Climate change Books

Book SynopsisAn essential, up-to-date look at the critical interactions between biological diversity and climate change that will serve as an immediate call to action The physical and biological impacts of climate change are dramatic and broad-ranging. People who care about the planet and manage natural resources urgently need a synthesis of our rapidly growing understanding of these issues. In this all-new sequel to the 2005 volume Climate Change and Biodiversity, leading experts in the field summarize observed changes, assess what the future holds, and offer suggested responses. From extinction risk to ocean acidification, from the future of the Amazon to changes in ecosystem services, and from geoengineering to the power of ecosystem restoration, this book captures the sweep of climate change transformation of the biosphere.Trade Review“This book isn’t just a call to heed the science; it’s a call to citizens everywhere to live up to their responsibilities and protect this fragile planet we share.”—John Kerry, United States Secretary of State, 2013-2017“Mankind’s heedless extraction and pollution of our planet’s resources is tearing apart the web of natural systems that has sustained our species throughout the long course of human development. Tom Lovejoy and Lee Hannah have assembled a book that chronicles these emerging ecological and climatic disasters; yet gives hope that we can still help Earth’s systems heal, and blunt the suffering of coming generations.”—Sheldon Whitehouse, United States Senator for Rhode Island“Biodiversity and Climate Change: Transforming the Biosphere serves as a comprehensiveaccount of this greatest of threatsto humanity’s future. It will serve both as atextbook and a call to action.”—From the Foreword by Edward O. Wilson“An authoritative analysis of the increasing speed and scale of climate change impacts on our biodiversity, together with an illuminating set of specific ways to use our biodiversity to address climate change. A powerful coupling.”—Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary UN Climate Change Convention 2010 – 2016"Lovejoy and Hannah generate a compelling story of the species extinctions that will accompany ongoing, rapid changes in Earth’s climate, coupled with the unrelenting pressure of human population growth."—William H. Schlesinger, President Emeritus, the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies

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Book SynopsisClimate change is not just an environmental problem, itâs a human one. Yet as humans, we are not changing fast enough for ourselves and our planet. Our sense of powerlessness and the belief that our actions wonât make a difference is holding us back from taking action and working on the psychological dimension of change could make the difference to moving us forward. In this transformative book, climate change coaching trailblazers Charly Cox and Sarah Flynn explain why changing for our climate is so hard and why coaching offers a key to affecting behaviour. With practical, easy-to-grasp skills that shift mindsets and motivate action they show how to build connection using a coaching approach, to overcome resistance and empower people to embrace change. If people often tell you âœWhat difference can I really make?â or âœHow can we possibly succeed?â then Climate Change Coaching will help you:âUnderstand the psychological barriers to changeTable of ContentsPreface by Charly CoxForeword by Kimberly Nicholas, Climate Scientist and Author, Under the Sky We MakeIntroductionPART A - what on earth does coaching have to do with climate change?Chapter 1 - A human problem with a human solutionChapter 2 - How change works - and what that means for the climate crisis individually, relationally and systemicallyChapter 3 - Empowerment and belief - a model for resonant actionChapter 4 - Coaching for climate action - what is climate change coaching?PART B - transform the way you communicateChapter 5 - Climate change coaching basicsChapter 6 - How to make and break influenceChapter 7 - Making it okay to talk about climate changeChapter 8 - When there’s too much “not enough”: dealing with scarcityChapter 9 - Overcoming overwhelmChapter 10 - Understanding intrinsic values to overcome resistance to actionChapter 11 - Defining a dream to run towards not a nightmare to run fromChapter 12 - Setting goals and getting into actionChapter 13 - Rage against the machine: turning anger and blame into forward energyChapter 14 - Making space for climate griefPART C - A coaching approach in systems changeChapter 15 - How to help organisations to commit to changeChapter 16 - How to bring people with you in changeChapter 17 - The challenges of landing big climate ambitionsChapter 18 - How the cumulative acts of individuals build to create social change and paradigm shiftsPART D - Coach yourself: how to sustain yourself while catalysing climate actionChapter 19 - How to thrive not surviveChapter 20 - When the going gets tough - how to recover from stress and burnoutChapter 21 - Loving, grieving and hoping

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Book SynopsisIn a world increasingly faced with, and divided by, regional and global crises, resilience has emerged as a key concept with significant relevance for tourism.A paradigmatic shift is taking place in the long-term planning of tourism development, in which the prevailing focus on sustainability is being enhanced with the practical application of resilience planning. This book provides a critical appraisal of sustainability and resilience, and the relationship between the two. Contributions highlight the complexity of addressing social change with resilience planning in a range of tourism contexts, from islands to mountains, from urban to remote environments, and in a range of international settings. Case studies articulate how tourism is both an agent of social change and a victim of larger change processes, and provide important lessons on how to deal with increasingly unstable economic, social and environmental systems.This is the first book to specifically examine social change and sustainability in tourism through a resilience lens. This much-needed contribution to the literature will be a key resource for those working in tourism studies, tourism planning and management, social geography, and development studies, among others.Table of ContentsPart I Introduction 1. Understanding tourism resilience: adapting to social, political, and economic change ​2. Resilience in tourism: development, theory, and application 3. Planning for slow resilience in a tourism community context Part II Social, Political, and Economic Drivers of Change 4. Resilience in the visitor economy: cultural economy, human social networks, and slow change in the regional periphery 5. Tourism and resilience on Jersey: culture, environment, and sea 6. From warrior to beach boy: the resilience of the Maasai in Zanzibar’s tourism business 7. Resilience in the face of changing circumstances: Fair Isle, Shetland 8. Threats and obstacles to resilience: insights from Greece’s wine tourism 9. The sustainability of small business resilience: the local tourism industry of Yogyakarta, Indonesia a decade after the crisis Part III Tourism as a Socio-Economic Driver of Change 10. Strategies for building community resilience to long-term structural change in the Mackay and Whitsunday regions of Queensland, Australia 11. Collaborative capacity building as a resilience strategy for tourism development in indigenous Mexico 12. Resilience and tourism development in rural China: Huangling Village in Jiangxi province 13. Learning from Dabang, Taiwan: sustainability and resilience in action in indigenous tourism development 14. Tourism, history, identity, and community resilience in the world heritage city of Kandy, Sri Lanka 15. Backpacker tourism in Fiji as a sustainability intervention: will they sink or swim? 16. Sustainability or resilience? Poverty-related philanthropic tourism as an agent for deliberate slow change 17. Between resilience and preservation strategies: traditional villages from Maramureş Land, Romania Part IV Conclusion 18. Lessons learned: globalization, change, and resilience in tourism communities

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Book SynopsisThis book analyses the impact of two vital and contemporary developments on shipping law and practice: disruptive technologies and climate change.It considers the impact of these new technologies, honing in on likely emerging issues and unresolved questions, especially about existing and potential private law liabilities and concentrates, from the point of view of English, EU and international law, on the legal implications of climate change and associated environmental risks in the shipping sector.Written by a contributor team drawn from the most experienced and knowledgeable academics and practitioners in shipping law, this treatment of these growing areas of practice will be of great use to lawyers and administrators across the world.Trade Review'The editors are to be congratulated for bringing the scholarly discourse from a colloquium at Swansea University and present that as a book which holds testimony to the fast-paced evolution that the shipping business is currently undergoing.'Abhinayan Basu Bal, University of Gothenburg, SwedenTable of Contents1. Shipping and Distributed Ledgers: Of Paper, Code and Progress 2. Blockchain and Electronic Bills of Lading: Can Revolutionary Technology Facilitate Evolutionary Change 3. Distributed Ledger Technology and Commercial Insurance: The Beginning of a New Era? 4. UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records: The Missing Link Towards E-Shipping? 5. Autonomous Systems: Cyber Risks and Seaworthiness 6. Use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems in a Maritime Context: Operational, Regulatory and Legal Issues 7. The Role AI and Machine Learning Will Play in Maritime and Trade Law 8. Maritime Intellectual Property: Shining a Light on the Protection of Disruptive Technologies within the Shipping Industry 9. The Human Element in Autonomous Shipping 10. Shipping and Climate Change 11. International Legal Aspects of Arctic Shipping 12. Paving the Way for a (European) Emission Trading System for Shipping: EU and IMO on Different Paths 13. Liability for Climate Damage and Shipping

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Book SynopsisThere is widespread consensus in the international scientific community that climate change is happening and that abrupt and irreversible impacts are already set in motion.  What part does education have to play in helping alleviate rampant climate change and in mitigating its worst effects?  In this volume, contributors review and reflect upon social learning from and within their fields of educational expertise in response to the concerns over climate change. They address the contributions the field is currently making to help preempt and mitigate the environmental and social impacts of climate change, as well as how it will continue to respond to the ever changing climate situation. With a special foreword by Desmond Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town.Trade Review"The mosaic of inspiring and vanguard ideas graciously offered and shared by the authors in this collection has the power to truly transform global conversations about education for climate change….The book is an easy read, hard to put down, drawing you back over and over again….I highly recommend it for a wide range of audiences. It is well worth the price. You will not be disappointed, and, as with me, will likely be inspired."--Journal of Cleaner Production 18 (2010), 696-697"This is an important and provocative book that brings to view many issues that are too frequently lost in the hype and hubbub. A valuable contribution to the debate that should be read by all those concerned with education and the future of our planet."--Dr. John Blewitt, Director MSc Sustainable Development at the University of Exeter, UK"An extremely timely volume [that] includes an impressive range of authors, impressive not only in their intellectual standing in the field, but also being a genuinely global range of authors, many of whom are also active outside the classroom on civil society and political activities on climate change and sustainability issues....this book makes an important contribution to our understanding of the multidimensional problem of climate change as the dominant issue of the 21st century."--Policy & Practice: A Development Education Review"Although this book is academic in tone, the practical implications of its theories make it essential reading for curriculum designers and educators interested in improving climate change education."—Green Teacher Magazine"Education and Climate Change: Living and Learning in Interesting Times should be seen as an important contribution to climate change studies, especially for graduate students who want to glimpse the many sides of environmental education. Educators, practitioners, pedagogues and scientists would certainly benefit from this timely book." - Yves Laberge, Electronic Green Journal "The mosaic of inspiring and vanguard ideas graciously offered and shared by the authors in this collection has the power to truly transform global conversations about education for climate change….The book is an easy read, hard to put down, drawing you back over and over again….I highly recommend it for a wide range of audiences. It is well worth the price. You will not be disappointed, and, as with me, will likely be inspired."--Journal of Cleaner Production 18 (2010), 696-697"This is an important and provocative book that brings to view many issues that are too frequently lost in the hype and hubbub. A valuable contribution to the debate that should be read by all those concerned with education and the future of our planet."--Dr. John Blewitt, Director MSc Sustainable Development at the University of Exeter, UK"An extremely timely volume [that] includes an impressive range of authors, impressive not only in their intellectual standing in the field, but also being a genuinely global range of authors, many of whom are also active outside the classroom on civil society and political activities on climate change and sustainability issues....this book makes an important contribution to our understanding of the multidimensional problem of climate change as the dominant issue of the 21st century."--Policy & Practice: A Development Education Review"Although this book is academic in tone, the practical implications of its theories make it essential reading for curriculum designers and educators interested in improving climate change education."—Green Teacher Magazine"Education and Climate Change: Living and Learning in Interesting Times should be seen as an important contribution to climate change studies, especially for graduate students who want to glimpse the many sides of environmental education. Educators, practitioners, pedagogues and scientists would certainly benefit from this timely book." - Yves Laberge, Electronic Green JournalTable of ContentsForeword: The Fatal Complacency Desmond Tutu. Introduction Fumiyo Kagawa and David Selby 1. Climate Change Education and Communication: A Critical Perspective on Obstacles and Resistances Edgar González-Gaudiano and Pablo Meira-Cartea 2. ‘Go, Go, Go, Said the Bird’: Sustainability-related Education in Interesting Times David Selby 3. Peace Learning: Universalism in Interesting Times Magnus Haavelsrud 4. Climate Injustice: How Should Education Respond? Heila Lotz-Sisitka 5. The Environment, Climate Change, Ecological Sustainability and Anti-Racist Education George J. Sefa Dei 6. Learning in Emergencies: Defense of Humanity for a Livable World Fumiyo Kagawa 7. Sustainable Democracy: Issues, Challenges and Proposals for Citizenship Education in an Age of Climate Change Ian Davies and James Pitt 8. School Improvement in Transition: An Emerging Agenda for Interesting Times Jane Reed 9. Critique, Create and Act: Environmental Adult and Social Movement Learning in an Era of Climate Change Darlene E. Clover and Budd L. Hall 10. Transforming the Ecological Crisis: Challenges for Faiths and Interfaith Education in Interesting Times Toh Swee-Hin (S.H.Toh) and Virginia Cawagas 11. Public Health Threats in a Changing Climate: Meeting the Challenges through Sustainable Health Education Janet Richardson and Margaret Wade 12. Weaving Change: Improvising Global Wisdom in Interesting and Dangerous Times Wendy Agnew. Climate Change Education: A Critical Agenda for Interesting Times Fumiyo Kagawa and David Selby

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewJan-Olav Henriksen has produced a valuable resource for the church as it struggles to bring Christian faith to bear fruitfully on the climate crisis. He offers a deep dive into the power of symbols to engender consistent action – including political action – for transformation toward ways of living that allow earth’s climate systems to flourish. This book will be invaluable in the academy and in the church. -- Cynthia D. Moe-Lobeda, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary of California Lutheran University, USAThe late Ursula K Le Guin argued that if we going to think ourselves out of the current problems of climate change and globalization, we are going to need more speculative fiction writers. This means we need new symbols with which to imagine our planetary futures. This book is important because it critiques the underlying theological symbols of western style democracies and economics that are, in the era of the Anthropocence, quite simply deficient. We need new, planetary ways of imagining human-God-Earth relations that suggest we (and all things human) are emergent from the process of planetary evolution. -- Whitney Bauman, Florida International University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: The Deficit Thesis and the Task It Presents Part 1: Contexts for the Symbol Deficit Chapter One: From Acts of God to the Anthropocene Chapter Two: Culprits for the Predicament Chapter Three: Consumer Idolatry Chapter Four: Religion in Denial Chapter Five: To Empower Those Who Suffer and Give Voice to Those Who Lack It Part 2: Conditions for symbolic practices Chapter Six: Symbols as Mediating Practice Chapter Seven: Conditions for Agency: A Critique of Modernity’s Detached Subject Chapter Eight: Symbols for Enhancing Moral Motivation and Avoiding Defection Chapter Nine: An Inductive, Experientially Oriented Theology Part 3: Symbols for Practices Chapter Ten: God as Creator - A Critical Symbol? Chapter Eleven: From Anthropos to All of Creation Chapter Twelve: Symbolic Deficits in Apocalypticism – Towards a Presentist Eschatology Chapter Thirteen: Sin Chapter Fourteen: Symbols for Hope – A Critical Evaluation Chapter Fifteen: Sacrifice, Hope, and Grace Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisQuestioning energy transition in the Arab region using a climate justice lensTrade Review'Demonstrates that the climate crisis - along with mainstream responses to it - is playing out along colonial lines. It's time to face up to this reality and build an anti-colonial struggle in response.' -- Jason Hickel, economic anthropologist and author of 'Less is More''This groundbreaking volume by scholars deeply embedded in the region's political and knowledge production milieus, offers a timely, indeed acute, analysis of what a just transition might mean for the region. The authors examine in theoretically and empirically rich essays contestations over the Sahara, greenwashing Israel's colonisation of Palestine, agricultural and mineral extractivism, green capitalism and finance and a range of other urgently pivotal subjects.' -- Laleh Khalili, author of 'Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula''A brave and timely book that offers hope for our planet. These essays from the Arab world analyse the complexity of the environmental issues at play in the region and offer an optimistic, global, democratic vision of transformative sustainability centred around climate justice.' -- Ahdaf Soueif, novelist and political and cultural commentator'A much-needed decolonized examination of the climate crisis for all sacrificial zones. A focus on the situation in North Africa, an area of intense contestations pitching the peoples against the relentless push by fossil fuel speculators and other forces of neoliberalism is both welcome and a clear warning that must not be ignored.' -- Nnimmo Bassey, author of 'To Cook a Continent: Destructive Extraction and the Climate Change Crisis in Africa''A must-read thought-provoking book for every researcher, policymaker and activist working on climate, energy, development and social justice issues in the Arab region. This volume educates and empowers its readers to think about the roots of the problems in clear, systematic, and transformative ways. A significant contribution to the literature on just transition, greenwashing, neocolonialism, extractivism, and neoliberalism.' -- Fadhel Kaboub, President of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity'This book is crucial for those seeking alternative visions and policies to the complete disaster currently being produced by capitalism, and to capitalism’s failing global and local projects to deal with an issue that is a question of life and death. Despite the multi-dimensional crisis that the Arab region – and the whole world – is going through […] the Arab region remains largely absent from the intensifying debate over the future.' -- Wael Gamal, Egyptian writer and researcher in political economy'Just as the science is telling us loud and clear that the current situation of climate deterioration may be our last chance “before it is too late”, so the research and knowledge presented in this book, including its practical and feasible recommendations (which are directed to people rather than to the indifferent, comprador regimes in the Arab region), serves as wake-up call, reminding us of the urgent need to act before it is too late.' -- Nahla Chahal, Professor of political sociology, Editor-in-Chief, 'As-Safir Al-Arabi'‘[T]his book serves as a crucial link in the collective efforts and common priorities of climate experts and climate justice advocates in Arab countries who, moreover, refuse the new colonialism that is disguised in some agendas around addressing climate change and harnessing renewable energies. I hope this book can be a catalyst that will prompt governments and civil society organizations and institutions to pursue climate justice and achieve energy democracy in North Africa.’ -- Houcine Rhili, Development specialist, Tunisia'For anyone committed to putting the Just into Just Transition this is a vital intervention that connects the past to the present and challenges us not only to reimagine the future, but to stand with those on the frontlines fighting for it.' -- Asad Rehman, War on Want, UK'The inevitable consequences of climate change caused by extractivism will mostly affect vulnerable communities ... The authors push us to be critical of green projects and remind us that not everything green should be blindly accepted.' -- 'The New Arab'Table of ContentsTables and Figures Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Just in Time – The Urgent Need for a Just Transition in the Arab Region - Hamza Hamouchene and Katie Sandwell PART I: ENERGY COLONIALISM, UNEQUAL EXCHANGE AND GREEN EXTRACTIVISM 1. The Energy Transition in North Africa: Neocolonialism Again! – Hamza Hamouchene 2. An Unjust Transition: Energy, Colonialism and Extractivism in Occupied Western Sahara - Joanna Allan, Hamza Lakhal and Mahmoud Lemaadel 3. Arab–Israeli Eco-Normalization: Greenwashing Settler Colonialism in Palestine and the Jawlan - Manal Shqair 4. What Can an Old Mine Tell Us about a Just Energy Transition? Lessons from Social Mobilization across Mining and Renewable Energy in Morocco - Karen Rignall 5. Towards a Just Agricultural Transition in North Africa - Saker El Nour 6. The Electricity Crisis in Sudan: Between Quick Fixes and Opportunities for a Sustainable Energy Transition - Razaz H. Basheir and Mohamed Salah Abdelrahman PART II: NEOLIBERAL ADJUSTMENTS, PRIVATISATION OF ENERGY AND THE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS 7. International Finance and the Commodification of Electricity in Egypt - Mohamed Gad 8. The Energy Sector in Jordan: Crises Caused by Dysfunctional and Unjust Policies - Asmaa Mohammad Amin 9. Renewable Energy in Tunisia: An Unjust Transition - Chafik Ben Rouine and Flavie Roche 10. The Moroccan Energy Sector: A Permanent Dependence - Jawad Moustakbal PART III: FOSSIL CAPITALISM AND CHALLENGES TO A JUST TRANSITION 11. A Transition to Where? The Gulf Arab States and the New 'East-East' Axis of World Oil - Adam Hanieh 12. The Challenges of the Energy Transition in Fossil Fuel Exporting Countries: The Case of Algeria - Imane Boukhatem 13. Unjust Transitions: The Gulf States' Role in the "Sustainability Shift" in the Middle East and North Africa - Christian Henderson About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisStruggles over drinking water, new outbreaks of mass violence, ethnic cleansing, civil wars in the earth's poorest countries, endless flows of refugees: these are the new conflicts and forces shaping the world of the 21st century.Trade Review"Welzer's thinking, like his writing, is fast, fresh and incisive. His book is a warning thatwarrants reading; it does not need tobe a forecast." European Voice "An absolutely essential read." Morning Star "An engaging and thought-provoking contribution to current conflict analysis." International Affairs "A thought-provoking if uncomfortable read." Irish Times "Should be considered mandatory reading for anyone with concerns over the impact of climate change upon their lives, their families, their communities, their country." Midwest Book Review "Should be considered mandatory reading for anyone with concerns over the impact of climate change upon their lives, their families, their communities, their country." Library Bookwatch "If you have pondered what climate change means for humanity, here's a book for you ... A fascinating tome." A-Men Magazine "Welzer combines analytical insight with passionate conviction in calling on all of us to help stem the violence that flows from climate change." Martin Albrow, University of Wales"Rampant climate change will redraw the geopolitical map of the 21st century. This book asks the uncomfortable but important questions that we will face in the future."Robert Falkner, London School of Economics and Political ScienceTable of ContentsAcknowledgements vi 1 A Ship in the Desert: The Past and Future of Violence 1 2 Climate Conflicts 8 3 Global Warming and Social Catastrophes 24 4 A Brief Survey of Climate Change 33 5 Killing Yesterday 39 6 Killing Today: Ecocide 51 7 Killing Tomorrow: Never-Ending Wars, Ethnic Cleansing, Terrorism, Shifting Boundaries 88 8 Changed Realities 138 9 The Revival of Old Conflicts: Faiths, Classes, Resources and the Erosion of Democracy 155 10 More Violence 160 11 What Can and Cannot Be Done – 1 163 12 What Can and Cannot Be Done – 2 179 Notes 184 Index 215

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Book Synopsis* Before his sudden death in January 2015, Ulrich Beck was one of the world s foremost sociologists. This new book is the last book he wrote before his death; it was completed in December 2014 * In this book Beck introduces a new concept 'metamorphosis' to describe what is happening in our world today.Trade Review'This book, which its author, one of the most original and perceptive thinkers of our time, was prevented from completing by a sudden catastrophe, reads as a most thorough and exhaustive – indeed complete – description of our world: a world defined by its endemic incompleteness and dedicated to resisting completion.'—Zygmunt Bauman 'This brilliant manifesto is in good part Ulrich Beck having a debate with himself. He comes out winning, because whatever doubts or disagreements he may have with himself, he moves on, never losing sight of the foundational distinction he is after – transformation vs metamorphosis. The text oscillates between deeply engaging philosophical reflections and decisive interpretive outcomes. And there is no need to worry about the unresolved doubts Beck puts on the table: they are certain to become a great research project for future generations.' —Saskia Sassen, Columbia University 'Amid crises, challenges, and startling innovations the world is taking on a new shape and character. Quantitative change gives way to qualitative on dimensions from inequality through climate change. The new reality is by definition not completely knowable, but we can know the path to it better by reading Ulrich Beck's sadly but somehow also aptly unfinished book, The Metamorphosis of the World.' —Craig Calhoun, Director, London School of Economics and Political ScienceTable of ContentsForeword Preface Introduction, Evidence, Theory Chapter I. Why metamorphosis of the world, why not transformation? Chapter II. Being God Chapter III. How climate change might save the world Chapter IV. Theorising metamorphosis Themes Chapter V. From class to risk-class: Inequality in times of metamorphosis Chapter VI. Where does the power go? Politics of invisibility Chapter VII. Emancipatory catastrophism: Common goods as side effects of bads Chapter VIII. Public bads: Politics of visibility Chapter IX. Digital risk: Failing of functioning institutions Chapter X. Meta-power game of politics: Metamorphosis of the nation and international relations Chapter XI. Cosmopolitan communities of risk: From United Nations to United Cities Outlook Chapter XII. Global Risk Generations: United in decline Bibliography

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Book SynopsisArguing that climate injustice is one of our most pressing urban problems, this volume explores the possibilities and challenges for more just urban futures under climate change. Contributors to the volume build theoretical tools for interrogating the root causes of climate change, as well as policy failures.

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Book SynopsisI love it. Earle understands the big climate picture and paints it with exceptional clarity. JAMES HANSEN, director, Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions, Columbia University Earth InstituteWhat''s natural, what''s caused by humans, and why climate change is a disaster for all A Brief History of the Earth''s Climate is an accessible myth-busting guide to the natural evolution of the Earth''s climate over 4.6 billion years, and how and why human-caused global warming and climate change is different and much more dangerous.Richly illustrated chapters cover the major historical climate change processes including evolution of the sun, plate motions and continental collisions, volcanic eruptions, changes to major ocean currents, Earth''s orbital variations, sunspot variations, and short-term ocean current cycles. As well as recent human-induced climate change and an overview of the implications of the COVID pandemic for climate change. Content includes: Understanding natural geological processes that shaped the climate How human impacts are now rapidly changing the climate Tipping points and the unfolding climate crisis What we can do to limit the damage to the planet and ecosystems Countering climate myths peddled by climate change science deniers. A Brief History of the Earth''s Climate is essential reading for everyone who is looking to understand what drives climate change, counter skeptics and deniers, and take action on the climate emergency.AWARDS SILVER 2022 IPPY Awards - ScienceTrade Review"I love it. Earle understands the big climate picture and paints it with exceptional clarity." — James Hansen, director, Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions, Columbia University Earth Institute "People interested in climate change, which these days should be everyone, need a basic understanding of the science of why Earth's climate is the way it is, and why it sometimes changes. Earle's book makes that complicated story easy to grasp. It's a model for clear science writing, and it forcefully awakens readers to what's at stake and what needs to be done." — Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow, Post Carbon Institute, author, Power "An informative, succinct, and fascinating read — Steven Earle offers a unique and detailed account of Earth's climate history. His innate story-telling ability, coupled with his remarkable talent for making complex scientific information accessible, makes this page-turner a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the Earth's climate system." — Andrew Weaver, professor, University of Victoria, lead author, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, second, third, fourth, and fifth Assessment Reports, former chief editor, Journal of Climate "An engaging tour through the complex natural processes at play in writing the Earth's long history of natural climate change to our present climate emergency. This primer will give campaigners, policymakers, and concerned citizens a more thorough understanding of climate science and renewed conviction to go all in on applying the brakes, leaving fossil fuels behind, and embracing a cleaner, healthier, and more equitable future." — Tom Green, Senior Climate Policy Advisor, David Suzuki FoundationTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. What Controls the Earth's Climate? 2. A Slowly Warming Sun 3. Sliding Plates and Colliding Continents 4. Cooling and Warming from Volcanic Eruptions 5. Earth's Orbital Variations 6. Moving Heat with Ocean Currents 7. Short-term Solar Variations 8. Catastrophic Collisions 9. A Plague of Humans 10. Tipping Points 11. What Now? Notes Index About the Author About New Society Publishers

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Book SynopsisReeling from a crisis of hope, lifelong activist Andrew Boyd seeks out today's leading climate thinkers, from collapse-psychologist Jamey Hecht to Indigenous botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer. "If it's the end of the world, now what?" he asks, as he steers us through our climate angst in search of a "better catastrophe."Trade Review"Urgent, sobering reading." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review "The most realistic yet least depressing end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it guide out there." —Foreword Reviews, starred review "The book is stunning. By delivering its devastating news in imaginative, engaging, and sometimes even hilarious ways, it marks the emergence of a new and genuinely exciting kind of realism." —Brian Eno, musician and environmentalist "A profound meditation on how to live in a world on the brink of collapse. Boyd moves gracefully beyond the usual talk of hope and despair to provide a startling vision of a future shaped not only by chaos, but also by compassionate care." —Jenny Offill, author, Weather and Dept. of Speculation "A heartfelt and humorous take on how to show up at 'the end of the world as we know it'." —Britt Wray, PhD, Human and Planetary Health Fellow, Stanford University and author, Generation Dread "I Want a Better Catastrophe is unlike anything else I've ever read about climate change, and how to keep living through it. For a start it's extremely funny. It is also angry, passionate, curious, honest, surprising, and very well-researched. Beyond its signature gallows humor, it brings a kind of deeply felt "gallows love" for the beauty and wonder of the world, and how we must fight to defend it." —Nick Hunt, co-director, Dark Mountain Project, and author, Outlandish "Time is clearly short—but I Want a Better Catastrophe proves it's never too late for a good laugh, a good cry, and a good call to action!" —Bill McKibben, author, The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon "Through expert interviews, compassionate analysis, and deliciously dark wit, Boyd beats a path through the messy emotional and psychological terrain we must travel in order to face the future." —Onnesha Roychoudhuri, author, The Marginalized Majority "A rowdy, taboo-busting get-together of climate emergency thinkers." —Josephine Ferorelli, co-founder, Conceivable Future "A must read for its wit, and for the insights it offers." —Paul D. Miller, aka DJ SpookyTable of ContentsPrologue: It's the End of the World. Now What? Chapter 1: Impossible News Interview: Guy McPherson "If we’re the last of our species, let’s act like the best of our species.” Interview: Tim DeChristopher “It’s too late— which means there’s more to fight for than ever.” Chapter 2: The Five Stages of Climate Grief Interview: Meg Wheatley —“Give in without giving up.” Chapter 3: Existential Crisis Scenario Planning Interview: Gopal Dayaneni — “We’re going to suffer, so let’s distribute that suffering equitably.” Chapter 4: How to Be White at the End of the World Chapter 5: Is There Hope Interview: Joanna Macy — “Be of service not knowing whether you’re a hospice worker or a midwife.” Interview: Jamey Hecht — “Witness the whole human story through tragic eyes.” Chapter 6: What Is Still Worth Doing Interview: adrienne maree brown — “How do we fall as if we were holding a child on our chest?” Interview: Robin Wall Kimmerer — “How can I be a good ancestor?” Chapter 7: Experiments on the Verge Chapter 8: Another End of the World Is Possible Epilogue: Now Is When You Are Needed Most Epi-Epilogue: Passing the Torch Appendix: Stuff You Can (Still) Do

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Book Synopsis*2023 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal Winner: Death/Dying Grief & Loss (Small Press)News reports appear every day now on the ecological state of our planetary home and the news is not good. Ecological systems are in terrible peril, species are dying by the millions, and global warming is getting worse. Increasing numbers of people feel the impact of this, feel some form of what is being called climate grief, ecological loss, or sometimes even solastalgia. Our species is entering a time of difficult and deep mourning. As environmentalist Leslie Head has said, Grief will be our companion on this journeyit is not something we can deal with and move on. It will be with us for a long time to come.Stephen Harrod Buhner takes the reader on a journey into and through that grief to what is waiting on the other side, a place that Viktor Frankl, Jacques Cousteau, Vaclav Havel, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and so many others have found. It's where one becomes an engaged wTrade Review"This book is a plainspoken and shambolic masterpiece, moist with tears. It's the honest fruit of a life lived close to the rain, to the whispering of leaves, to the raggedness of the heart. Created by a man who has stopped each day to catch sight of, to chew on, and slowly digest his own shadow, it works a dark and joyous alchemy upon the soul of the reader."—David Abram, author of The Spell of the Sensuous and Becoming Animal"I don’t know how Stephen has managed to awaken the feeling-wisdom in me with just ‘mere’ words, but boy, it works—and with such poise, grace, humility and insight. I will revisit this treasure of a book again and again to imbibe its medicine and remember how to feel most inwardly and how to respond most appropriately in my own life to the catastrophic realities of our times."—Stephan Harding PhD, Senior Lecturer and Deep Ecologist, Schumacher College. Author of Animate Earth and Gaia Alchemy"Earth Grief is a guide for navigating the turbulent and changing climate of mind that we have inherited today. When you are in unfamiliar lands filled with perils, it is helpful to find someone who has a feel for the terrain and has come to call that place home. Stephen Harrod Buhner steps into this elder role by telling stories that call us to struggle with our grief for what has died and is dying not only around us, but within us too. As he writes: ‘while it is true that we need to change human behavior in the outer world it is even more true that we need to change human behavior in the interior world.’ By bringing us face-to-face with such important truths, Earth Grief helps us reconnect our tears and heart-break to the sustenance we need for a different way of living."—Timothy B. Leduc, Assoc Professor of Social Work, Wilfrid Laurier University, author of A Canadian Climate of Mind and Climate, Culture, Change "This is a book for all those who feel the grief, pain and suffering of the Earth and our fellow-creatures—including many humans—and are tired of denying it, of trying to shut it out, and of all the false promises that there is a solution: a technique, a method, a system that will make it go away or be okay. It is a book about the central truth of our time: the collapse, already well underway, of the ecosystems that comprise life and support all human societies. Yet unlike so much other writing on the subject, it engages that truth with the deep feeling and emotional honesty that it entails and deserves. Buhner even offers hope (not mere optimism) that on the other side of the wrenching work of going down into the darkness of grief, both inner and outer, there might be a way to reinhabit our only home with integrity, humility and compassion. I know of no more important work." —Patrick Curry, author of Ecological Ethics and editor-in-chief of The Ecological Citizen"Stephen Buhner is one of the plant geniuses of our time."—Rosemary Gladstar, the godmother of American herbalism, founder of the International Herbal Symposium, and author of Herbal Healing for Women."One of America's preeminent herbalists, Stephen Buhner articulates the sacred underpinnings of the herbal world and deep ecology as only a real ‘green man’ can."—David Hoffmann, Fellow of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists and author of The Holistic Herbal"Stephen Buhner's writings are a powerful call for people of all colors and nations to work together to restore recognition for and experience of the sacredness of Earth."—Brooke Medicine Eagle, Native American teacher and author of Buffalo Woman Comes Singing"The Earth will love you for reading his work."—William S. Lyon, author of Black Elk: The Sacred Ways of a LakotaTable of ContentsEarth Grief Table of Contents: The Beginning: In Which the Author Positions Himself Chapter One: The Journey Before Us Interlude One: The Teaching of Barns and Birds Chapter Two: Earth Grief Interlude Two: “Once You Are Real You Can’t Become Unreal Again.” Chapter Three: Shame and Guilt Interlude Three: “People Possess Four Things That Are No Good at Sea” Chapter Four-The-First-Part: Inevitability and Descent Narratio Interruptus: The Diagnosis Chapter Four-The-Second-Part: Inevitability and Descent Interlude Four: Fragments From a Stained Glass Window Chapter Five: The Journey Through Grief and Loss Interlude Five: “It is Hard to Live Without Love, You Know” Chapter Six: The Life We Live With Afterwards Epilogue: “It’s Hollow inside, isn’t it, just like me.” Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe book is for city dwellers, urban planners, and students interested in how climate change is unfolding in cities. It is the first book to explore the range and extent of adaptive transformations required to manage growing climate-related shocks that are only beginning to play out in large cities worldwide.Trade Review'Radical Adaptation brings a global perspective to our engagement with the reality of climate change in everyday life. In this insightful and carefully researched book Stone explores a series of emerging intersections between climate, infrastructure, and contemporary cities.' Matthew Gandy, University of Cambridge'Professor Stone has written a magnificently clear text outlining the most critical current impacts of climate change on cities (heat, drought, sea level rise, and flooding) and plausible solutions. With expert synthesis, he presents complex scientific information in understandable, jargon-less language, providing brilliant insight into current conditions, future threats, and adaptation options. This book is a must-read for anyone engaged in urban infrastructure and planning and climate adaptation and anyone interested in how climate change is altering our lives.' Peter J. Marcotullio, Director, CUNY Center for Sustainable Cities, Hunter College'This book describes the many ways the climate crisis impacts on us now in our homes, neighbourhoods and livelihoods and the most effective do-able measures to address these. What makes it special is the interweaving of detailed city case studies with a general text (also detailed) and historic examples.' David Satterthwaite, International Institute for Environment and Development and Visiting Professor, University College, London'Cities are in a constant state of becoming, and now climate change is forcing societies to even more dramatically reimagine how cities are built, and how people live in them. In response, Radical Adaptation provides a compelling eye-level and planning-based narrative on the pathways and possibilities that lie ahead for urban spaces and residents. As a solutions-focused book, it details the story of how positive transformative change is within our own grasp, and that the cumulative impact of small and discrete steps, even against rising challenges, can become the rebuilding that is needed to create more resilient, sustainable and equitable communities.' William D. Solecki, Hunter College, City University of New York'Cities are at the forefront of climate change. Professor Stone provides a compelling account of how past infrastructure choices in cities interact with extreme weather and climate events being increasingly fueled by climate change to affect the health and well-being of residents. Focusing on high ambient temperature and water (too much or too little), Professor Stone provides interesting, illustrative, and evidence-based stories of current impacts in cities associated with changing weather patterns; and demonstrates how timely, practical, and urgent investments in re-engineering infrastructure would increase resilience to additional climate change.' Kristie L. Ebi, University of WashingtonTable of Contents1. Heat; 2. Water (Too Much); 3. Water (Too Little); 4. Retreat Postscript: Vine City References; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisClimate impacts and risk, within and across cities, are distributed highly unequally. Cities located in low latitudes are more vulnerable to climate risk and impacts than in high latitudes, due to the large proportion of informal settlements relative to the housing stock and more frequent extremes. According to EM-DAT, about 60% of environmental disasters in cities relate to riverine floods. Riverine floods and heatwaves cause about 33% of deaths in cities. However, cold-waves and droughts impact most people in cities (42% and 39% of all people, respectively). Human vulnerability intersects with hazardous, underserved communities. Frequently affected groups include women, single parents, and low-income elderly. Responses to climatic events are conditioned by the informality of social fabric and institutions, and by inequitable distribution of impacts, decision-making, and outcomes. To ensure climate-resilient development, adaptation and mitigation actions must include the broader urban context of informality and equity and justice principles. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores a series of connected themes focused on the role economics and other influential forms of theory and thinking have played in creating the current predicament and the scope for alternatives and how they might be framed.Thirty years have passed since the inception of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the beginning of policy on climate change. Thirty wasted years. To most politicians, long-term collective interest has been denominated in meaningless units of time, a never and forever that has continually delayed action. From complacency has come potential disaster, and we are now living in a time of climate emergency and ecological breakdown. The next decade is a pivotal period requiring fundamental change. But numerous impediments remain. Continual material, energy and economic growth on a planetary scale are manifestly impossible, and yet economic theory takes these as a given and political leadership and policy seem unwiTable of ContentsIntroduction: economics and climate emergency 1. ‘The economy’ as if people mattered: revisiting critiques of economic growth in a time of crisis 2. What does degrowth mean? A few points of clarification 3. What does Degrowth mean? Some comments on Jason Hickel’s ‘A few points of clarification’ 4. Economics and the climate catastrophe 5. Apologists for growth: passive revolutionaries in a passive revolution 6. The appallingly bad neoclassical economics of climate change 7. The failure of Integrated Assessment Models as a response to ‘climate emergency’ and ecological breakdown: the Emperor has no clothes 8. Teaching climate complacency: mainstream economics textbooks and the need for transformation in economics education 9. Unthinking knowledge production: from post-Covid to post-carbon futures 10. In search of a political economy of the postgrowth era 11. Rule of nature or rule of capital? Physiocracy, ecological economics, and ideology 12. Economics, the climate change policy-assemblage and the new materialisms: towards a comprehensive policy 13. From climate change to economic change? Reflections on ‘feedback’ 14. The regenerative turn: on the re-emergence of reciprocity embedded in living ecologies 15. The global climate of land politics 16. From the Paris Agreement to the Anthropocene and Planetary Boundaries Framework: an interview with Will Steffen 17. Postscript, an end to the war on nature: COP in or COP out? 18. Global Climate Emergency: after COP24, climate science, urgency, and the threat to humanity 19. Fiddling while the planet burns? COP25 in perspective 20. Democratizing global climate governance? The case of indigenous representation in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 21. Climate and food inequality: the South African Food Sovereignty Campaign response 22. The global south, degrowth and The Simpler Way movement: the need for structural solutions at the global level 23. Climate justice and sustained transnational mobilization 24. Deep Restoration: from The Great Implosion to The Great Awakening

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Book SynopsisEmphasizing the voices of activists, this bookâs diverse contributors examine communitiesâ common experiences with environmental injustice, how they organize to address it, and the ways in which their campaigns intersect with related movements such as Black Lives Matter and Indigenous sovereignty.The global COVID-19 pandemic exposed the ways in which BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) communities and white working-class communities have suffered disproportionately from the crisis due to sustained exposure to toxic land, air, and water, creating a new urgency for addressing underlying conditions of systemic racism and poverty in North America. In addition to exploring the historical roots of the Environmental Justice movement in the 1980s and 1990s, the volume offers coverage of recent events such as the DAPL pipeline controversy, the Flint water crisis, and the rise of climate justice. The collection incorporates the experiences of rural and urban communities, Alaska Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Race, Place, and Environmental Justice in the United States 1. Urban Environmental Justice Movements in the United States 2. Resilience at the Periphery: North America’s Non-Urban Environmental Justice Movements 3. Intercultural Alliances Part 2: Indigenous Movements and Environmental Justice in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean 4. Environmental Justice in Hawaiʻi and Oceania 5. Alaska Native Environmental Activism 6. Indigenous Peoples in Canada and Beyond: The Inuit Circumpolar Council’s Climate Change Advocacy Work 7. Ecocide, Ethnic Rights, and Extractivism: Struggles for Environmental Justice in Mexico 8. Plundered Paradise: The Puerto Rican Struggle Against Environmental Colonialism Part 3: Environmental Justice, Climate Justice, and Sustainability 9. Indigenous Environmental Justice, Renewable Energy Transition, and the Infrastructure of Sovereignty 10. The Food Justice Movement 11. "We Are Missing Our Lessons to Teach You One": Youth Activists on the Frontlines of Climate Justice

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Book SynopsisIn this third edition of Anthropology and Climate Change, Susan Crate and Mark Nuttall offer a collection of chapters that examine how anthropologists work on climate change issues with their collaborators, both in academic research and practicing contexts, and discuss new developments in contributions to policy and adaptation at different scales. Building on the first edition's pioneering focus on anthropology's burgeoning contribution to climate change research, policy, and action, as well as the second edition's focus on transformations and new directions for anthropological work on climate change, this new edition reveals the extent to which anthropologists' contributions are considered to be critical by climate scientists, policymakers, affected communities, and other rights-holders. Drawing on a range of ethnographic and policy issues, this book highlights the work of anthropologists in the full range of contexts as scholars, educators, and practitioners from academiTrade Review"This third edition of Anthropology and Climate Change is an excellent assemblage of articles and case studies exploring the reorientations required for fully capturing the multiple and complexly intertwined challenges of climate change, the need to reconfigure through a process of world-making different ways (worlds) of envisioning how we relate to one another and to our environments, and finally, the problems and pitfalls that occur when global policy fails to recognize local capacities and vulnerabilities. Challenging the neoliberal logic that negates the possibility of other possible futures, essentially construing neoliberal capitalism as some ultimate stage of human evolution (Baschet 2003), the authors assert that anthropology thus must tap into the full array of resources, past, contemporary and imagined, for guides for creating alternative futures beyond the current relentless construction of risk. Framing the focus of the third edition with the subtitle "From Transformations to World-Making," Crate and Nuttall and the various authors contend that if climate change doesn't move us toward imagining other worlds (ways) than current neoliberal approaches, we never will, and the consequences will be catastrophic. The third edition of Anthropology and Climate Change moves that discussion significantly forward."Anthony Oliver-Smith, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of FloridaTable of ContentsIntroduction: from transformations to worldmaking Susan A. Crate and Mark Nuttall Part 1: Reorientations 1. The arc of the Anthropocene: deep-time perspectives from environmental archaeology 2. Re-fielding climate change in cultural anthropology 3. A picaresque critique: the anthropology of disasters and displacement in the era of global warming and pandemics 4. Understanding Arctic melt: reflections on collaborative interdisciplinary research 5. ‘Knowing’ climate: engaging vernacular narratives of change Part 2: Worldmaking Practices 6. “Don’t look down:” green technologies, climate change, and mining 7. Getting it right: What needs to be done to ensure First Nations’ participation and benefit from large-scale renewable energy developments on Country? 8. Whither the winds of change? Worldmaking winds and seasonal disruptions in the northern Chilean Andes 9. The water obliges: climate change and worldmaking practices in Peru 10. Climate actions with a lagniappe: coastal restoration, flood risk reduction, sacred site protection, and Tribal communities' resilience 11. Climate change as colonial echo in the Canadian Arctic 12. On new ground: tracing human-muskox reconfigurations in Greenland 13. The disappearing free reindeer: unexpected consequences of climate change for Fennoscandian reindeer herding 14. Sakha and alaas: place attachment and cultural identity in a time of climate change 15. A reflexive approach to climate change engagement with Sherpas from Khumbu and Pharak in northeastern Nepal (Mount Everest Region) Part 3: Interventions 16. Why we need to pay attention to wealth and inequality in lowering carbon emissions 17. Decarbonization and making the energy future in the Welsh underlands 18. Representation and luck: reflections on climate and collaboration in Shishmaref, Alaska 19. Agricultural intensification in Northern Burkina Faso: smallholder adaptation to climate change 20. Anthropological contributions to IPCC assessment work 21. Negotiating science and policy in international climate assessments 22. From “lone ranger” to team player: the role of anthropology in training a new generation of climate adaptation professionals 23. Climate counter-hegemony: crafting an anthropological climate politics through student-faculty collaborations in the classroom and on the streets 24. Caiyugluku: pulling from within to meet the challenges in a rapidly changing Arctic 25. Culture and heritage in climate conversations: reflections on connection culture, heritage and climate change

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Book SynopsisSustainability Communication across Asia distils the core components of environmental communication in the diverse milieu of Asian nations such as Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and China.The chapters in this book engage readers in a clear-sighted view of issues, challenges, and strategies related to sustainability communication in Asia, examining fundamental principles, digital strategies, and the role of language, as well as community engagement. The first part of the book features underpinning ideologies of sustainability communication. The authors go on to explore the prevalent trends and approaches in sustainable communication in the digital realm, examining the internet in general, social media, and gaming platforms. Finally, the book discusses the green efforts adopted among selected Asian communities, the role of communication, and the resulting societal impacts. Readers will be introduced to many related examples of Asian sustainability caseTable of ContentsTable of contentsAbout the contributorsIntroductionChapter 1Sustainability Communication: West vs AsiaBy Mohamad Saifudin Mohamad SalehChapter 2Language and Sustainability CommunicationBy Shaidatul Akma Adi KasumaChapter 3The Roles of the Sharing Economy in Promoting Sustainability Communication and Practices in ChinaBy Zhang Tong, Huang Miao, and Mohamad Saifudin Mohamad SalehChapter 4Strategic Sustainability Communication Model of the Listed Companies in the Stock Exchange of ThailandBy Rittipol KuntasuwunChapter 5Persuasion in Sustainability Communication: A Study of Penang Green Council’s InitiativesBy Debbita Tan Ai Lin and Shaidatul Akma Adi KasumaChapter 6Ideating Sustainability Content in Social MediaBy Nur Atikah A RahmanChapter 7Into the Practices of Malaysian Gaming Influencers: Do They Promote Sustainable Development?By Nurzali IsmailChapter 8Virtual Exhibition of Indonesian Geopark as a Sustainability Communication EffortBy Eli Jamilah Mihardja, Togu S. Pardede, and Nurul Selen Azizah ASPChapter 9Gamification and Sustainable Behaviour: A Case Study of ChinaBy Huang Miao, Mohamad Saifudin Mohamad Saifudin and Izzal Asnira ZolkepliChapter 10Factors Encouraging Journalists in Pursuing Sustainability CommunicationBy Anna Agustina and Adnan HusseinChapter 11Community Radio and Climate Change in IndonesiaBy Emilia Bassar and ImpronChapter 12Towards Sustainability in Corporate Social ResponsibilityBy Suriati Saad, Jamilah Ahmad & Mahadevan KrishnanChapter 13Edutainment in Sustainability: Can Sustainability Communication also be Fun? By Mohamad Saifudin Mohamad SalehChapter 14Communicating Science Information to the Fishing Community in the PhilippinesBy Joesyl Marie V. de la Cruz-Aranas, Rona Dhel Cabrias-Alingasa, and Daryl Lustracion SuperioConclusionIndex

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Book SynopsisMuseums and Societal Collapse explores the implications of societal collapse from a multidisciplinary perspective and considers the potential museums have to contribute to the reimagining and transitioning of a new society with the threat of collapse.Arguing that societal collapse is underway, but that total collapse is not inevitable, Janes maintains that museums are well-positioned to mitigate and adapt to the disruptions of societal collapse. As institutions of the commons, belonging to and affecting the public at large, he contends that museums are both responsible and capable of contributing to the durability and well-being of individuals, families, and communities, and enhancing societal resilience in the face of critical issues confronting our species. Within the pages of this groundbreaking book, Janes demonstrates how museums and their staff, as key civic resources with ethical responsibilities, can examine the meaning and value of their work, how that work Trade Review"When people think of museums, many imagine dusty repositories for the art and artifacts of bygone civilizations. Not so Robert Janes. To Janes, museums should represent the whole of time's arrow—past is prologue to the present which serves as harbinger to the future. Janes argues that museums can (re)organize, using what we know today to nudge humanity away from the black holes of despair toward the brightest stars in the constellation of future possibilities."William Rees, University of British Columbia"Janes is an unflinching truth teller who eschews pressures to make museums more like corporations and retains his brave, visionary, and practical view of museums. He explores how we can use these vital sites to grapple with the existential threats of the Anthropocene. Museums and Societal Collapse is challenging. But it also illuminates useful work in museums as a path forward."Elena Gonzales, Chicago History Museum"Why should museum practitioners care about societal collapse? And, why should readers aware of global survival-level crises like climate change care about museums? Humanity’s rich cultural legacy is endangered by the converging predicaments of the 21st century, and it is largely up to museums to ensure that future generations have access to that legacy. Robert Janes lucidly and bravely explores how museums can aid cultural survival in a time of polycrisis."Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute"All of Janes' books are milestones in thinking about the museum, its role, and its evolution. Museums and Societal Collapse addresses for the first time, abruptly, a topic related to the possible vanishing of our civilization. Global warming, resource depletion, increasing inequalities and conflicts provide the breeding ground for a radical world’s metamorphosis. The role that museums can play in mitigating the effects of these transformations is at the heart of the author's concerns: a book that must be read."François Mairesse, Université Sorbonne nouvelle"Robert R. Janes has been challenging museums—and their workers—for decades to improve their internal cultures in order to better serve communities. Museums and Societal Collapse expands Janes’s scope and challenge to what role museums must play in a world whose accelerating collapse may render museums obsolete. Museum workers who are ready to serve communities in regenerating civil society, and to move past hope to action, must read this book."Robert J Weisberg, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and creator of the Museum Human blog "I feel obligated to write this book’ writes Robert Janes - and it is one for which there is absolute need. Multiple crises are converging and just as museums have not faced up to 'climate grief', and 'societal breakdown', neither has the museum literature. Janes challenges the 'immorality of inaction' in museums, while weaving in personal experience and reflection. He challenges all of us in museums to examine our personal values and those of our institutions. This is a very necessary and urgent wake-up call by a globally respected museum leader and elder."Bernadette Lynch, Founder of the Solidarity in Action Network, museum practitioner and scholarTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Harbingers of collapse 2. The anatomy of collapse 3. The myth of sustainability 4. Why museums? 5. The museum as lifeboat 6. Afterthoughts 7. Coda

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Book SynopsisMany emerging economies are on the front line of the devastating impacts of global warming such as desertification and extreme weather events, but, for historical and political reasons, they follow ambitious growth targets with seemingly little concern for climate change and environmental degradation. Focusing on the case of Turkey, this book investigates the economic impacts of possible climate change policies to help meet the required mitigation targets and transition to a low carbon economy. In order to reach net-zero targets by 2050 in compliance with the Paris Agreement, Turkey must introduce policies that promote low carbon investments, green jobs and low carbon employment more broadly. This book explores the empirical evidence on the effectiveness of a carbon pricing mechanism by developing an econometric vector autoregression (VAR) model to analyse key data sets. This time series analysis provides insights on a macro level, dealing with aggregate data in which the role and compTable of Contents1 Introduction 2 The Concept of Transition to Low Carbon Economy 3 Macroeconomics of the Environmental Policy in Turkey 4 Empirical Analysis 5 Conclusions Appendices

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a series of pedagogical experiments translating climate science, environmental humanities, material research, ecological practices into the architectural curriculum. Balancing the science and humanities, it exposes recent pedagogical experiments from renown educators, while also interrogating a designerâs agency between science and speculation in the face of climate uncertainty. The teaching experiments are presented across four sections: Abstraction, Organization, Building, and Narrative, exposing core parts of an architectâs education and how educators can simultaneously provide fundamental skills and constructive literacy while instigating environmental sensibilities. Chapters cover issues such as an unstable hydrosphere, water infrastructure, remediating materials, methods of disassembly and adaptive reuse, as well as constructing new aesthetic categories of climate change, and implementing oral histories of construction, among many others.WritteTable of ContentsSection I: Abstraction. Section introduction 1. Experimenting with Dynamic Models : Expanding intuition for spatio-temporal Processes 2. Constructing New Aesthetic Categories of Climate Change 3. Deep Time and Architecture: Restoring Connections between Architecture and Environment Implications 4. Matter and Energy Over Nature and Climat; Approaching Architecture as a Science of Spatial Composition Section II: Organization. Section introduction 5. Unstable Waters : Rethinking design pedagogy to address the instability of the Hydrosphere 6. Solar Sculpting : Investigating the relationship between building Form and Energy Performance 7. Palm House : Investigating the distribution of industrial horticulture in Architecture buildings 8. The Water Dilemma : Descaling water infrastructure Section III: Building Section introduction 9. Natural Building Materials in Architecture Pedagogy : Challenging Conventions Hands on 10. Thermally Active Concrete : Researching remediating Materials 11. Airscapes: Constructing with Dynamic Pneumatics and the ecology of air 12. Material Circulation by Design: From Mining Modernism to Radical Reuse Section IV: Narratives. Section introduction 13. Moving Narratives: Design Pedagogies and Nomadic-Pastoralist Traditions 14. Built Environment as Palimpsest : Disassembly, Reassembly, Recycling, towards experimental Preservation 15. A Theory of Architecture Through the Geologic-Atmospheric Axis, or, Sections as Axis Mundi and Cosmograms 16. Doubt, Rapture, Power and Knowledge: A Four-Part Reflection on Architectural Education Coda: Elephant in the Room: A Fable for Tomorrow

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Book SynopsisDiscover new ways to help elementary students engage with and understand the world around them through place-based, hope-filled learning about the causes, impacts, and responses to climate change. This book features foundational climate concepts, easily implementable activity plans, and inspiring examples of student engagement. Each chapter begins with a short vignette pulled from the author's considerable teaching experience in engaging students in concepts of climate change and climate justice, followed by content-focused sections and recommendations for student activities and projects. The author provides stories of hope-filled action to invite teachers to look for and reflect on similar narratives in their own communities. Sample units of study for grades K-5 show teachers how key ideas from each chapter come together into an instructional plan that incorporates the three dimensions of NGSS and can fit into the broader outline of their school year. This resource is an accessibleTable of Contents1. Do Little Kids Really Need to Be Thinking About Climate Change? 2. Interconnectedness. 3. The Carbon Cycle: Exploring Systems Through Story. 4. Getting To Know Trees and Forest Systems. 5. The Ocean As A Global System. 6. Cities: Human and Natural Systems Working Together. 7. The Food We Eat And The Food We Waste. 8. (Sustainable) Energy. 9. When Harm Comes to Our Communities: Teaching and Learning in the Presence of Natural and Human Disasters. 10. Toward a Pedagogy of Hope-Filled Action

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Book SynopsisWritten by one of the leading experts in the field, Paul Ekins, Stopping Climate Change provides a comprehensive overview of what is required to achieve real zero' carbon dioxide emissions by 2050, and negative emissions thereafter, which is the only way to stop human- induced climate change.This will require innovation in socio-technical systems, and in human behaviour, on an unprecedented scale. Stopping Climate Change describes the changes required to meet this goal: in technologies, social institutions and individual activities. Paul Ekins examines in detail issues around the supply and demand of energy and materials, and the efficiency of their use. It also analyses greenhouse gas removal technologies, offsetting and geoengineering, and plots the reduction of the non- CO2 greenhouse gas-emitting activities. Having set out the changes required, Ekins considers the economic implications, in terms of both the innovation and investments that are necessary tTrade Review“Professor Ekins gives us the information that we need and does so in a clear, detailed, and authoritative way. It is the handbook that even the most informed will find invaluable but which, at the same time, is wholly accessible to the widest of audiences. Nobody, whether they are already seriously involved or just want to understand the issues for the first time, should be without Stopping Climate Change. I will certainly have it close at hand as the battle to save the planet continues with increasing urgency."From the Foreword by the Rt. Hon. The Lord Deben, Chairman of the UK Climate Change Committee, 2012-2023“Building on decades of experience, Paul Ekins sets out concisely in this book the science, the politics and the possibilities for zero greenhouse gas emissions. For anyone wanting to get to grips with the climate action challenge in a single read, this book meets your needs in a characteristically clear fashion, spiced with the author’s opinions and insights.”Jim Skea, Professor of Sustainable Energy, Imperial College London"With academic rigor and razor sharp clarity, this heroic effort of covering the entire climate change challenge, from risks, impacts to policy and pathways to a safe landing for humanity, is not only commendable. It is a must read for all in search of realistic light in the rapidly darkening climate tunnel." Johan Rockström, Professor of Earth System Science and Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research“Paul Ekins has been an astute, incisive and outspoken commentator of climate change policy for many years. In this book, he puts forward a comprehensive and convincing blueprint for tackling the climate crisis. An essential read for anybody interested in climate change policy”. Sam Fankhauser, Professor of Climate Change Economics and Policy, University of Oxford“In battling climate change, it is crucial to understand the economic implications of different policies and courses of action. Paul Ekins provides a key intervention for those engaged in these issues.”Karen Turner, Professor and Director of the Centre for Energy Policy, University of Strathclyde“A comprehensive survey of the state of the climate debate is very welcome and much needed. Professor Ekins spells out what is happening and what is not, and explains what could and should be done - to deliver real net zero and genuine climate security. This book should be essential reading for everyone concerned to find a practical solution to the climate challenge.”Nick Butler, Visiting Professor and founder of the Policy Institute, King’s College London.“Paul Ekins is uniquely qualified to take on the task of producing what is a ‘tour de force’ that covers all of the critical issues that need to be addressed to stop climate change. In this book he moves from the causes and consequences of climate change to a comprehensive assessment of the technological solutions and societal challenges that need to be overcome, from low carbon energy to GHG removal and the need for a more secure and sustainable food system. In short ‘Stopping Climate Change’ provides a much needed ‘one stop shop’ to understanding, as he puts it, one of the greatest issues of our time.”Michael Bradshaw, Professor of Global Energy, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick“This is a very important book for anyone concerned about climate change. In effect, it is a complete briefing about everything – the causes, the science and the remedies be they policy or our personal and technological choices. Paul Ekins has managed to tell a complicated story in a way that is understandable and helpful for ‘non-expert’ activists like me, and with a rigour that will satisfy his academic colleagues too.”Sara Parkin, Co-Founder, Forum for the Future“When it comes to climate change, Paul Ekins has been reflecting, analysing, advocating, weighing the evidence and supporting policy-makers for a very long time. That depth of expertise and knowledge informs every chapter of “Stopping Climate Change”, but the real story is in the subtitle: “Policies for Real Zero” (my emphasis!) to distinguish it from all the superficial or downright dishonest hype about “Net Zero”! It’s so important to hear it from the real expert.”Jonathon Porritt, environmental campaigner“A comprehensive and unflinching view of the scale of the climate challenge we face, but one that examines real solutions that must be implemented. Balanced and thoughtful, its content will reward both policy makers and general readers alike.”Philip Sellwood, CEO, Energy Saving Trust (2003-2020)“I have long regarded Paul Ekins as an oracle of climate policy, and he does not disappoint in his new book. His dispassionate, meticulously researched summary of the decarbonisation challenge cuts through confusion and lays out the facts. It will be required reading for my students, and for anyone wanting a concise, real-world account of the task ahead.”Rebecca Willis, Professor in Energy and Climate Governance, Lancaster University“What a tour de force! An amazingly comprehensive, cohesive and insightful analysis of what’s needed for net zero and the current state of play on all these solutions.”Karen Ellis, Chief Economist, WWF-UK“This book is comprehensible to non-experts and has a strong focus on the key issue – what needs to be done to stop climate change. Paul Ekins has used his broad knowledge to set out a clear route map, whilst remaining realistic about the likely rate of political action.”Nick Eyre, Professor of Energy and Climate Policy, University of Oxford“If you only read one book about the climate crisis read this one. Informed by many years of direct involvement with climate policy, the book covers all aspects of the technology, policy and market developments needed to solve the climate problem. It deals in detail with the economic and societal requirements for change. The overriding messages are that we have the tools available, that change is both possible and can bring many benefits. I sincerely hope that decision makers around the world take notice.”Rob Gross, Professor and Director of the UK Energy Research CentreTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: Why real zero? Chapter 2: The global context and pathways to net zeroChapter 3 Energy efficiency, the ‘first fuel’Chapter 4: Kicking the addiction to fossil fuelsChapter 5: The future is electricChapter 6: Filling the gaps with bioenergy and hydrogenChapter 7: Carbon capture, use, storage and removal, and geoengineeringChapter 8: The great enablers: Digitalisation, the circular economy and critical minerals for the clean energy transitionChapter 9: Decarbonisation of buildings, transport and industryChapter 10: Feeding the world, reducing wasteChapter 11: Economics of climate mitigationChapter 12: Policy and deliveryChapter 13: Conclusions Index

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Book SynopsisThis innovative and practical book offers pedagogical tools to show how drama can be used in educational settings to advance a relational, action-oriented, interdisciplinary and creative climate education attuned to the social and emotional effects of the climate emergency. Based on a six-year ethnographic research study taking place with teachers, artists, community leaders and young people globally, and taking its lead from the following provocation can performance become a site for new imaginaries for socio-ecological justice? the book explores the unique conceptual and pedagogical discontents' of climate education across geographically and culturally distinct sites of learning. It also examines how artful engagement through drama pedagogies can open up more collective, critical, and hopeful forms of thinking and being.The book is divided into two sections. The first part of the book, Local Engagements and Encounters, consists of chapters that conduct an in

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Book SynopsisEnergy Capitolexplores the waning of regulatory politics surrounding large-scale energy systems in the United States at the turn of the millennium.Throughout the twentieth century, large-scale energy systems in North America and Europe were highly regulated by a national political community whose decision-making authority relied on positions of bureaucratic and capitalist-led industry organization. After restructuring in energy markets such as natural gas and electricity during the 1980s, the culture of power surrounding political decision-making began to decline. Against this backdrop, Arthur Mason examines the struggle by oil companies and federal-state agencies to deliver natural gas from Alaska and Canada''s Mackenzie Valley to markets in mid-continental United States, highlighting regulatory collusion to advance their plans.Mason employs perspectives from anthropology, political science, sociology, and science and technology studies to analyse ethnographic data ga

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Book SynopsisThis book explores some of the conditions and underlying causes of the multiple environmental crises facing humanity. Rooted in anthropology, but multidisciplinary in scope, it surveys the many socio-cultural and socio-economic errors, foibles, and follies that brought us to these circumstances. Crucially and uniquely, it outlines an array of viable and practical solutions, some of which are radically different from the current status quo and cultural expectations. The first chapter canvasses the emerging, interdisciplinary field of political ecology, then Part I examines details and trends in agriculture. Part II portrays the threats posed by carbon dependent and combustive technologies as well as the hydro and nuclear energy systems now powering the majority of human actions in developed parts of the world and expanding beyond. The third part turns to consider solutions, including green new deals, de-growth policies, localization, agroecology, alternative energy systems, and many more possibilities. The conclusions engage with urgent moral and legal issues and outline social movement strategiesâall related to our collective neglect of climate changeâand then finally speculate upon possible futures. This book is key reading for researchers and students interested in climate change across the social and physical sciences and humanities.

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Book SynopsisAs the world considers how to deal with the impacts of a changing climate, it's vital that we understand the ways in which the United States' policymaking process addresses environmental issues. A mix of existing theory and original analysis, Environmental Policymaking in an Era of Climate Change applies recent policy scholarship to questions of environmental governance, with a particular focus on climate change. The book examines how competing political actors influence policies within and across institutions, focusing on both a macro-level, where formal bodies set the agenda, and a meso-level, where issues are contained within policy subsystems.Divided into two sections, the book incorporates insights from political science and public policy to provide the reader with a better understanding of how environmental policy decisions are made. Part I offers a framework for understanding environmental policymaking, exploring the history of environmental Trade Review"Invoking the language of markets, Nowlin’s volume provides a comprehensive framework for understanding environmental policymaking. This work is rare in its comprehensiveness, thoughtfully mapping the interrelated roles of policy actors within varied institutions and across levels of government, while also providing ample empirical evidence showing how agendas are constructed and why polarization is occurring, among a plethora of other findings. One of the most complete pictures of US environmental policy I have seen and a must for the bookshelves of both academics and advocates." -- Michael Jones, Oregon State University, USA"The inability, or unwillingness, of the US government to address climate change in a meaningful way is a source of puzzlement and frustration for those who see climate change as the central human problem of our time. Nowlin offers students, scholars, and practitioners an insightful and readable framework for understanding our failure to act. His appraisal of contemporary environmental policymaking is both well-grounded and sobering." -- Megan Mullin, Duke University, USA"This is a great book! It offers a framework for understanding policy making and climate change, integrates theoretical insights, and brings to bear rich empirical data to ground its comprehensive coverage. Readers will leave this book with a structured way of thinking about the political challenges associated with climate change and what the future might hold." -- Christopher M. Weible, University of Colorado, USATable of ContentsPART I Foundations 1. Introduction2. A Framework for Environmental Policymaking3. The Green State and the Climate Change Era4. Value Systems and Environmental PolicyPART II The Environmental Policymaking System and Climate Policy5. Agenda-Setting and Issue Definitions in Climate Change Policymaking6. Pathways and Pivots: Macro- Institutions and Climate Change Policy7. The Networked Subsystems, Institutions, and Actors of the Climate Change Regime8. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisWhat explains our attitudes towards the environment? Why do so many climate change initiatives fail? How can we do more to prevent humans damaging the environment?The Psychology of Climate Change explores the evidence for our changing environment, and suggests that there are significant cognitive biases in how we think about, and act on climate change. The authors examine how organisations have attempted to mobilise the public in the fight against climate change, but these initiatives have often failed due to the public's unwillingness to adapt their behaviour. The book also explores why some people deny climate change altogether, and the influence that these climate change deniers can have on global action to mitigate further damage.By analysing our attitudes to the environment, The Psychology of Climate Change argues that we must think differently about climate change to protect our planet, as a matter of great urgency.Table of Contents1. Introduction: The science and politics of climate change 2. The great climate change ‘debate’, and why this has been so damaging 3. Cognitive biases in our thinking about climate change. 4. Climate change initiatives, and why they failed. 5. Assessing our real attitudes to climate change. 6. How might we change underlying implicit attitudes? 7. Future challenges

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Book SynopsisAt a time when it is clear that climate change adaptation and mitigation are failing, this book examines how our assumptions about (valid and usable) knowledge are preventing effective climate action. Through a cross-disciplinary, empirically-based analysis of climate science and policy, the book situates the failures of climate policy in the cultural history of prediction and its interfaces with policy. Fava calls into question the current interfaces between scientific research and climate policy by tracing multiple connections between modelling, epistemology, politics, food security, religion, art, and the apocalyptic. Demonstrating how the current domination of climate policy by models and scenarios is part of the problem, the book examines how artistic practices are a critical location to ask questions differently, rethink environmental futures, and activate social change. The analysis starts with another moment of climatic change in recent western history: the overlap of the LiTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. Deadly Weather: Narratives of Nature and Agency During the Little Ice Age 2. Counting the Days: John Napier’s Exegesis and Mathematics 3. Drawing the End: Inigo Jones’s Banqueting House 4. Assembling the Worldmachine: Mathematical Modelling of Climate Change 5. Imagining Futures: The Special Report on Emission Scenarios 6. Creating One Future: The Doomsday Vault 7. Reclaiming Futures: Olafur Eliasson’s Weather Project

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Book SynopsisThis book does not set out once more to raise the alarm to encourage us to take radical measures to head off climate chaos. There have been any number of books and reports in recent years explaining just how dire the future looks and how little time we have left to act. This book is about why we have ignored those warnings, and why it is now too late. It is a book about the frailties of the human species as expressed in both the institutions we built and the psychological dispositions that have led us on the path of self-destruction. It is about our strange obsessions, our hubris, and our penchant for avoiding the facts. It is the story of a battle within us between the forces that should have caused us to protect the Earth - our capacity to reason and our connection to Nature - and those that, in the end, have won out - our greed, materialism and alienation from Nature. And it is about the 21st century consequences of these failures. Clive Hamilton is author of the bestselling AffTrade Review'Listen to this Requiem and weep, if it helps. False hope is as dangerous as despair. But don't get mired in helplessness. Above all, Requiem is a call to arms; to the urgent task of overhauling democracy in pursuit of survival. At stake, the biggest prize of all: our own humanity.' Tim Jackson, author of Prosperity Without Growth 'I am afraid Clive Hamilton has it right about climate change - deeply afraid. Requiem is a brave and searingly honest book by a brilliant scholar. Ignoring it will only make a bad situation worse, so, please, read this book now.' James Gustave Speth, author of The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability and Dean Emeritus, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies 'Requiem for a Species is a remarkable publication which brings together the scientific imperatives of taking action in the field of climate change. Hamilton highlights the political inertia which is currently acting as a roadblock. In the wake of the weak outcome of Copenhagen, this book assumes added significance in breaking the resistance to the truth about climate change.' R K Pachauri, Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Director-General, TERI 'I find it hard to imagine what life would be like if I had genuinely come to the irrevocable conclusion that it was too late to do anything serious about preventing runaway climate change� For me, this ongoing internal dialogue gets a little bit more painful, every year � And having just finished reading Clive Hamilton's excellent (but deeply disturbing!) Requiem for a Species, I'm now going to have to think it all through all over again.' Jonathon Porritt, Founder, Forum for the Future, and author of Capitalism As if the World Matters 'Requiem offers an insightful and informative look at why the human species can't come to terms with a changing climate. And Hamilton's conclusion--To despair, accept, then act--is an important call for us to respond to climate change immediately and decisively or spend the rest of our lives reacting to a warming world and an unraveling civilization.' Erik Assadourian, Director: State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures: From Consumerism to Sustainability and Senior Researcher, Worldwatch Institute 'Clive Hamilton investigates - in real time - our society's choice not to act to protect ourselves from devastating climate change. We know the science, but 'scientific facts are fighting against more powerful forces' - power, money, bureaucratic inertia and our innate desire to ignore what we don't want to believe. 'It's too late,' he says. 'Humanity failed.' That past tense is devastating.' Fred Pearce, writer and author of The Last Generation: How Nature will take her Revenge for Climate Change 'Hamilton's book presents a powerful statement of the problems confronting us - not just the problem of climate change itself, but the tendency to wish the problem away by denial (which in less extreme circumstances can arguably be an adaptive response to difficult situations). And all compounded by the fact that neither our institutions nor we ourselves have experience in acting on behalf of a seemingly distant future. Read this book.' Robert M May OM AC FRS 'When future generations look out on a planet ravaged by climate change, they will ask of our generation 'When you knew what was happening--surely the greatest debacle since we came out of our caves--why didn't you stop it?' Clive Hamilton proposes the problem lies with 'the perversity of our institutions, our psychological dispositions, our strange obsessions, our penchant for avoiding facts, and, especially, our hubris.' It all makes for a riveting read because (alas) it is all too true--just like Greek tragedy.' Norman Myers, 21st Century School, University of Oxford 'Requiem for a Species magnificently captures the idea that by and large, none of us want to believe that climate change is real. It explains our inability to seriously weigh the evidence of climate change, and to take appropriate action to ensure our own survival.' Tim Costello, CEO, World Vision Australia 'Clive Hamilton, as usual, has courageously challenged the current nature of our society in this inspirational new book.' Graeme Pearman, former head of the CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research 'Books that change one's life are rare... Requiem is a tour de force of compression and analysis that cannot help but shift climate change thinking.' Andres Kabel, Cultural Pilgrim (www.andreskabel.com) 'Requiem for a Species is a call to immediate action. It should be sent to every elected official at each level of government. All concerned citizen should read it in order to hold government and industry accountable for knowing the facts, altering policy, and developing clean technologies-not at some later point in time but now. The future looks grim; but, as Hamilton says, action is the best cure for despair. It may also be our only hope.' Courier Mail 'Well worth reading by anyone who takes a serious interest in climate change. It's concise, accessible, and full of insights and information which I suspect most readers will find new and revealing.' Permaculture Magazine 'Requiem for a Species is recommended for those who want to get a clearer picture of the science of climate change' Camilla Royle, Socialist Review 'Anyone even superficially concerned about climate change would fo well to read CLive Hamilton's Requiem for a Species...highly entertaining and excellently sources book' Talitha Haller, Ecosystem Marketplace. 'Even more strongly, Hamilton argues that humans have become docile puppets of the growth-focused system and that only those 'who have internalized the goals of the system most faithfully' become political leaders.' Climate Policy 'Hamilton advises that we grieve appropriately. That is, we should despair about the failure of humanity to prevent the climate change problem from reaching current levels, we should accept the new vision of the future that this entails and the need to transform our previous way of life, and we should act to make the best of the situation as we can. Unlike other drier reports and softly spoken analyses of climate change, this book frankly communicates the urgency of the problem, and I hope many people read it.' Katie Steele, Climate Law. 'As Hamilton so convincingly demonstrates, climate change is not only an inconvenient, but a distressing and fundamentally life-changing, truth. When faced with facts so alien to our ideology, we experience 'cognitive dissonance', and become almost incapable of accepting the evidence before us. So if, psychologically, humans as a species were never able to deal with the threat of climate change, is anyone really to blame? Well, Hamilton lays the blame firmly with the corporations.' Green World 'Requiem for a Species by Clive Hamilton was chosen as the May 2010 Book of the Month on my website, www.globalforesightbooks.org. Very important book.' Michael Marien, Editor, GlobalForesightBooks.org 'Anyone concerned with global affairs, facing up to climate change, and long-term futures should read this book' Michael Marien, Editor, GlobalForesightBooks.org 'Refreshing in its candour, clearly-written and well-sourced, Requiem for a Species is a landmark polemic. So while it is undoubtedly an important book for activists, it is clear humanity's future depends on those who are currently not involved in climate activism reading and acting on the facts and arguments contained within. Spread the word.' Ian Sinclair, Peace News "This book succeeds in revealing why we have ignored the scientific warnings of climate change. Hamilton analyses the science and underlying reasons for global warming with an appropriate blend of dispassion and compassion." -Suzanne Simard, PhD, RPF, BC Forest Professional MagazineTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface 1. No Escaping the Science 2. Growth Fetishism 3. The Consumer Self 4. Many Forms of Denial 5. Disconnection from Nature 6. Is There a Way Out? 7. The Four-Degree World 8. Reconstructing a Future Appendix: Greenhouse Gases Notes Index

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Book SynopsisWhat is environmental virtue? Is developing good habits enough? What does climate justice require? Is ecological restoration just another form of the human domination of nature?Exploring these questions and more, this book provides an up-to-date and balanced introduction to environmental ethics. It first examines ethical theory, then ties theory to practice, showing how values guide environmental policies, but also how policies and institutions shape environmental values. Updated and expanded to engage with the latest scholarship, scientific findings, and societal challenges, this 2nd edition features: New sections on food ethics, multispecies justice, intergenerational ethics, and the Anthropocene Contemporary case studies focusing on the rights of nature, the use of biotechnology in ecological restoration, and just climate transitions Expanded coverage of diverse philosophical traditions, including Confucian, Daoist, and Indigenous ethical perspectives Trade ReviewHourdequin writes with clarity, depth, and passion, so the book is suitable for nonspecialists. * K. Doran, Hamilton College, CHOICE (of the first edition) *What most distinguishes this text ... is its emphasis on practical action ... [Hourdequin] presents a diversity of views sympathetically, explains them accurately and assesses them fairly. * Environmental Values (of the first edition) *The great strength of the text is the variety of ethical approaches on offer ... Houdequin's book serves as a solid and broad introductory textbook to environmental ethics at an intermediate or senior undergraduate level. * Ethical Perspectives (of the first edition) *This well-written book works both as an introductory text as well as a review of the topic. The arguments and examples are helpful both for those readers interested in the theoretical background as well as for those more interested in the applied aspects. The examples are well chosen and well presented. * Ethical Theory and Moral Practice (of the first edition) *Hourdequin's book addresses environmental ethics from theory to practice through a series of well-structured and thought-provoking chapters. ... [It] stand[s] out from the present-day rich panorama of works regarding environmental ethics and may significantly mark the horizon of future publications in the field. * Ethics, Policy & Environment (of the first edition) *It is outstanding and commendable as a textbook for both undergraduate and postgraduate alike ... In short, the book is a pleasure to read ... Written at a level that any intelligent layperson will appreciate and enjoy. It is an ideal basic introductory to environmental ethics ... The book is essential reading. * International Studies in the Philosophy of Science (of the first edition) *In addition to discussing the usual topics and themes, in this engaging new introduction to environmental ethics Marion Hourdequin draws on the insights of Chinese philosophy and focuses on such issues of contemporary concern as climate change, ecological restoration and the problem of defining sustainability. * Dale Jamieson, Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy, New York University, USA (of the first edition) *Few philosophers and fewer environmental scientists could have written a book that combines a solid grasp of real ethical theory, a full understanding of the current state of the science, and the wisdom that Marion Hourdequin brings to Environmental Ethics. This work is not only an utterly accessible introduction to the field, but a magisterial assessment of the inescapable alternatives it confronts us with. * Alex Rosenberg, R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy Department of Philosophy, Duke University, USA (of the first edition) *This engaging and comprehensive introduction to environmental ethics combines directness and clarity with a depth of analysis and distinctiveness of approach that few texts in the field can match. The result is a feast for inquiring minds, an inspiration and aspiration for active ones; specifically, it helps us understand how an environmental ethic can become a lived ethic. * Alan Holland, Emeritus Professor of Applied Philosophy, Lancaster University, UK (of the first edition) *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Part I: Environmental Values 1. Bringing Values to Light 2. Western Ethical Theories and the Environment 3. Anthropocentrism and its Critics: Broadening Moral Concern 4. The Social Dimensions of Environmental Problems Part II: Environmental Ethics in Practice 5. Ethics, Institutions, and the Environment 6. Global Climate Change 7. Ecological Restoration 8. Engaging Environmental Concern, Promoting Change Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisA leading ecologist argues that if humankind is to survive on a fragile planet, we must understand and obey its iron laws.Trade ReviewRob Dunn sketches an arresting vision of this relentless natural world . . . If we want to know what's coming, then, we would be well advised to familiarize ourselves with them, Dunn argues. To that end, his book functions as a helpful crash course in ecology and, as the title implies, an augur of sorts -- The New York Times Book Review[A] lucid discussion . . . Dunn's absorbing analysis advocates making the most of the few certainties we have -- Scientific AmericanEven if we could halt fossil fuel emissions tomorrow, we would still need to make some big changes. Evolutionary biologist Rob Dunn's timely new book . . . is a guide to this complex problem and offers palatable solutions . . . a clear and important read -- Mary Ellen Hannibal, ScienceA stimulating exploration . . . The author avoids the usual implausible how-to-fix-it conclusion . . . Instead, he offers a book that is less doomsday prophecy and more excellent primer on ecology and evolution. An imaginative, sensible education for those concerned with the fate of the Earth -- Kirkus ReviewsA fascinating, shocking, and inspiring guide to the future by one of the most creative and eloquent biologists of our time. Dunn's book is packed full of insight from the latest scientific discoveries about the wonders and troubles of the living Earth -- David George Haskell, author of The Forest UnseenA timely, thought-provoking analysis, delivered in the affable prose that has become Dunn's hallmark -- Thor Hanson, author of Hurricane Lizards and Plastic SquidSpeciations in weird urban habitats, viruses chasing hosts around the globe, and the greatest challenge life on Earth has faced for two million years: this is the fascinating and sobering ecology of the Anthropocene -- Rebecca Wragg Sykes, author of KindredFive stars . . . it makes the reader think, and there are some truly fascinating ideas about the way species interact with their environment . . . A useful and timely book -- Brian Clegg, Popular ScienceRob Dunn steers our attention toward the biota under our noses as part of a broader project to explicate the circumstances that prompt new life forms, and adaptive behaviors, to appear . . . The biodiversity and versatility on display in the animal kingdom of which we are part have lots to teach us. To remain at home in the world, we too will need to change -- The Atlantic[Dunn argues] people can help mitigate the effects of climate change by valuing "the rest of life" outside humanity, as well as heeding the lessons that other life has to teach. Thoughtful and accessible, this deserves a wide readership -- Publishers WeeklyIn forecasting future ecology, Dunn enlists biological laws to predict what likely lies ahead for life on our planet, including us . . . Dunn engagingly explains biogeography, inventive intelligence, and speedy evolutionary reaction to changing conditions -- Tony Miksanek, Booklist

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOur relationship with nature goes far beyond resources, amenity, or the scientific idea of an archive we learn to read. There are, as The Environment shows, ethical complexities in how we use and abuse the planet—and in how we frame its improbable riches.—NatureDespite the importance in recent decades of environmentalism, environmental protection, environmental science, and so on, there has been strikingly little discussion of what exactly the environment is. Paul Warde, Libby Robin, and Sverker Sörlin examine the history of the concept as it has developed since the end of the Second World War, when they argue it took on its modern significance. The book is strongest in tracing the ways that changes in scientific institutions helped develop the modern idea of environment, as well as in its discussion of the ways that idea entered the popular imagination through works by Rachel Carson and others.—Environmental HistoryThis engaging and accessible book should be required reading for anyone concerned with the development of 'the environment' as a conceptual lodestone of both science and politics in the mid- to late-twentieth century. Moreover, it will be richly rewarding for anyone wishing to teach, research, or simply better understand the path dependencies and political dynamics of environmental issues today.—Local EnvironmentDemonstrates the power of history to speak into the present. A wonderfully succinct, compelling, and revealing piece of writing.—Australian Book ReviewThis is a highly recommended book that agricultural and rural historians will appreciate the significance of in tracing the history of the environment. It will be of interest to a wide academic readership, including historians of the environment, ideas, politics, science and technology. More importantly, this book deserves to be read by the wider public as it explains how perceptions of the environment have evolved relative to the history of the twentieth century. Understanding this history can inform contemporary responses to present and future environmental issues.—Agricultural History ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrologueChapter 1. Road to SurvivalChapter 2. Expertise for the FutureChapter 3. Resources for FreedomChapter 4. Ecology on the MarchChapter 5. Climate Enters the EnvironmentChapter 6. "The Earth Is One but the World Is NotChapter 7. Seeking a Safe FutureNotesBibliographic EssayIndex

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Book SynopsisJoin Joe Shute as he travels across Britain tracing the history of our seasons and discovering how they are changing.We talk about them. We plan our lives around them. The changing seasons are part of us all. But what happens when the weather changes beyond recognition?Joe Shute has spent years unpicking Britain's love affair with the weather, poring over the centuries of folklore, customs and rituals our seasons have inspired.But in recent years Shute has noticed a curious thing: the British seasons are changing far faster and far more profoundly than we realise. Daffodils in December, frogspawn in November, swallows that no longer fly home, floods, wildfires and winters without snow. Nothing is behaving as it should, sending nature into an increasing state of flux.In Forecast, Shute travels all over Britain tracing the history of the seasons, and discovering the extent to which we are now growing disconnected from them. While documenting these warped rhythms caused by tTrade ReviewForecast is the most urgently needed, most important book I have read in a very long time. * Michael Morpurgo *This urgent, elegiac book’s call to mend our broken relationship with the land feels more vital by the day. * Mail on Sunday *With a journalist's eye for detail, he backs up his captivating anecdotal evidence regarding the seasons with the results of solid scientific research to finger the culprit: global warming. * Countryfile *At its core, this book is a love letter to the biosphere and to our bond with it. Joe Shute has a journalist’s ear and a lover’s eye; he demonstrates what one sees while moving across the land, tracking change when all else seemed still. This is no ordinary nature diary – it enlarges our perspective of what has altered, and what is being lost … this is one of the most poignant and affecting nature books I have read this year. * Miriam Darlington *An absolutely beautiful account of life going on while the world stopped. I loved it. * Kate Bradbury *Joe Shute does not rant but, with passion and expertise, illuminates in beautifully clear prose, laced with well-judged literary and historical references, the scale of the threat posed to our natural world by Climate Change. A ‘must read’ for anyone who is curious and who cares. * Jonathan Dimbleby *Joe Shute is one of Britain's finest writers on nature. Or indeed, any other subject. * John Lewis-Stempel *What a wonderful read. Joe has interwoven our national pastime, our obsession about the weather, into a fascinating history of our changing climate through the centuries and its defining influence on our consciousness. Told through the eyes of farmers, poets and philosophers as well as the author’s own personal explorations across the country, Forecast is a beautifully written elegy to our natural world and a warning of how quickly it is changing. * William Sieghart *Table of ContentsChapter 1: A Lockdown Spring Chapter 2: Weather Watch Chapter 3: Storm Clouds Chapter 4: Seasons Past Chapter 5: The Changing Harvest Chapter 6: Exodus Chapter 7: Budburst Chapter 8: Winter Sleep Chapter 9: Muirburn Chapter 10: Melting Chapter 11: Waterland Chapter 12: The Vast Machine Chapter 13: Weather Notes Chapter 14: Solstice Further Reading Acknowledgements Index

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Book SynopsisThe only guide you need to prepare for the dangerous effects of climate change. The world has changed, and impacts of global warming means weather events like extreme heat, wildfires, hurricanes, and droughts are now being felt by all of us. We can ignore climate change no longer and must prepare ourselves to survive in new conditions. The key to surviving extreme weather events is to understand them from a practical perspective and then plan and execute tactical responses. In Surviving Extreme Weather, Mykel Hawke, a renowned survivalist and bestselling author of Hawke?s Special Forces Survival Handbook and Hawke?s Green Beret Survival Manual, and British meteorologist Jim N. R. Dale, share their expert knowledge and personal experiences while offering valuable insights into the science behind our new weather and how to apply situational awareness, preparedness, and psychology to survive.Surviving Extreme Weather: The Complete Climate Change Preparedness Manual is categorized by elements?fire, water, wind, and earth?events are explained with recommendations anyone can follow to protect themselves and their family, and to minimize the risks of damage to life and property. Included are lists of items every person, home, business, and vehicle should always stock, such as: first aid kits, afflictions, and applications; emerging technologies to help protect against different weather phenomena; structural and landscape precautions and improvements; philosophies to help family, friends, and neighbors get through any environmental ordeal.

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Book Synopsis‘Nathaniel Rich’s account starts in Washington in the 1990s and tells the story of how climate change could have been stopped back then, if only the powerful had acted. But they didn’t want to.’ – Observer By 1979, we knew all that we know now about the science of climate change – what was happening, why it was happening, and how to stop it. Over the next ten years, we had the very real opportunity to stop it. Obviously, we failed. Nathaniel Rich tells the essential story of why and how, thanks to the actions of politicians and businessmen, that failure came about. It is crucial to an understanding of where we are today. ‘The excellent and appalling Losing Earth by Nathaniel Rich describes how close we came in the 70s to dealing with the causes of global warming and how US big business and Reaganite politicians in the 80s ensured it didn’t happen. Read it.’ – John Simpson ‘An eloquent science history, and an urgent eleventh-hour call to save what can be saved.’ – Nature ‘To change the future, we must first understand our past, and Losing Earth is a crucial part of that when it comes to the environmental battles we’re facing.’– StylistTrade Review[Rich's] gripping, depressing, revelatory book makes it clear that not only is climate change a tragedy, but that it is also a crime — a thing that bad people knowingly made worse, for their personal gain. -- John Lanchester * New York Times *The excellent and appalling Losing Earth by Nathaniel Rich describes how close we came in the 70s to dealing with the causes of global warming and how US big business & Reaganite politicians in the 80s ensured it didn’t happen. Read it. -- John Simpson (on Twitter)Rich brilliantly relates the story of how, in 1979 . . . policymakers [were alerted] to the existential threat, only to see climate treaties fail in a welter of ‘profit over planet’ a decade later. An eloquent science history, and an urgent eleventh-hour call to save what can be saved. * Nature *To change the future, we must first understand our past, and Losing Earth is a crucial part of that when it comes to the environmental battles we’re facing. * Stylist *Others have documented where we are, and speculated about where we might be headed, but the story of how we got here is perhaps the most important one to be told, because it is both a cautionary tale and an unfinished one. -- Jonathan Safran FoerNathaniel Rich recounts how a crucial decade was squandered. Losing Earth is an important contribution to the record of our heedless age. -- Elizabeth Kolbert[Losing Earth] chronicles the failure of our scientific and political leaders to act to halt the climate apocalypse when they appeared on the verge of doing so, and casts the triumph of denial as the defining moral crisis for humankind. -- Philip GourevitchRich demonstrates exquisitely how shallow debate of a deep problem – the planetary scale and civilizational consequences of climate change – exacerbates the problem. -- Stewart BrandA gripping piece of history . . . Rich's writing is compelling . . . Like a Greek tragedy, Losing Earth shows how close we came to making the right choices. * National Public Radio *Nathaniel Rich’s account starts in Washington in the 1990s and tells the story of how climate change could have been stopped back then, if only the powerful had acted. But they didn’t want to. * Observer *Table of ContentsIntroduction - i: Introduction Unit - ii: Part I: Shouts in the Street:1979-1982 Chapter - 1: The Whole Banana: Spring 1979 Chapter - 2: Mirror Worlds: Spring 1979 Chapter - 3: Between Clambake and Chaos: July 1979 Chapter - 4: Enter Cassandra, Raving: 1979-1980 Chapter - 5: A Very Aggressive Defensive Program: 1979-1980 Chapter - 6: Tiger on the Road: October 1980 Chapter - 7: A Deluge Most Unnatural: November 1980-September 1981 Chapter - 8: Heroes and Villains: March 1982 Chapter - 9: The Direction of an Impending Catastrophe: 1982 Unit - iii: Part II: Bad Science Fiction: 1983-1988 Chapter - 10: Caution Not Panic: 1983-1984 Chapter - 11: The World of Action: 1985 Chapter - 12: The Ozone in October: Fall 1985-Summer 1986 Chapter - 13: Atmospheric Scientist, New York, N.Y.: Fall 1987-Spring 1988 Unit - iv: Part III: You Will See Things That You Shall Believe: 1988-1989 Chapter - 14: Nothing but Bonfires: Summer 1988 Chapter - 15: Signal Weather: June 1988 Chapter - 16: Woodstock for Climate Change: June 1988-April 1989 Chapter - 17: Fragmented World: Fall 1988 Chapter - 18: The Great Includer and the Old Engineer: Spring 1989 Chapter - 19: Natural Processes: May 1989 Chapter - 20: The White House Effect: Fall 1989 Chapter - 21: Skunks at the Garden Party: November 1989 Section - v: Afterword: Glass-Bottomed Boats Section - vi: A Note on the Sources Acknowledgements - vii: Acknowledgements

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Book SynopsisThe Times Book of the Year pick'Smart, sobering, and scholarly.' - Steve Brusatte, the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of DinosaursA gripping, thought-provoking and ultimately optimistic investigation into the world’s next great climate crisis - the scarcity of water.Water scarcity is the next big climate crisis. Water stress – not just scarcity, but also water-quality issues caused by pollution – is already driving the first waves of climate refugees. Rivers are drying out before they meet the oceans and ancient lakes are disappearing. It’s increasingly clear that human mismanagement of water is dangerously unsustainable, for both ecological and human survival. And yet in recent years some key countries have been quietly and very successfully addressing water stress.How are Singapore and Israel, for example – both severely water-stressed countries – not in the same predicament as Chennai or California?In The Last Drop, award-winning environmental journalist Tim Smedley meets experts, victims, activists and pioneers to find out how we can mend the water table that our survival depends upon. He offers a fascinating, universally relevant account of the environmental and human factors that have led us to this point, and suggests practical ways to address the crisis, before it’s too late.Trade ReviewSmart, sobering, and scholarly. Tim Smedley explores the science and politics behind our current water crisis, and with cautious optimism looks ahead for solutions that can save us from a catastrophe that could rival the great upheavals and extinctions of Earth history. -- Steve Brusatte, professor and palaeontologist at the University of Edinburgh and Sunday Times bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs Tim Smedley’s sometimes angry, always informed book is a smouldering indictment of the self-inflicted water wounds we’re causing ourselves and our planet. -- Mark Rowe * Geographical Magazine *Here in the UK, we just turn on taps without asking where the water comes from and where it goes to, but Tim Smedley argues eloquently that it’s time for that to change. And by the end of the book, you will be hopping mad and entirely in agreement with him. It's an essential read on a topic that we don’t talk about enough. This book is clear, fascinating and horrifying, but also offers workable solutions that can save us all from the worst. You will never see the water you use in the same way again. -- Helen Czerski, BBC broadcaster, UCL physicist and Royal Institution Christmas LecturerDespite the daunting scale of the water crisis, Smedley’s globe-crossing investigation into its solutions leaves you feeling that the problem is surmountable. That’s excellent news for civilisation. * The Times *

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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 ThunbergNo 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 realized 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.‘An indispensable voice for our future.’ - Malala Yousafzai‘A powerful global voice.’ - Angelina JolieTrade 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 ExtinctionThe most important climate book of the year! -- 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?Vanessa’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 WrightVital, 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 HandbookEnthusiasm, 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

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Book SynopsisA ground-breaking and beautifully written investigation into the Arctic Treeline with an urgent environmental message.'Evocative, wise and unflinching' Jay Griffiths, author of WildThe Arctic treeline is the frontline of climate change, where the trees have been creeping towards the pole for fifty years already.Scientists are only just beginning to understand the astonishing significance of these northern forests for all life on Earth. At the treeline, Rawlence witnesses the accelerating impact of climate change and the devastating legacies of colonialism and capitalism. But he also finds reasons for hope. Humans are creatures of the forest; we have always evolved with trees and The Treeline asks us where our co-evolution might take us next.SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES CROPPER WAINWRIGHT PRIZE'A moving, thoughtful, deeply reported elegy for our vanishing world and a map of the one to come' Nathaniel Rich, author of Losing Earth'A lyrical and passionate book... The Treeline is a sobering, powerful account of how trees might just save the world, as long as we are sensible enough to let them' Mail on Sunday'Ben Rawlence circumnavigates the very top of the globe - returning with a warning, in this enthralling and wonderfully written book' Mark Lynas, author of Six DegreesTrade ReviewThis original and readable book takes readers to a part of the world undergoing radical but little-understood change. * Financial Times, *Books of the Year* *An urgent and insightful tour of some of the world's strangest, most bewitching and most endangered environments... This is an important book, and one I will be pressing into other people's hands. -- Cal Flyn, author of ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT[A] sweeping account of the Arctic forest that circles the world in an almost unbroken ring. * Financial Times *[A] lyrical and passionate book... The Treeline is a sobering, powerful account of how trees might just save the world. -- Kathryn Hughes * Mail on Sunday *[An] urgent investigation into the Arctic treeline... a meticulously researched and compellingly presented read. -- Hannah Beckerman * Observer *

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Book SynopsisLeading green criminologist Rob White asks what can be learned from the problem-solving focus of crime prevention to help face the challenges of climate change in this call to arms for criminology and criminologists. Industries such as energy, food and tourism and the systematic destruction of the environment through global capitalism are scrutinized for their contribution to global warming. Ideas of ‘state-corporate crime’ and 'ecocide’ are introduced and explored in this concise overview of criminological writings on climate change. This sound and robust application of theoretical concepts to this ‘new’ area also includes commentary on topical issues such as the US withdrawal from the Paris Climate agreement. Part of the New Horizons in Criminology series, which draws on the inter-disciplinary nature of criminology and incorporates emerging perspectives like social harm, gender and sexuality, and green criminology.Trade Review"White's overall message is one of critique, connectivity, inclusion and collective enterprise. For him, a climate change criminology requires us to get to know our planet - what is going on where and why, and what we can do about it. It is an ambitious transdisciplinary challenge, but a sensible one it is hard to argue against it. There is no more pressing problem facing the continuation of the human species and Rob White has ensured that green criminology asserts a central place in the future of humanity and that of all living things." Reece Walters, Queensland University of Technology"With this book, Rob White is breaking new ground. The book is an important addition to the climate change literature. White establishes here the urgency of knowing who is doing what to prevent, stop, encourage and/or expand climate change, as well as the injustices produced by the phenomenon." Ragnhild Sollund, University of OsloTable of ContentsClimate change and criminology Global warming as ecocide In the heat of the moment Climate change catastrophes and social intersections Climate change victims Carbon criminals Criminal justice responses to climate change Criminological responses to climate change

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Book Synopsis'Wise, challenging and offering some unexpected laughter in the dark, this is a rational and insightful account of the sixth great extinction event. Peter Marren is a brilliant writer and a national treasure.' PATRICK BARKHAM'Thoughtful, fascinating and very timely.' STEPHEN MOSS'Important and thought-provoking.' CAROLINE LUCAS, GREEN PARTY MP'Essential reading. Marren makes a page-turner out of Armageddon.' SIMON BARNES'In his characteristic style Peter Marren has humanised the story of wildlife losses with humour and wit but also with his enormous knowledge and deep love for the living world.' MARK COCKERWe are in the midst of an extinction event: the sixth mass extinction on earth and one entirely caused by mankind. All species become extinct sooner or later, but we have accelerated that natural process several hundredfold and now, it is happening right in front of our eyes. Extinction has a terrifying finality to it. And many species have already been lost to us forever; there is little we can do about that.What we can do, however, is reflect, remember, and ultimately acknowledge the unvarnished truth. We must see the natural world as it is, and not as we might want it to be. Our trajectory is one that has benefited one species alone - humankind. For all other beings, from mammals to fish, from birds to insects and coral, from plants to lichens and fungi, the future, for better or worse, is in our hands.Trade ReviewWise, challenging and offering some unexpected laughter in the dark, this is a rational and insightful account of the sixth great extinction event that we are all creating. It also contains the best succinct summary of the conservation movement in Britain that I've ever read. Peter Marren is a brilliant writer and a national treasure. -- Patrick BarkhamAfter They're Gone tackles one of the huge, uncomfortable but absolutely necessary and unavoidable themes of our times. In his characteristic style Peter Marren has humanised the story of wildlife losses with humour and wit but also with his enormous knowledge and deep love for the living world. -- Mark Cocker, author and naturalistSurely one of the best written books about the current extinction crisis in animals, plants and fungi, by one who has spent a lifetime working in the conservation of the organisms he loves. Marren's tour through British wildlife in particular combines common sense and clarity of vision with a poignant sense of loss for the richness of the past. -- Richard Fortey, FRSImportant and thought-provoking -- Caroline Lucas, Green Party MPEssential reading: Marren makes a page-turner out of Armageddon. -- Simon BarnesA characteristically thoughtful, fascinating and very timely book on the process of extinction - and why it matters not just for the future of the natural world, but for us all. -- Stephen Moss, Naturalist and AuthorFrom the Xerces blue to the Labrador duck, from the giant earwig to the golden frog, Peter Marren offers us in After They've Gone a litany of wildlife loss across the world as distressing as it is gripping; and his account of the extinction of the baiji, the legendary Chinese river dolphin, will break your heart -- Michael McCarthy, author of THE MOTH SNOWSTORMHis humour keeps the reader from despairing while his love of the natural world is an inspiration to help where we can * Irish Independent *Nothing is more final than extinction, or more brutal... British nature writer Peter Marren covers the subject with admirable brio * Financial Times *

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Book SynopsisA hugely compelling, dark, offbeat adventure from the bestselling author of ROTHERWEIRD.'A deeply strange but also deeply compelling world' Blue Book BalloonThe world has become a dangerous place: the atmosphere has turned toxic, destroying almost all life, and most of humanity too. Survivors live in domes protected by chitin shields, serving one or other of the last two great companies. A long period of uneasy collaboration between Tempestas and Genrich is about to end, and they have very different visions for mankind's future. Far from these centres of power stands the Museum Dome, home to mankind's finest paintings and artefacts and their curator, a young man, Fogg, who has laboured for three years without a single visitor.Then a single mysterious pill - a momenticon - appears in the Museum and triggers a series of bewildering events, embroiling Fogg and his unexpected new companions in a desperate fight against the dark forces which threaten to overwhelm all that remains.And time is running out.'Compelling and enrapturing . . . captures the reader from the first page to the last. A five-star read' Grimdark Magazine'One of the UK's most intriguing imaginations. Momenticon is whimsical science fiction at its finest' Geek Dad Trade ReviewA history-tragic-comedy all rolled into one, Rotherweird is intricate and crisp, witty and solemn: a book not unlike other books, but with special and dangerous properties. Line by line, silent and adroit, it opens a series of trap-doors in the reader's imagination * HILARY MANTEL, two-time Man Booker prize winner, on ROTHERWEIRD *One of the UK's most intriguing imaginations. His novels remind me very much of Neal Stephenson and this book put me in mind of Josiah Bancroft's Selin Ascends. These comparisons I make as an absolute compliment. Momenticon is whimsical science fiction at its finest: a satisfying jigsaw where the bigger picture doesn't become visible until the final piece is slotted into place * GEEK DAD on MOMENTICON *Sheer post-apocalyptic weirdness . . . Momenticon is wild but fun * PILE BY THE BED on MOMENTICON *It feels non-stop: constantly splitting the protagonists up and bringing them together again, delivering a series of growing climaxes and then leaving readers hanging for a concluding second volume * PILE BY THE BED on MOMENTCION *One of the most unique books I've read . . . compelling and enrapturing story that captures the reader from the first page to the last. Caldecott managed to craft something that is utterly his own . . . a five-star read * GRIMDARK MAGAZINE on MOMENTICON *A book that is unlike anything else you have read * SF BOOK REVIEWS on MOMENTICON *Momenticon is a strange dreamlike tale that was just wonderful * MUSEBOOKS on MOMENTICON *Caldecott's prose is very readable, and his world very inventive * SFX MAGAZINE on MOMENTICON *A gripping and enthralling trip into a phantasmagorical world * ANNA RELLIX on MOMENTICON *Lean into the weirdness and you're bound to find something you love! Caldecott is in a league of his own. His style is distinct, his voice unmistakable * SHARON CHOE, Read Between the Lines, on MOMENTICON *Momenticon packs an enormous lot in, keeping its protagonists (and the reader) on their toes . . . and taking both into a deeply strange but also deeply compelling world * BLUE BOOK BALLOON on MOMENTICON *Ingenious . . . an enjoyable romp * SFCROWSNEST on MOMENTICON *Has the arbitrary and rather hallucinogenic atmosphere of the Alice in Wonderland books * BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION on MOMENTICON *Baroque, Byzantine and beautiful - not to mention bold. An enthralling puzzle picture of a book * M.R. CAREY, author of the bestselling The Girl With All The Gifts, on ROTHERWEIRD *Compelling * THE GUARDIAN on ROTHERWEIRD *Magnificent * MIDNIGHT BLUE on WYNTERTYDE *Darkly hypnotic * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH on WYNTERTYDE *A rip-roaring adventure through a brilliantly weird and wonderful dystopian landscape. I can't imagine what'll happen in the next book but I can't wait to find out! * NETGALLEY REVIEWER *Weird, mad and utterly bloody brilliant. Caldicott's latest offering to offbeat fantasy is not to be missed. Featuring his trademarked style, absurdist humour and a cast of larger-than-life characters, this was a joy to read * NETGALLEY REVIEWER *I thoroughly enjoyed the journey in to Caldecott's world. I read this book in 3 days, no mean feat as it is detailed but totally absorbing . . . It is simply brilliant. Congratulations to the author * NETGALLEY REVIEWER *Momenticon is wild but fun and works within its own crazy frame of reference. The trick is to accept the fantastical premise . . . it feels non-stop, splitting the protagonists up and bringing them together again, delivering a series of growing climaxes and then leaving readers hanging for an anticipated concluding second volume * NETGALLEY REVIEWER *Caldecott is marvellously imaginative in his intricate dystopian world-building . . . This is a wonderfully entertaining, compelling and immersive fantasy read, with plenty of suspense and tension, in which Caldecott successfully creates an equally engaging and original a world as Rotherweird. Highly recommended * NETGALLEY REVIEWER *Momenticon was one of the books I was most looking forward to reading this year, and it has not disappointed even those high expectations . . . Anyone who enjoys fantasy adventure books will love these . . . The end leaves things up in the air, ready for a sequel - I'm already desperate to get my hands on it! * NETGALLEY REVIEWER *After the brilliant Rotherweird trilogy, it would likely take something extraordinary to reach the same heights or even surpass it. Thankfully with Momenticon, the author has turned out an exceptionally spellbinding novel that transcends the norm and enters the realms of the sublime * NETGALLEY REVIEWER *Momenticon is the first in a wonderful new series by Andrew Caldecott. What a mind this man must have! I experienced this book as a warning about what will happen when climate change finally goes up a few gears * NETGALLEY REVIEWER *This book was strange and I adored it. When I saw Alice in Wonderland meets Station Eleven I knew I had to read it and I was not disappointed. This was a wild ride of a read . . . When I finished I just sat staring and thinking it is definitely one of those books. Well written with a great atmosphere and compelling storyline and well-developed characters. I couldn't put it down . . . A great read * NETGALLEY REVIEWER *Caldecott successfully creates an equally engaging and original a world as Rotherweird. Highly recommended. * GOODREADS REVIEWER *Momenticon is a perplexing and brilliant story full of literary and artistic rabbit holes and quirky characters. It ends on a cliffhanger and I want to continue this journey for sure. * GOODREADS REVIEWER *I'm not sure there are enough words that can accurately describe this weird, brilliant, funny and adventurous read. * GOODREADS REVIEWER *A rip-roaring adventure through a brilliantly weird and wonderful dystopian landscape. I can't imagine what'll happen in the next book but I can't wait to find out! * GOODREADS REVIEWER *

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Book Synopsis'This is a rich, beautiful and deeply moving book' GEORGE MONBIOT'I loved this book' CLOVER STROUDOnce Upon a Raven's Nest is the story of a working class man, one Thomas Hedley of Exmoor, and of the planet during the period of its great acceleration towards the current climate emergency.Born in 1955 to a poor family in Devon Thomas refused to conform. His fierce independence, recklessness and contrariness led not only to scrapes and self-inflicted dangers but to a life enriched by the love of women. Catrina Davies came to know him in his last years and has given his life and times in his own words, creating a rich, pungent language in a knowing, poetic and poignant voice.We learn of his accumulation of engines, tools and guns, the complexity of his connection to nature, the animals he loved and his desire to hunt them. He recounts the terrible consequences of his fatal attraction to risk and machinery which led to his being paralysed for the last years of his life, confined to a wheelchair, hopelessly dependent but still watching, noticing, recording, loving the world.The narrative is interwoven with a sequence of factual entries that chart the impending climate catastrophe and the consequences of our collective choices to ignore the warning of an environment on the verge of collapse.Once Upon A Raven's Nest is an unforgettable history of a life that is almost lost and an account of the destruction man has wrought on the earth in the time that Hedley worked the land.'Stunning. Urgent. Unforgettable' TANYA SHADRICK'This has the unmistakable smell of a classic' CHARLES FOSTERTrade ReviewThis is a rich, beautiful and deeply moving book. I read it in one sitting, then was sorry that I had not drawn it out for longer, as I enjoyed it so much. -- George MonbiotFrom the wonderfully evocative title to the heart-rending yet spirit-lifting conclusion, Catrina examines, with great empathic power, how colossal forces work on the individual. In one man, we are shown vast epochal change; in him, we see the concerns and defiance and activities that were once considered as solely the province of gods. A brilliant and necessary book. -- Niall GriffithsStunning. Urgent. Unforgettable. Through this complex and loving portrait of a rural working man, Catrina Davies gives voice to all that has been lost and damaged in his lifetime, ours. She is a true successor to John Berger in writing with love and anger on behalf of threatened species and communities. -- Tanya Shadrick, author of The Cure for SleepOnce Upon a Raven's Nest is a genuinely captivating tale of rural-lore - told through the thrilling narrative of one man's life; a good ol' country boy, a right character whose scraps and scrapes litter the pages. Chainsaws and tractors and torn love affairs fill the book, as Tommy's story is laid bare in a series of episodes and fractured snapshots carefully scattered within a timescale of environmental decline. There is a tough, brutal beauty here in Davies' depiction of the ways of the British countryside but love, and delight and the best of humanity, too. -- James CantonOriginal and powerful, I loved this book. This is a beautiful, powerful and truly original book which is nature writing at it's truest and finest. -- Clover StroudThis has the unmistakable smell of a classic. Davies has restored my flagging faith in the ability of language to tell the unvarnished truth. Here's a book worthy of Exmoor ravens and rivers and of the big, bold, dignified story it tells. I have no higher praise. * Charles Foster, author of Cry of the Wild, Being a Human and Being a Beast *There is a raw energy here which is very appealing. Exmoor very rough and very ready. Pulses with life at every turn. Expertly told, the fragmentary collision Of lives and a planet, deer, salmon, trees, tractors and a chainsaw or two. Exmoor verbatim as you never seen it before. Outdoors means out doors. -- James CrowdenSuperb . . . listen to Tommy, recorded or scripted by Davies, and something gripping and honest emerges . . . a vivid picture of nature in the raw. * Spectator *It is a beguiling, earthy tale of a lost world, one rarely examined in print. Hedley's outlandish yarns about brawling and risk-taking mix with stories that reveal his complex relationship with nature. * Independent (April Book of the Month) *A tremendous book, both gritty and lyrical and often darkly funny * Daily Mail *

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Book SynopsisThe Little Ice Age tells the fascinating story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of modern European history. Using sources ranging from the dates of long-ago wine harvests and the business records of medieval monasteries to modern chemical analysis of ice cores, renowned archaeologist Brian Fagan reveals how a 500-year cold snap began in the fourteenth century. As Fagan shows, the increasingly cold and stormy weather dramatically altered fishing and farming practices, and it shaped familiar events, from Norse exploration to the settlement of North America, from the French Revolution to the Irish potato famine to the Industrial Revolution.Now updated with a new preface discussing the latest historical climate research, The Little Ice Age offers deeply important context for understanding today's age of global warming. As the Little Ice Age shows, climate change does not come in gentle, easy stages, and its influence on human life is profound.Trade ReviewFagan shows in this wonderful book how vulnerable human society is to climatic zigzags. - New ScientistThe Little Ice Age could do for the historical study of climate what Foucault's Madness and Civilization did for the historical study of mental illness: make it a respectable subject for scholarly inquiry. - Scientific AmericanAn engaging history.... A fascinating account of events both obscure and well known, including the French Revolution and the Irish potato famine, as seen through the lens of weather and its effect on harvests. - Foreign Affairs

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Book SynopsisWhat if we could love the planet as much as we love one another?"Warm, wise, and overflowing with generosity, this is a love story so epic it embraces all of creation. Yet another reminder of how blessed we are to be in the struggle with elders like David and Tara.” – Naomi Klein and Avi LewisWhat You Won’t Do for Love is an inspiring conversation about love and the environment. When artist Miriam Fernandes approached the legendary eco-pioneer David Suzuki to create a theatre piece about climate change, she expected to write about David’s perspective as a scientist. Instead, she discovered the boundless vision and efforts of Tara Cullis, a literature scholar, climate organizer, and David’s life partner. Miriam realized that David and Tara’s decades-long love for each other, and for family and friends, has only clarified and strengthened their resolve to fight for the planet.What You Won’t Do for Love transforms real-life conversations between David, Tara, Miriam, and her husband Sturla into a charmingly novel and poetic work. Over one idyllic day in British Columbia, Miriam and Sturla take in a lifetime of David and Tara’s adventures, inspiration, and love, and in turn reflect on their own relationships to each other and the planet. Revealing David Suzuki and Tara Cullis in an affable, conversational, and often comedic light, What You Won’t Do For Love asks if we can love our planet the same way we love one another.Trade Review"Readers interested in the intersections of art and activism will want to give this a look." – Publishers Weekly "[T]his crystalline gem… is enhanced by interludes of evocative poetry and serene nature photography." – Carol Haggas, Booklist

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