Climate Change Books

New and Published Books

1. The Climate Bonus

   Co-benefits of Climate Policy

   By Alison Smith

   We urgently need to transform to a low carbon society, yet our progress is painfully slow, in part because there is widespread public concern that this will require sacrifice and high costs. But this need not be the case. Many carbon reduction policies provide a range of additional benefits, from...

   Published January 27th 2013 by Routledge
2. Handbook of Disaster Policies and Institutions

   Improving Emergency Management and Climate Change Adaptation, 2nd Edition

   By John Handmer, Stephen Dovers

   Disasters both natural and human-induced are leading to spiralling costs in terms of human lives, lost livelihoods and damaged assets and businesses. Yet these consequences and the financial and human crises that follow catastrophes can often be traced to policies unsuited to the emerging scales of...

   Published January 8th 2013 by Routledge
3. Environmental Commodities Markets and Emissions Trading

   Towards a Low-Carbon Future

   By Blas Luis Pérez Henríquez

   Market-based solutions to environmental problems offer great promise, but require complex public policies that take into account the many institutional factors necessary for the market to work and that guard against the social forces that can derail good public policies. Using insights about...

   Published December 19th 2012 by RFF Press
4. Community Resilience and Environmental Transitions

   By Geoff Wilson

   This book discusses the resilience of communities in both developed and developing world contexts. It investigates the notion of ‘resilience’ and the challenges faced by local communities around the world to deal with disturbances (natural hazards or human-made) that may threaten their long-term...

   Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Spatial Dimension of Risk

   How Geography Shapes the Emergence of Riskscapes

   Edited by Detlef Müller-Mahn

   Series: Earthscan Risk in Society

   Through its exploration of the spatial dimension of risk, this book offers a brand new approach to theorizing risk, and significant improvements in how to manage, tolerate and take risks. A broad range of risks are examined, including natural hazards, climate change, political violence, and...

   Published November 5th 2012 by Routledge
6. Climate Change Ethics

   Navigating the Perfect Moral Storm

   By Donald Brown

   Climate change is now the biggest challenge faced by humanity worldwide and ethics is the crucial missing component in the debate about what to do about this enormous threat. This book examines why thirty-five years of discussion of human-induced warming has failed to acknowledge fundamental...

   Published October 30th 2012 by Routledge
7. Trade Unions in the Green Economy

   Working for the Environment

   Edited by Nora Räthzel, David Uzzell

   Combating climate change will increasingly impact on production industries and the workers they employ as production changes and consumption is targeted. Yet research has largely ignored labour and its responses. This book brings together sociologists, psychologists, political scientists,...

   Published October 28th 2012 by Routledge
8. Green vs. Green

   The Political, Legal, and Administrative Pitfalls Facing Green Energy Production

   By Ryan M. Yonk, Randy T. Simmons, Brian C. Steed

   Series: Routledge Research in Environmental Policy and Politics

   Renewable and carbon-neutral energy have been promoted as the future of energy production in the United States. Non-traditional energy sources show promise as alternatives to fossil fuels and may provide a sustainable source of energy in increasingly uncertain energy markets. However, these new...

   Published October 18th 2012 by Routledge
9. Human Dependence on Nature

   How to Help Solve the Environmental Crisis

   By Haydn Washington

   Humanity is dependent on Nature to survive, yet our society largely acts as if this is not the case. The energy that powers our very cells, the nutrients that make up our bodies, the ecosystem services that clean our water and air; these are all provided by the Nature from which we have evolved and...

   Published September 17th 2012 by Routledge
10. Environmental Policy in the EU

    Actors, institutions and processes, 3rd Edition

    Edited by Andrew Jordan, Camilla Adelle

    The European Union (EU) has a hugely important effect on the way in which environmental policies are framed and implemented in many different parts of the world, but especially Europe. The new and comprehensively revised edition of this well-known textbook provides a state-of-the-art analysis of...

    Published August 15th 2012 by Routledge