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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster - The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical--and accessible--plan for how the world can get to zero...

The Carbon Almanac - It's Not Too Late

When it comes to the climate, we don't need more marketing or anxiety. We need established facts and a plan for collective action. The cl...

Regeneration - Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation

A radically new understanding of and practical approach to climate change by noted environmentalist Paul Hawken, creator of the New York ...

We Are the Weather - Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast

In We Are the Weather, Jonathan Safran Foer explores the central global dilemma of our time in a surprising, deeply personal, and urgent ...

Half-Earth - Our Planet's Fight for Life

History is not a prerogative of the human species, Edward O. Wilson declares in Half-Earth. Demonstrating that we blindly ignore the hist...

Ecological Thought

In this passionate, lucid, and surprising book, Timothy Morton argues that all forms of life are connected in a vast, entangling mesh. Th...

Good News, Planet Earth - What's Being Done to Save Our World, and What You Can Do Too!

Join sustainability enthusiast and climate activist Sam Bentley as he shares the hopeful developments combating climate change! Do you fe...

A Natural History of the Future - What the Laws of Biology Tell Us About the Destiny of the Human Species

Over the past century, our species has made unprecedented technological innovations with which we have sought to control nature. In A Nat...

Stakeholder Capitalism - A Global Economy that Works for Progress, People and Planet

Think of the global economy as a jigsaw puzzle. At the heart of solving the puzzle and addressing global disturbance and uncertainty lies...

Comprehensive Utilization of Magnesium Slag by Pidgeon Process

This open access book introduces the harmless handling/recycling of magnesium slag , the process of magnesium silicothermic reduction (Pi...

What We Leave Behind - A Birdwatcher's Dispatches from the Waste Catastrophe

A clear-eyed look at the rubbish we create in our everyday lives, what happens to it, where it goes and whether it will outlive us.

Sixty Harvests Left - How to Reach a Nature-Friendly Future

'A book of urgency but also of hope, as Lymbery shares solutions to save us' Chris Packham 'Philip Lymbery pulls no punches in cataloguin...

Warnsignal Klima 21: Hilft Technik gegen die Erderwärmung? - Climate Engineering in Diskussion

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Spinning Out - Climate Change, Mental Health and Fighting for a Better Future

Utterly brilliant - engaging, thrilling, disturbing, revelatory, explosive' George Monbiot An urgent, eye-opening study by leading climat...

Fen, Bog and Swamp - A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week`Magnificent¿ Guardian`Remarkable ¿ A compact classic!¿ Bill McKibben`I learned something new ¿ and found s...

The Treeline - The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth

* SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES CROPPER WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2022 * 'The very treeline is on the move: a devastating image. This book is an evoca...

Breathe - Seven Ways to Win a Greener World

New book from Penguin Random House publishing May 2023

Urban Jungle - Wilding the City, from the author of Metropolis

An eye-opening and urgent re-examination of nature in our cities, from the Sunday Times bestselling winner of the Somerset Maugham Award ...

Not Zero - How an Irrational Target Will Impoverish You, Help China (and Won't Even Save the Planet)

'Bravely challenging the Establishment consensus ... forensically argued' - Mail on SundayThe British government has embarked on an ambit...

Waking Up to Climate Change: Five Dimensions of the Crisis and What We Can Do About It

For 15 years, author George Ropes has followed the unfolding story of climate change for the timely website ClimateYou.org. Along the way...

Field Guide to Climate Anxiety - How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet

A youth movement is reenergizing global environmental activism. The "climate generation"--late millennials and iGen, or Generation Z--is ...

Charged - A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future

"Few technologies are more important to unlocking a clean-energy future than batteries. Batteries will help store electricity from solar ...

The New Global Possible - Evidence for Hope in the Fight for a Sustainable Future

An optimistic survey of the newest developments in the fight against climate change, from the experts leading the charge. The leaders of ...

Solved - How the World's Great Cities Are Fixing the Climate Crisis

David Miller presents a compelling case that significant progress can be made at the local level by replicating the actions of leading ci...

365 Ways to Save the Planet - A Day-by-day Guide to Sustainable Living

Step up your sustainability and unlock your full eco potential with 365 easy, trackable changes. What if sustainability didn't have to be...

Living in the Environment

Packed with captivating illustrations from National Geographic and MindTap's anywhere, anytime digital learning tools, Miller/Spoolman's ...

Big River - Resilience and Renewal in the Columbia Basin

Discover the diversity of the Columbia River watershed and the importance of the river's treaty renegotiation--a once-in-a-lifetime chanc...

Creating Scientific Controversies - Uncertainty and Bias in Science and Society

This is the first book-length introductory analysis of the concept of a created scientific controversy.

World Without End - The #1 International Bestseller

THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER *A Financial Times Most Anticipated Book of 2024* Is this the end of the world? Perhaps not. In this eye-...

The Good Bug - A Celebration of Insects - and What We Can Do to Protect Them

Following on from the success of The Good Bee, this beautifully illustrated celebration of insects by leading entomologist George McGavin...

Licht Luft Scheiße - Perspektiven auf Ökologie und Moderne

Die ökologische Frage ist nicht neu. Bereits vor über hundert Jahren entstanden in Reaktion auf die zunehmende Industrialisierung und Urb...

Environment: The Science Behind the Stories, Global Edition

Hearsay Is Not Excluded - A History of Natural History

This chronicle of natural history argues that the modern environmental crisis and rise in science skepticism codeveloped with the histori...

Landscapes of Hope - Finding Common Ground in Utah's Greater San Rafael Swell

At a time when division, polarization, and antagonisms pervade the United States, here is hope for the future. Landscapes of Hope shows h...

Cognitive Predictive Maintenance Tools for Brain Diseases - Design and Analysis

Various Cognitive Predictive Maintenance Tests with help of tools like vibration analysis tools, Ultrasonic analysis tools, Infrared anal...

Kew - Parched - 50 plants that thrive and survive in a dry garden

As global temperatures rise, there is a risk drought will become more frequent across the globe. This book is a collection of over 50 bea...

Pollution

What causes pollution? How does pollution affect the environment? Why should we care about pollution? Read this book to find out more abo...

Manomin - Caring for Ecosystems and Each Other

Grounded in Indigenous methodology, this collection offers a community-engaged analysis of the only cereal grain native to Turtle Island,...

Before They Vanish - Saving Nature's Populations -- And Ourselves

Legendary conservationists show us that we still have the power to prevent critical consequences of the sixth extinction in this game-cha...

Client Earth

Environmentally, our planet lacks the laws to keep it safe and those laws we do have are feebly enforced. Every new year is the hottest i...

Managing Biodiversity in Agricultural Landscapes - Conservation, Restoration and Rewilding

Despite recent efforts, agricultural production continues to threaten biodiversity, disrupt delivery of key ecosystem services and contri...

Smart Cities, Energy and Climate - Governing Cities for a Low-Carbon Future

Collective insight of key thought leaders in the field, combining theoretical, methodological, and empirical knowledge Smart Cities, Ener...

Environmental Chemodynamics: Movement of Chemicals in Air, Water, and Soil, - Movement of Chemicals in Air, Water, and Soil

This book updates a successful and widely-used text that is "the most authoritative source in the field of environmental chemodynamics." ...

Uncommon Cause - Living for Environmental Justice in Kerala

"A wonderful ethnographic journey into the ethical lives of environmental justice activists in India. Uncommon Cause is a careful study o...

Integrated Waste Management - A Sustainable Approach from Waste to Wealth

This book explores a diverse spectrum of waste materials, encompassing industrial hazardous and non-hazardous waste, agricultural waste, ...

Our Renewable Energy Future - the Remarkable Story Of How Renewable Energy Will Become the Basis for Our Lives

Our Renewable Energy Future focuses on clean energy technology evolution and where our energy system is going. While its foundation is te...

Companion to Environmental Studies

Over 150 short chapters written by leading international experts provide a concise, comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the k...

How to Save Your Planet One Object at a Time

A stylish guide to one-hundred ways in which everyday objects and processes can be replaced with more environmentally friendly and sustai...

Our Gigantic Zoo - A German Quest to Save the Serengeti

Our Gigantic Zoo tells the story of Bernhard Grzimek, the most important European wildlife conservationist, and his role in creating a pe...

Lost Wonders - 10 tales of extinction from the 21st century

What happens when the delicate balance of life is disturbed? Lost Wonders tells ten remarkable stories of species which have become extin...

Lecture Notes in Water Policy

Freshwater is our planet's most precious resource - essential for life itself. Despite this fact, many people across our planet face diff...

Long Problems - Climate Change and the Challenge of Governing across Time

"This book argues that, just as the "widening" of political problems across national boundaries due to globalization has led to profound ...

Bayesian Ideas and Data Analysis - An Introduction for Scientists and Statisticians, Second Edition

This textbook on Bayesian Statistics can be used to teach an upper division statistics course, a master's level course, a Ph.D. level cou...

Defending the Earth

Natural Disasters - Acts of God or Acts of Man?

Originally published in 1984 Natural Disasters questions whether the rich nations' usual response to disaster is any longer adequate. Tod...

The Commonwealth of Life

The book that seeks to chart a new future for all who share this planet.

The Construction of Ecological Civilization in China

The book introduces China's ecological environmental protection in urban and rural areas. China's economic development and the achievemen...

Planet Aqua - Rethinking Our Home in the Universe

What would happen if we were to awaken one day and suddenly realize that the world we live in appeared eerily alien, as if we'd been tele...

Seismic Performance of Corroded Reinforced Concrete Structures Retrofitted with Frp

This monograph is written based on the author's research on seismic assessment and retrofitting of corrosion-damaged reinforced concrete ...

The Jordan River and Dead Sea Basin - Cooperation Amid Conflict

The 21st century will present unprecedented challenges. Already in its first decade we have seen the dramatic impact of two systemic risk...