiest climate activist. Table of ContentsThe book includes rigorous scientific details to explain the issues that we face, while brightening the mood with humorous quotes, photos and illustrations, as well as IFLScience's irreverent style. The book covers all aspects of the climate issues that we face, explaining the science behind the problems and proposing solutions on both a macro and micro level.

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Book SynopsisAn attack on the idea that nature and society are impossible to distinguish from each otherIn a world careening towards climate chaos, nature is dead. It can no longer be separated from society. Everything is a blur of hybrids, where humans possess no exceptional agency to set them apart from dead matter. But is it really so? In this blistering polemic and theoretical manifesto, Andreas Malm develops a counterargument: in a warming world, nature comes roaring back, and it is more important than ever to distinguish between the natural and the social. Only with a unique agency attributed to humans can resistance become conceivable.Trade ReviewAndreas Malm's new masterpiece The Progress of This Storm fills an urgent need, as did his seminal Fossil Capital in 2016. In his earlier book, he demonstrated that the fossil capitalism was not preordained by God or Nature or Technology, and that the answer is system change not climate change. In his new study, he teaches us how we can transcend those fashionable, ecological philosophies, clouding our understanding, that stand in the way of the unity of environmental theory and practice. No more definitive work of its kind exists today. -- John Bellamy Foster, editor of Monthly Review, author of Marx’s EcologyAs the global crisis grows, it is more important than ever to understand the complex relationship between society and nature, but much of what passes for environmental theory generates more confusion than insight. Andreas Malm has written another essential contribution to ecological Marxism, a brilliant and clearly written polemic that demolishes constructionism, hybridism, postmodernism and related academic fads, and defends historical materialism as the only credible alternative -- Ian Angus, author of Facing the Anthropocene[The Progress of This Storm] is a major contribution to ecological Marxism, and, more broadly, to the development of a climate map that shows both the direction of the storm and the paths we must take to escape it. -- Ian Angus * Climate & Capitalism *The Progress of This Storm is a furious defense of dialectical thought, and of historical materialism as the theoretical lens appropriate for viewing global warming in all its social and natural complexity. -- Michael Robbins * Bookforum *The Progress of This Storm issues a welcome call to get serious about political agency. -- Alyssa Battistoni * Nation *Andreas Malm has a deep understanding of climate change, writes clearly, and presents a useful overview of environmental thought. He also introduces some compelling concepts of his own, with provocative implications for political struggle ... [The Progress of This Storm] is genuinely stirring in his militant calls to action. -- Dayton Martindale * Boston Review *Malm argues with impressive rigour and skill. * New Socialist *A powerful sketch of a political theory for a time of climate change. -- David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth

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Book SynopsisIn the fight against climate change, the world cannot wait for some hoped-for perfect solution in the future. The crisis is upon us, and we need action now. We need as many different strategies, tools, and ideas as possible; and we need them working right away. We need an all-of-the-above solution. One such solution is the Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM). The VCM is not the solution to climate change. But it is a solution. In Carbon Done Correctly, Richard H. Lawrence, Jr. introduces the VCM through the lens of unsung heroes around the globe who are on the front lines of the fight against climate change. The story begins in Honduras, where Proyecto Mirador builds fuel-efficient cookstoves in rural communities. Richard tells how a medical mission in the wake of Hurricane Mitch in 1998 spawned a multi-decade venture to build better, cleaner stoves which improve the lives of people in Honduras while reducing carbon emissions into our atmosphere. Always at the center of the story are the remarkable people who made it all possible. But Proyecto Mirador needed funding to continue its work. Enter the VCM. Richard describes the process of Gold Standard Certification, by which an organization becomes eligible to sell carbon credits, and the subsequent establishing of Cool Effect, a crowdfunding marketplace for carbon-reducing projects around the world. As Richard shows, for the VCM to succeed and reach its true global potential, transparency and quality must be at the heart of carbon-reducing projects: these projects must reach the Top of the Pyramid. In Carbon Done Correctly, you will be inspired by the stories of the work that people are doing to combat climate change, and you will see how the VCM provides an essential tool in helping them, and other people in the future, continue and improve that work for the benefit of our planet.

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Book Synopsis'Utterly brilliant - engaging, thrilling, disturbing, revelatory, explosive' GEORGE MONBIOT'This extraordinary book, written with startling honesty and vulnerability, traces Charlie's remarkable journey from deep despair to resistance, reconnection and remedy. If you are ready to channel grief within into action in the world, read on.' KATE RAWORTH, author of Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist'Spinning Out is a salve, weaving together the intricacies of madness underscored by the backdrop of a changing climate. It's an essential and insightful resource in the fight for climate justice.' TORI TSUI, author of It's Not Just You'Heart-rendingly, heart-stoppingly glorious' MANDA SCOTT, author of bestselling Boudica seriesHumanity is driving the earth mad. Now, the earth is driving us mad in return. Charlie Hertzog Young became a climate activist in his early teens. His journey led him onto airport runways and into the halls of power, but also to a serious mental health breakdown. He had to rebuild himself physically and psychologically, before focusing his efforts on collective mental recovery in response to a planet in crisis.Spinning Out explores how climate chaos and the failure of those in power to tackle it are causing an inevitable mental health crisis across the globe. The relationship between the climate and our emotional wellbeing goes far deeper than eco-anxiety. It goes to he roots of our civilisation - its principles, its practices and its false solutions.With testimony from dozens of activists, organisers and researchers across every habitable continent, Spinning Out is a celebration (of other ways to be) and a manual for anyone who wants to fight for a better world, while avoiding burnout and despair.Wedding the needs of the earth with the needs of the human mind, Spinning Out offers a powerful, collective vision for change.Trade ReviewUtterly brilliant - engaging, thrilling, disturbing, revelatory, explosive -- George MonbiotThis extraordinary book, written with startling honesty and vulnerability, traces Charlie Hertzog Young's remarkable journey from deep despair to resistance, reconnection and remedy. If you are ready to channel grief within into action in the world, read on -- Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century EconomistSpinning Out is a salve, weaving together the intricacies of madness underscored by the backdrop of a changing climate. It's an essential and insightful resource in the fight for climate justice -- Tori Tsui, author of It’s Not Just YouAbsolutely, gloriously, heart-rendingly, heart-stoppingly glorious -- Manda Scott, author of the bestselling BOUDICA seriesThis book is brave, creative and utterly necessary for understanding what is happening to us psychologically as a result of climate and societal breakdown -- Joe Ryle, Director of the Four Day Week CampaignA brilliant, compassionate account of the intersection between climate change and mental health [...] deserves to be widely read, borrowed, shared and discussed by anyone who cares about the climate -- Ro Randall, founder member of the Climate Psychology AllianceAbove all else, responding to climate emergency is a battle over our minds. Charlie Young had a natural entry point to this perspective through his own experience - and the consequences are radical. If we are able to wrestle and work with our psychology, we may be better able to relate to each other and planet of which we are part. The upshot could be a whole new way of being human. And Spinning Out is a gateway to that possibility -- Anthony Painter, Director of Policy at the Chartered Management Institute (CMI)

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Book SynopsisIs climate change really happening and does it matter? The answer from the scientific community is a resounding yes, yet debates about the reality of climate change and what measures to take are slowing our response. Barrie Pittock, one of the world's leading climate researchers, argues that we need to act urgently to avoid increasingly severe climate change. He looks at the controversy around global warming and other predicted changes, examining the scientific basis of the changes observed to date, how they relate to natural variations and why the evidence points to larger changes later this century. The effect of these changes on our natural systems and our lifestyles will be considerable and could include wild weather, shifts in global ocean circulation, decreases in crop yields and sea-level rises. But the impacts won't be distributed evenly: some countries will suffer more than others. Climate Change: Turning up the Heat explains how our attitudes to risk and uncertainty � constant companions in life � influence our decision making and, ultimately, how much we and future generations stand to lose from rapid climate change. It outlines the current concerns of the major international players and reviews the response to date, detailing national interests. Importantly, it shows there is real hope of managing climate change and minimising the risk of disaster if we step up efforts to develop and apply innovative technological and policy solutions.Trade Review'With an authoritative and sobering voice, Pittock has written a persuasive book that covers a broad spectrum of issues surrounding climate change and makes a strong case for urgent international action... Strongly recommended for those seeking a wide-ranging introduction to the topic of climate change and its human dimensions.' ChoiceTable of ContentsClimate change matters * Learning from the past * Projecting the future * Uncertainty is inevitable, but risk is certain * What climate changes are likely? * Impacts: Why be concerned? * Adaptation: living with climate change * Mitigation: limiting climate change * Climate change in context * The politics of greenhouse * International concern and national interests * Accepting the challenge * Further information *

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Book SynopsisTo solve the climate crisis, the world must make a wholesale shift to renewable energy technologies. With surging growth in emerging markets, this transformation takes on even greater urgency. The challenges – and opportunities – are immense. Selling Solar considers how such a shift might happen. Focusing on the case of solar photovoltaics, it shows how, at the start of the twenty-first century, this promising technology began to diffuse rapidly in select emerging markets, after years of struggling to take off. What were the initial barriers to diffusion? How were they overcome? Who did it? And how can this success be replicated? Drawing on literature on innovation diffusion and entrepreneurship, the author answers these questions, showing how entrepreneurs affected profound technological change not just through the solar systems they sold, but through the example they set to both new market entrants and policymakers. In analyzing how this happened, this book offers important lessons for the diffusion of a range of renewable energy technologies in emerging markets, and for the advancement of the sector as a whole. Selling Solar is essential reading for anyone who believes in a renewable energy future and wants it sooner rather than later.Trade Review'Few missions are more important than solarizing the developing world - Few people have more experience of this task than Damian Miller. This unmissable book is the story of making it happen.' Jeremy Leggett, Founder and Executive Chairman of Solar Century, and author of Half Gone and The Carbon War 'Selling Solar sheds light on the failures, successes, lessons learned and best-practice in the history of solar innovation diffusion in emerging market economies. Its analyses and sound recommendations, deriving from the author's long practice in this field, will provide a practical guideline in the future.' Hermann Scheer, General Chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy and President of EUROSOLAR 'An extremely useful publication which provides a very valuable assessment of how solar energy can be harnessed on a large scale using market approaches.' R. K. Pachauri, Director General, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), and Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 'Selling Solar is for everyone in the business of solar and solar support ... the solar trip of a lifetime from an expert who has experienced it all.' Photon International 'This book moves way beyond the headlines and explores the current and future of an exciting and dynamic industry.' Daniel Kammen, Professor, University of California Berkeley, Founding Director, Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory 'With a combination of entrepreneurial vision, persistence and policy innovation, Damian believes that the world can ignite a market for solar that always existed and was just waiting to happen.' Judge Business School, University of Cambridge 'There are books that inform, those that instruct, and those that inspire - Selling Solar does it all, and manages to be an absorbing and entertaining read at the same time.' Green Energy 'A report from the front line of entrepreneurial enterprise.' International Journal of Ambient Energy 'This book should be recommended reading for any policymaker who participated at the Copenhagen summit in December 2009 and really wants to make a difference in developing countries.' Institute of Physics Energy Group Newsletter 'The book provides an excellent argument for the need to ignite local entrepreneurs to establish infrastructure (sales, service and inventory) and to develop consumer credit in order to deliver a high capital item like solar in any market, developing or developed. I therefore support its primary conclusion, and recommend the book to interested readers.' Energy News 'The book is a land mark.' Renewable Energy Spectrum Magazine 'This richly-sourced overview of all the ways solar energy is operating in the lives of millions of rural and less-affluent people is quite inspiring! ...The Green Transition is clearly underway worldwide, as Damian Miller documents in this useful book.' EthicalMarkets.comTable of ContentsPrologue Part 1: Solar and Diffusion Theory 1. Solar in Emerging Markets 2. Diffusion Eheory and Entrepreneurship 3. Theory Applied to Solar Part 2: Case Studies in Entrepreneurship and Policy Formation 4. Solar Goes Commercial 5. Entrepreneurs as Agents of Change 6. The World Bank on a Learning Curve Part 3: Policy and Conclusions 7. Policy Guidance: Seeing it Like an Entrepreneur 8. Solar Tomorrow: 100 Million Solar Homes 9. Accelerating a Renewable Energy Future. Index

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Book SynopsisThis topic is central to contemporary concerns for more sustainable agricultural development. This is a well-written and clear book, with excellent data, tables and illustrations, addressing issues of water use, climate change, poverty and small farmers. The authors are highly respected and complement each other's acknowledged international expertise.' Professor Jules Pretty, University of Essex, UK 'This useful guide shows that there is great potential for increasing the productive capacity of smallholder farms in the drylands via a range of water management techniques, from the simple to the more complex. Providing a theoretical grounding and a practical guide, Water and cereals in the drylands will appeal to workers on-location as well as students, researchers and policymakers.' New Agriculturalist Cereals are by far the most important source of food throughout the world, either directly for human consumption or indirectly in the form of animal feed for livestock products consumed as food. With world population set to rise to nine billion by 2050, there is an urgent need to examine ways to increase cereal production. Indeed recently the future of cereal production and consumption has been complicated by rising energy prices and the economics of biofuels, which are competing for the use of cereals. One way to increase cereal production is by the more effective use of marginal dryland areas. This book reviews the potential for increased cereal production in drylands across the world, from the USA, Australia and Southern Europe to Asia and Africa. It describes how improved water conservation, water harvesting and investment options can contribute to this, and suggests policies for the more efficient use of existing natural resources in order to lessen the dependence of agriculture on further irrigation development.Trade Review'Would be well used to inform the discussion in scientific papers.' Blair M. McKenzie, Cambridge University Press, 2009. '[The book] describes how improved water conservation, water harvesting and investment options can contribute to ths, and suggests policies for the more efficient use of existing natural resources in order to lessen the dependence of agriculture on futher irrigation development.' Biotechnology, Agronomy Society and Environment, 2009.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface Introduction 1: Drylands, People and Land Use 2: Cereal Production in Drylands 3: Enhancing Cereal Production in Drylands 4: Social and Economic Aspects of Dryland Investment 5: Wider Issues of Water in Drylands Conclusions Bibliography Annexes Index

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Book SynopsisAs greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated and contentious voices fill the air, the question gains urgency: How can people with widely varying viewpoints agree to address climate change? Each participant in the debate seems to have a different agenda, from protecting economic growth in developing countries to protecting the energy industry in industrialized countries, from those aghast at the damage done to the Earth to optimists who think we just need to adjust our technological approach. Debating Climate Change sorts through the tangle of arguments surrounding climate change to find paths to unexpected sites of agreement. Using an innovative sociological approach – combined discourse and social network analyses – Elizabeth L. Malone analyzes 100 documents representing a range of players in this high-stakes debate. Through this she shows how even the most implacable adversaries can find common ground - and how this common ground can be used to build agreement. Written in a clear, accessible style, this original research and insightful use of communication analysis will help advance understanding and negotiation on climate change throughout the pivotal times to come. Published with Science in SocietyTrade Review'As climate change has moved from the science pages to the front page of the world's newspapers, this very timely book makes sense of the current debates in climate policy. With admirable rigour Elizabeth L. Malone demonstrates that despite the diversity of arguments, all is not yet lost and agreement is in reach.' Dr Richard J.T. Klein, Stockholm Environment Institute 'Climate change calls for new engagement across partisan, disciplinary, and institutional divides. Elizabeth Malone's important new book helps us better understand these fault lines and find ways to bring people and ideas together.' Barry Rabe, Professor, Gerald Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan 'The book is well written and takes the reader gradually through the analytical process...This is an interesting read for all those interested in the climate change debate' Proceedings of the Institution of Civil EngineersTable of ContentsPreface: Climate Change in the Spotlight 1. Introduction: Trying to Make Sense of Disparate Arguments about Climate Change 2. The Many Faces of Dispute 3. Climate Change - Part of Globalization? 4. Arguments - Agreeing and Disagreeing 5. Finding Common Ground: The Features of the Arguments Themselves 6. Elements of Arguments as Social Links 7. Beyond Family Ties: Social Network Analysis 8. Prospects for the Debate: Endless Recycling of Arguments or Movement toward Agreement? Appendix 1 Arguments sorted by family with coded rhetorical features Appendix 2. Documents listed by argument Visit http://www.earthscan.co.uk/dcc for free electronic supplementary material: First-stage analysis of the 100 documents examined in this book.

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Book SynopsisA new weapon is emerging to help us fight climate change. It is becoming feasible to take carbon dioxide from power stations and industry, and lock it away safely before it can enter the atmosphere. In the next few years, major demonstration programmes will start up in the USA, EU and elsewhere. But can carbon capture compete with other low-carbon technologies, is it safe and environmentally-friendly, and will people and governments accept it? "Capturing Carbon" examines the need for carbon capture, and the technologies, existing and emerging, that make it work. It describes geological storage and, uniquely, compares it to biological carbon sequestration in soils and forests. It looks at the costs, the economics, and how big a contribution carbon capture can make to avoiding dangerous climate change. It covers the policies that need to be in place, the public reaction, and the opportunities for business. Finally, it gives a hard-headed description of the risks of carbon capture projects. The book is the first comprehensive yet accessible study of the subject. It is a vital resource for environmentalists, policy-makers, investors, academics, industry specialists and anyone else wishing to understand this fast-moving field.

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Book SynopsisFor celebrating Creationtide mindfully in an age of environmental emergency, a resource from the Iona Community's Common Concern Network on the Environment. Reflections, essays, hymns, songs and liturgical resources from more than twenty writers around the world, covering the twelve weeks from September, through the United Nations COP conference and future years. Creator God, we give thanksthat we have heard the Spirit of God in the freshening leavesand the rush of water. So we pray for the creation which nourishes and sustains all that lives. Renew in us the sense of its valuethat we may not squander its riches,or so bend it to our will that we find we have destroyed it. Kathy Galloway

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Book SynopsisHow should we be putting a price on carbon, particularly in developing countries? This volume takes up this contested issue and examines how different economic instruments might apply in developing countries, with a special focus on South Africa. The papers included address a variety of themes in this area: Emissions trading, carbon taxes, fiscal and non-fiscal instruments, policy and institutional dimensions, and lessons from the Clean Development Mechanism. Presenting the very latest research, the volume will be of interest to academics and policymakers in economics, policy and development.Table of Contents1. Putting a Price on Carbon in the Context of Development 2. Carbon Pricing and Industrial Policy in South Africa 3. Comparison of Emissions Trading and Carbon Taxation in South Africa 4. Structuring Approaches to Pricing Carbon in Energy- and Trade-Intensive Sectors in South Africa 5. Meeting a National Emission Reduction Target in an Experimental Setting 6. Is Emission Trading a Possible Policy Option for India? 7. Aligning South African Energy and Climate Change Mitigation Policy

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Book SynopsisThe global response to climate change will demand unprecedented international cooperation, deep economic transformation and resource transfers at a significant scale. Corruption threatens to jeopardise these efforts. Transparency International's Global Corruption Report: Climate Change is the first publication to comprehensively explore such corruption risks. More than fifty leading experts and practitioners contribute, covering four key areas: governance: investigating major governance challenges towards tackling climate change mitigating climate change: reducing greenhouse gas emissions with transparency and accountability adapting to climate change: identifying corruption risks in climate-proofing development, financing and implementation of adaptation forestry governance: responding to the corruption challenges plaguing the forestry sector, and how these challenges need to be integrated into current international strategies to halt deforestation and promote reforestation. The Global Corruption Report: Climate Change provides essential policy analysis to help policy-makers, practitioners and other stakeholders understand these risks and develop effective responses at a critical point in time when the main architecture for climate governance is being developed. Trade Review'Overcoming climate change is the most critical challenge of the 21st century. The flows of funding to assist developing countries in combating climate change have already begun and are likely to be ramped up to many billions of US dollars a year within a few years. The transparent utilisation of these funds will determine their effectiveness. At this critical juncture, the Global Corruption Report provides the most comprehensive assessment of the safeguards that need to be put in place to build trust and strengthen integrity in these processes. Framed by Transparency International's wide expertise in anti-corruption and accountability, this book will serve as an essential reference for anyone engaged in climate policy and decision-making' – Saleemul Huq, Director, International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) 'This book provides expert analysis of the dangers, demonstrates how extensive and complex the issues involved are, and proposes approaches and solutions. It is both a reference source and a call to action.' – David Nussbaum, Chief Executive, WWF-UK 'The book is an excellent - and at this time, exclusive - discussion of corruption within the context of climate governance ... The language, design, and ideas presented in Global Corruption Report: Climate Change make the book an accessible and appropriate read for the public at large, students, practitioners, researchers and policy makers.' – Alexandru N Roman, Environment and Planning C: Government and PolicyTable of ContentsPreface. Foreword. Acknowledgements. Executive Summary 1. Introduction 1.0. Defining the Challenge: Threats to Effective Climate Governance 1.1. Mapping the Climate Change and Governance Challenge: The Big Picture 2. The Climate Policy Framework: Examining the Effectiveness and Accountability of Current Processes 2.0. The Climate Policy Framework: Examining the Effectiveness and Accountability of Current Processes 2.1. From Global Power Politics to Responsible Collective Governance: The Transparency and Inclusiveness of International Climate Governance Institutions and Processes 2.2. Essential Building Blocs for Kyoto and Beyond: Agreeing on Climate Commitments at National and Regional Level 2.2.1. For Europe: Equal Access, Unequal Voice: Business and NGO Lobbying on EU Climate Policy 2.2.2. For US: US Climate Policies: A Snapshot of Lobbyist Influence 2.3. Urban Governance and Climate Change Policy 2.4. Vested or Public Interest? The Matrix of Interests and Influence in Key Emerging Climate Countries 2.4.1. India 2.4.2. Climate Policies in China: a Gradual Move Towards Ambition, More Transparency and Nascent Citizen Involvement 2.5. Climate Policies in Austria: Poor Accountability Breeds Slow Progress 3. Key Elements to Building Integrity in Decision-making 3.0. Key Elements to Building Integrity in Decision-making 3.1. Climate Science: The World is its Jury 3.2. Making Climate Governance Accountable: Reflections on what can be Learned from International Environmental Governance 3.3. The Aarhus Convention: A Blueprint for Inclusive and Accountable Climate Governance? 3.4. Civil Society and the Climate Change Process: How does Participation Compare as a Measure of Transparency? 3.5. Holding Commitment to Account: The Governance Dimension in Climate Change Measurement 3.6. Personal View: A Fresh Approach to Climate Politics? 4. Ensuring Integrity and Transparency in Climate Change Mitigation 4.0. Ensuring Integrity and Transparency in Climate Change Mitigation 4.1. Greenhouse Gas Accounting: a Foundation for Sound Climate Governance 4.2. Measuring, Reporting and Verification of NAMAs and their Support: Considering Capacity, Corruption and Commitments 4.3. The Trade-offs of Trade: Realities and Risks of Carbon Markets 4.3.1 Slovak Public See No Credit in Government's Carbon Trading 4.3.2. Permit Politics: Hungary's CO2 Allowances 4.3.3. Shortcomings and Shortcuts: Sri Lanka's Environmental Impact Assessments 4.3.4. Voluntary Carbon Markets: Successes and Shortfalls 4.3.5. Sectoral Crediting: Getting Governance Right from the Beginning 4.4. Climate Change: Corporate Change: Shifting Business Models to Towards the Climate Agenda 4.5. Policy Engagement: A Missing Link in Corporate Climate Reporting 4.5.1. Colombia: Measuring Transparency Policies and Mechanisms in Public Utilities 4.6. Enabling Green Choices: Ensuring Consumers Receive Accurate, Actionable Information on the Climate Impacts of their Consumption Choices 4.7. Could Corruption Pose a Barrier to Roll-out of Renewable Energy in North Africa? 4.7.1. Spain: Can Incentivising Solar Energy Invite Fraud? 4.8. Preventing a Resource Curse Fuelled by the Green Economy 4.8.1. Bolivia's Lithium: Opportunities and Challenges 4.9. Engineering the Earth: Considering Accountability and the Last Resort 5. Adaptation to Climate Change: Building Accountable, Sustainable Resilience 5.0. Adaptation to Climate Change: Building Accountable Sustainable Resilience 5.1. Show me the Money: Ensuring Equity, Transparency and Accountability in Adaptation Finance 5.1.1. Fast-start Funding: is There an Emerging Parallel Structure for Climate Finance? 5.1.2. Climate Change Funds and Development: How to Ensure Transparency and Access to Information on Funding Streams for Adaptation 5.2. Promoting an Effective and Transparent Use of Funds through the Adaptation Fund 5.3. Climate-proofing Development: Corruption Risks in Adaptation Infrastructure 5.3.1. Climate Change, Infrastructure and Corruption 5.3.2. Climate-proofing and Political Influence in the Philippines 5.4. Disrupting Lives: Climate Migration and Corruption 5.4.1 The Plunder of Kenya's Forests: Resettling the Settlers and Holding the Loggers Accountable 5.4.2. Climate Change Adaptation and Water Integrity: A Global Challenge to Address Local Realities 5.5. When Disaster Strikes: Corruption and Rapid Response in Climate-related Relief and Recovery 6. Forestry Governance: A Key Issue for Climate Change 6.1. Corruption: A Root Cause of Deforestation and Forest Degradation 6.1.1. Climate Change and Corruption Leave the World's Largest Mangrove Forest in Peril 6.2. Governance in the World's Tropical Forests: Where Will REDD+ Land? 6.2.1. Bosaw's: The 'Lung of Central America' Under Threat 6.3. Governance Risks for REDD+: How Weak Forest Carbon Accounting can Create Opportunities for Corruption and Fraud 6.3.1. Hypothetical Offsets – Real Corruption? Carbon Offsets in Papua New Guinea 6.3.2. Is Norway Rocking the REDD Boat?

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Book SynopsisWhat does Francis Rossi of Status Quo think about global warming? Does Ian Gillan of Deep Purple think we’re doing a good job of caring for the planet? These questions and more are tackled by going to the source and asking them. Suzi Quatro, Don McLean, Kenney Jones, Marcella Detroit, Simon Kirke and many more: Over eighty music stars, past and present, are quizzed on their opinions about religion, aliens, politics and of course, the issues of climate change. Why? To raise awareness about the plight the planet is in. Nothing speaks to humans more than music and the influence these legends of rock and pop have is immense. Funny, thought provoking and eye opening, Minds Behind the Music is a book unlike any other. So settle down with a nice environmentally friendly cup of tea and enjoy.

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Book SynopsisHome, the latest collection from writer Emily Critchley, is part experimental confession, part elegiac plea. It is an exploration of the damage done by, in and to many different manifestations of ‘home’, with poetry about child abuse, wrongful imprisonment, #MeToo, borders, Brexit, ‘our lost biophilia’ and global warming, among other issues. It is also an attempt to work through the pieces of a broken family, a broken society and a broken planet, with whatever limited tools the poet can summon. Whatever shards of hope may be picked out of the wreckage are in the understanding that we must be capable of doing more than we think – as individuals and collectively – to write a different future for ourselves and those with whom we share, indeed create, ‘home’. The collection dreams of a new ‘binding ground’ – something stabler beneath all our feet, and that a turning point, a ‘being otherwise’ may be under way.

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Book SynopsisKalle Lasn is the editor of Adbusters Magazine and author of Culture Jam, Design Anarchy and Meme Wars.Pedro Inoue is the long time Creative Director of Adbusters.Bruce Grierson is a five-time Canadian National Magazine Award-winning writer.

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Book SynopsisBauhaus Earth and Pontifical Academy of Sciences conference, June 2022 The built environment is a critical factor in the climate equation. Approximately 40 percent of global emissions derive from the construction, operation, and demolition of human settlements. The 21st century must be the century of re-entanglement, where quintessential functions (housing, work, culture, recreation, etc.) are reintegrated within urban spaces; where socioeconomic and ecological systems form a mutually supportive network of networks; and where past, present, and future are perceived as interwoven waves in the river of time. Fortunately, opportunities exist to transform the built environment from a carbon source to a carbon sink through, e.g. timber construction high-rise buildings, circular bioeconomy methods, AI-assisted design, smart recycling technology, multifunctional land use, integrated regional resource management, and community-based urban development, to name just a few. This volume compiles the papers presented by world-renowned scientists, architects, spatial planners, activists, and policy makers at the Reconstructing the Future for People and Planet conference, held at the Vatican in June 2022. First publication of the Bauhaus Earth think tank Ideas to transform the anthropocene Contributions by Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Ursula von der Leyen, Edgar Pieterse, Francesca Bria, Xu Tiantian, Shigeru Ban, Sheela Patel, Ana María Durán Calisto, and many others We look forward to the re-entanglement of our cities with the ingenuity of nature’s systems, and to forging closer alliances across Built by Nature, Bauhaus Earth, and all our partners in this endeavor. Donald Brenninkmeijer, Chair Built by Nature, Chair Laudes Foundation Investment Committee　Leslie Johnston, CEO, Laudes FoundationJames Drinkwater, Head of Built Environment, Laudes Foundation

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