Climate Change and Migration

A key driver of migration is environmental conflict, and this is only likely to increase with the effects of climate change. This urgent book respo...

Explores the expanding debate on the influence of climate change on human migration. As climate change stands to alter the distribution of humans a...

Reducere. Neel Ahuja tracks the figure of the climate refugee in public media and policy over the past decade, arguing that journalists, security experts, po...

How we design our cities over the next four decades will be critical for our planet. If we continue to spill excessive greenhouse gas into the atmo...

The climate reasons, pressures and incentives that led to emigration have been neither straightforward nor uniform The author reviews the significa...

This handbook examines human responses to climatic and environmental changes in the past, their impacts on disease patterns, nutritional status, mi...

Reducere. One of the world's leading scholars of religious trends shows how climate change has driven dramatic religious upheavals. Long before the current e...

'This is one of those rare books that have something really important to say. Anatol Lieven is telling his fellow realists that at this moment the ...

Urban areas in Arctic Russia are experiencing unprecedented social and ecological change. This collection outlines the key challenges that city man...

Reducere. The shipwreck narrative is used to explore globalization, colonization and climate change in the masterful works of contemporary American painter A...

Since the end of the Cold war, the international security agenda has become increasingly important. This Very Short Introduction considers traditio...

Canoeing along the Yukon during the migration of the increasingly threatened and vital king salmon, journalist Adam Weymouth captures the stories o...

A call to action from Jane Fonda, one of the most inspiring activists of our time, urging us to wake up to the looming disaster of climate change a...

Reducere. A prize-winning journalist upends our centuries-long assumptions about migration through science, history, and reporting--predicting its lifesaving...

Displacement is one of the most pressing issues facing humanity, and it will become more so in the coming years as climate change and the impact of...

A new novel from critically acclaimed British author Maggie Gee. A topical and deeply moving meditation on belonging, set in the near future, again...

Harrowing journeys of animals and plants - fleeing skyrocketing temperatures and mega-droughts - reported from the frontlines of the greatest migra...

Reducere. DescriptionA close look at one season in one key site that reveals the amazing science and magic of spring bird migration, and the perils of human ...

Reducere. In Border and Rule, one of North America's foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delivers an unflinching examination of migration as a ...

Reducere. In Border and Rule, one of North America's foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delivers an unflinching examination of migration as a ...

This book explores the paradox of women's paid and unpaid work in India. It examines key themes including historical discourses, macroeconomic poli...

Are we as a species headed towards extinction? As our economic system renders our planet increasingly inhospitable to human life, powerful individu...

Monarchs are a favorite and familiar North American butterfly, and their incredible annual migration has captured the popular imagination for gener...

Reducere. As the seas rise, the fight intensifies to save the Pacific Ocean's Marshall Islands from being devoured by the waters around them. At the same tim...

Reducere. From the mountains of Uttrakhand in India to the Rocky Mountain in Canada, the stories in this volume represent the multitude of Asian voices that ...

Reducere. How globalization is undermining sustainable social environments for children This book uses the ecological model of child development together wit...

Reducere. The United Nations has been an essential actor in world politics for 75 years. Its entities have eliminated smallpox, protected the ozone layer, pr...

Hailed by Dan Agin in The Huffington Post as "fascinating...electrifying...an apocalyptic vision that puts a chill down one's back, " this provocat...

Reducere. A concise exploration of globalization and its role in the contemporary era Driven by technological advancements and global corporations, more and ...

Reducere. Edited by Bj rn Lomborg, this abridged version of the highly acclaimed Global Crises, Global Solutions provides a serious yet accessible springboar...

Reducere. What causes poverty? Why do tax rates vary so much between countries, and why? Is inflation inevitable? The Economics Book answers these and many o...

This book presents an overview of the direct and indirect ways in which Europe continues to be influenced by its entrenched postcolonial condition....

DescriptionPublished by AIEA. Distributed by Stylus. This new edition reflects the dramatic changes that have taken place across the world in highe...

We live in a period of uncertainty characterized by climate change, the rise of populism, mass migration across borders, and severe economic, polit...

Despite social and economic advances around the world, poverty and disease persist, exacerbated by the mounting challenges of climate change, natur...

Global ethics addresses some of the most pressing ethical concerns today, including rogue states, torture, scarce resources, poverty, migration, co...

Reducere. A paradigm shift is roiling the environmental world. For decades people have unquestioningly accepted the idea that our goal is to preserve nature ...

Reducere. The plight of the monarch butterfly has captured public attention and sparked widespread interest in helping to save their dwindling populations. I...

Reducere. Among the many beautiful seabirds that grace Florida's coasts is the tiny least tern, a feisty creature that scrapes out its nest on open beaches o...

With Habitat Threshold, Craig Santos Perez has crafted a timely collection of eco-poetry that explores his ancestry as a native Pacific Islander, t...

Reducere. **Sunday Times Bestseller** Origins by Lewis Dartnell stands comparison with Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens...A thrilling piece of Big History. - Sund...

Reducere. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Origins by Lewis Dartnell stands comparison with Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens... A thrilling piece of Big History James ...

Reducere. "A fine achievement."--Peter Singer, author of The Life You Can Save and The Most Good You Can DoA sweeping psychological history of human goodness...

The Middle East is one of the world's most volatile regions. In recent years, from the optimism and then crushing disappointment of the Arab uprisi...

Reducere. One of our most eloquent nature writers offers a passionate and informative celebration of birds and their ability to help us understand the world ...

Reducere. The COVID-19 pandemic took the European Union on a rollercoaster ride. In the first months of 2020, the EU reassured itself into inaction: 'We are ...