To truly understand climate change, we must first understand ourselves. This guide explores the crisis through a multi-faceted lens—social, psychological, and cultural—revealing the core beliefs and ideologies that shape our response.
Climate Crisis and Creation Care
Our constant consumption of resources has had a negative impact on the world—affecting everything from the weather to the social fabric of our society. This book explores how we arrived at such an unstable world and offers sustainable solutions to a global crisis.
Climate Crisis and Sustainable Creaturely Care
Global academics tackle the climate crisis through the lens of creation care. This volume reviews the damage to our environment and how our misuse of resources threatens all life, offering a global voice on our impact and presenting creation care as a way out of this crisis.
Demystifying Climate Risk Volume I
From a workshop on climate risk, seasoned leaders share their expertise with the next generation. This book explores environmental, health, and societal impacts—with a focus on Africa and education—leveraging lessons learned to inspire innovation and sustainable development.
This book explores the fundamental processes of carbon sequestration in forest ecosystems and their vital role in mitigating climate change. It provides an in-depth analysis of anthropogenic impacts, offering invaluable insights into the science, policy, and practices involved.
Humankind and Nature
This publication gathers Western and Asian experts from fields like ecology, religion, and ethics to address the ecological dilemma. This collection of essays will renew awareness and stimulate reflection on the spiritual and social dimensions of climate change.
Meeting the Challenges of Climate Change to Tourism
The travel and tourism industry is both a significant contributor to climate change and is directly impacted by it. As a vital driver of the global economy, the sector must adapt. This collection offers indispensable insights and models of best practice.
This book offers profound analyses of the main theoretical and practical aspects of the concept of sustainable development. The focus on the international aspects of the implementation of ideas of this notion makes the insights provided here fresh and unique.
Patents and Climate Change
Since the year 1989, hundreds of global-warming related patents have been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Dochniak provides an easy-to-read summary of such patents, in addition to presenting inventor profiles and news articles that are thought-provoking.
A shift from fossil fuels to hydrogen and bio-based solutions is essential for a carbon-neutral future. This book explores sustainable methods for producing synthetic fuels from sources like biomass, water, and recycled CO2 to make this critical transition feasible.
The Finance Sector and Climate Change
While fossil fuel interests are blamed for thwarting climate policy, this book shows the financial sector’s influence is greater. It funds a ‘climate crisis’ narrative to serve its investments in renewables, imposing restrictions that harm the developing world, as revealed here.
Third-Party Risk Policies in the Netherlands
Keeping people safe in the densely populated Netherlands means balancing public health against the profits of industries creating hazardous risks. This book explores this balancing act, offering valuable insight into how sustainable policy can be achieved for all.
This collection of influential essays and articles will help your community develop people-first strategies for becoming smarter and more intelligent. Learn from in-depth global examples of innovation, connectivity, sustainability, and inclusive, equitable growth.
Transforming Our World
Our world is more advanced than ever, yet it is on a self-destructive path. War and the erosion of our natural and human capital threaten our very future. This book charts a new course, revealing the essential changes in our paradigms and mindset required for survival.
Vulnerability Studies in the Americas
This book assesses climate change vulnerability and adaptive capacity in South America and Canada. The result of a seven-year project, it fills a gap in academic literature with unique comparative case studies of the global North and South.