Climatology & Meteorology Books

New and Published Books

1. Beyond a Stationary Hydrology: the Resilience Approach to the Adaptation of Flooding Systems to Climate Change

   UNESCO-IHE PhD Thesis

   By Berry Gersonius

   Nowadays, the uncertainties associated with the process of making decisions for water infrastructure investments can be significant and arise from, amongst other factors, a lack of knowledge about primary external drivers, like climate change. New and improved methods for the assessment climate...

   Published May 15th 2012 by CRC Press
2. Agrometeorology in Extreme Events and Natural Disasters

   By H.P. Das

   This volume deals with a broad variety of extreme events that affect agriculture and presents effective risk management strategies. It explains events and their effects and presents techniques and strategies to cope with disasters such as drought, volcanic eruption, pests, etc. and minimize...

   Published May 9th 2012 by CRC Press
3. Climate Change and Australia

   Warming to the Global Challenge

   By Ben Saul, Steven Sherwood, Jane McAdam, Tim Stephens, James Slezak

   Climate change is one of the most hotly debated issues of this century. Politicians have risen and fallen on its wake, elections have been fought around it, and international leaders have come under unprecedented scrutiny by civil society. As Australia is battered by hotter summers, more frequent...

   Published March 11th 2012 by Federation Press
4. Geography of Climate Change

   Edited by Richard Aspinall

   Climate change is one of the inescapable themes of current times. Climate change confronts society in issues as diverse as domestic and international political debate and negotiation, discussion in the media and public opinion, land management choices and decisions, and concerns about environmental...

   Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge
5. Climate Clever

   How Governments Can Tackle Climate Change (and Still Win Elections)

   By Hugh Compston, Ian Bailey

   Why, despite two decades of climate policy, have affluent democracies made so little progress in cutting greenhouse gas emissions? We know that there are ways of doing this that are both practical and affordable. It is politics that is the problem. Stringent climate policies may lead companies to...

   Published February 15th 2012 by Routledge
6. Climate Management Issues

   Economics, Sociology, and Politics

   By Julie K. Gines

   Despite all the controversy and hype that climate change has generated, there now exists an overwhelming body of scientific evidence that the problem is real and that its effects are already being felt on a global scale. Part of what makes this a volatile and controversial issue is that it is not...

   Published December 13th 2011 by CRC Press
7. Future Climate Change

   Edited by Mark Maslin, Samuel Randalls

   Series: Critical Concepts in the Environment

   In recent years, future climate change has increasingly been recognized as one of the most important issues of the twenty-first century, challenging the very structure of our global society. No longer just an abstruse scientific concern, it prompts difficult choices for both individuals and...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
8. Climate: Present, Past and Future (Routledge Revivals)

   Volume 1: Fundamentals and Climate Now

   By H. H. Lamb

   Series: Routledge Revivals: A History of Climate Changes

   First published in 1972, this first volume of Professor Lamb’s study of our changing climate deals with the fundamentals of climate and climatology, as well as providing global data on the contemporary climates of the twentieth century....

   Published September 29th 2011 by Routledge
9. Climate: Present, Past and Future (Routledge Revivals)

   Volume 2: Climatic History and the Future

   By H. H. Lamb

   Series: Routledge Revivals: A History of Climate Changes

   First published in 1977, the second volume of Climate: Present, Past and Future covers parts 3 and 4 of Professor Hubert Lamb’s seminal and pioneering study of climatology. Part 3 provides a survey of evidence of types of climates over the last million years, and of methods of dating...

   Published September 29th 2011 by Routledge
10. A History of Climate Changes (4 Volumes)

    Selected Works of H. H. Lamb

    By H. H. Lamb

    Series: Routledge Revivals: A History of Climate Changes

    First published between 1966 and 1988, the four volumes in this collection demonstrate the immense breadth and depth of work on climate change by the pioneering English climatologist Hubert Lamb. Detailing everything from the fundamentals of climate and climatology, as well as a history of climatic...

    Published September 29th 2011 by Routledge