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  • Storm Surge

    Hurricane Sandy, Our Changing Climate, and Extreme Weather of the Past and Future

    by Adam Sobel ...
    Was Sandy a freak of nature, or the new normal?On October 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy reached the shores of the northeastern United States to become one of the most destructive storms in history. But was Sandy a freak event, or should we have been better prepared for it? Was it a harbinger of things to come as the climate warms? In this fascinating and accessible work of popular science, atmospheric ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • A Cold Welcome

    The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America

    by Sam White ...
    Cundill History Prize FinalistLongman–History Today Prize Finalist“Meticulous environmental-historical detective work.”—Times Literary SupplementWhen Europeans first arrived in North America, they faced a cold new world. The average global temperature had dropped to lows unseen in millennia. The effects of this climactic upheaval were stark and unpredictable: blizzards and deep freezes, droughts ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The European Emission Trading System and Its Followers

    Comparative Analysis and Linking Perspectives

    by Simone Borghesi, Massimiliano Montini, Alessandra Barreca ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Given the rapid spread of ETSs in an increasing number of countries and the important role that they are likely to play for the success or failure of the environmental policy in the years to come, this book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the EU ETS from both the legal and economic perspectives comparing it with the other main ETSs existing worldwide, in order to assess whether the EU ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • An Introduction to the Global Circulation of the Atmosphere

    by David Randall ...
    The most comprehensive advanced graduate-level textbook on the subjectThis is a graduate-level textbook on the global circulation of the Earth's atmosphere—the large-scale system of winds by which energy is transported around the planet, from the tropical latitudes to the poles. Written by David Randall, one of the world’s foremost experts on the subject, it is the most comprehensive textbook on ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Genomics and Breeding for Climate-Resilient Crops

    Vol. 2 Target Traits

    Edited by Chittaranjan Kole ...
    Climate change is expected to have a drastic impact on agronomic conditions including temperature, precipitation, soil nutrients, and the incidence of disease pests, to name a few. To face this looming threat, significant progress in developing new breeding strategies has been made over the last few decades.The second volume of Genomics and Breeding for Climate-Resilient Crops describes various ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Barrier Dynamics and Response to Changing Climate

    Edited by Laura J. Moore, A. Brad Murray ...
    This book presents chapters, written by leading coastal scientists, which collectively depict the current understanding of the processes that shape barrier islands and barrier spits, with an emphasis on the response of these landforms to changing conditions. A majority of the world’s population lives along the coast at the dynamic intersection between terrestrial and marine ecosystems and ... Read more

    $153.99 CAD

  • Beekeeping – From Science to Practice

    Edited by Russell H. Vreeland, Diana Sammataro ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book will help beekeepers understand the fundamentals of beekeeping science. Written in plain and accessible language by actual researchers, it should be part of every beekeeper’s library. The respective chapters not only present raw data; they also explain how to read and understand the most common figures. With topics ranging from honeybee nutrition to strains of Varroa resistant bees, from ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Greening Cities

    Forms and Functions

    Edited by Puay Yok Tan, Chi Yung Jim ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book offers an overview of recent scientific and professional literature on urban greening and urban ecology, focusing on diverse disciplines such as landscape architecture, geography, urban ecology, urban climatology, biodiversity conservation, urban governance, architecture and urban hydrology. It includes contributions in which academics, public policy experts and practitioners share their ... Read more

    $140.89 CAD

  • Machine Learning and Data Mining Approaches to Climate Science

    Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Climate Informatics

    Edited by Valliappa Lakshmanan, Eric Gilleland, Amy McGovern, Martin Tingley ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book presents innovative work in Climate Informatics, a new field that reflects the application of data mining methods to climate science, and shows where this new and fast growing field is headed. Given its interdisciplinary nature, Climate Informatics offers insights, tools and methods that are increasingly needed in order to understand the climate system, an aspect which in turn has become ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Environmental Resource Management and the Nexus Approach

    Managing Water, Soil, and Waste in the Context of Global Change

    Edited by Hiroshan Hettiarachchi, Reza Ardakanian ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book elaborates how water, soil, and waste may be managed in a nexus and how this approach may help combat global change. In addition to providing a brief account on nexus thinking and how it may help us tackle issues important to the world community such as food security, the book presents the environmental resource perspective of three main aspects of global change: climate change, ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • Aid Performance and Climate Change

    by Julian Caldecott ...
    The richer countries spend about US$165 billion yearly on overseas aid, mainly to keep human development going. These efforts are undermined by climate change, water-catchment damage, biodiversity loss, and desertification, and their interactions with social systems at all scales, which few aid designs or evaluations fully address. This must change if aid performance is to be improved.Constraints ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Facing Up to Global Warming

    What is Going on and How You Can Make a Difference?

    by N.F. Gray ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    In this volume, Professor N.F. Gray offers a comprehensive primer on climate change, sustainability, and how the two concepts are related. This book consists of fifteen chapters, each treating a specific aspect of the current global crisis, including scientific background as well as an up to date appraisal of the issue at hand. It covers the reasons behind climate change and the effect it will ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD