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Cover of Tarani Chandola & Cara Booker: Archival and Secondary Data

Tarani Chandola & Cara Booker: Archival and Secondary Data

Data archives provide rich and expansive sources of information for researchers. This book highlights the utility of secondary data analyses whilst showing you how to select the right datasets for …

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Ross Garnaut: The Superpower Transformation

In his bestselling Superpower, renowned economist Ross Garnaut showed that Australia – rich in resources for renewable energy and for capturing carbon in the landscape – could become an economic …

Climate Change Risk Profile of the Mountain Region in Sri Lanka

This publication studies the potential impact of climate change on Sri Lanka’s vulnerable mountain ecosystem in order to help guide sustainable adaptation strategies. It uses a mix of geographic …

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Lewis Ziska: Invasive Species and Global Climate Change

This book addresses topics related to the impact of invasive species including biosecurity, demographics, species diversity and food security. It is meant for researchers, upper-level students, and …

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Mary Soderstrom: Against the Seas

An incredible read.… While unflinching in her analysis, Soderstrom nevertheless gifts us with a message of hope and resilience. — MAUDE BARLOW, activist and author of Still Hopeful: Lessons from a Li …

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Building Resilience of the Urban Poor

This report explains how rising climate and disaster risk is set to increase the vulnerability of Asia and the Pacific region’s urban poor and identifies how to engender systemic change to strengthen …

Cover of Dmytro Dubilet: How the Tricolor Got Its Stripes

Dmytro Dubilet: How the Tricolor Got Its Stripes

‘ A sparkling tour through the stories of the symbols we know so well’ – Tim Marshall Starting with flags that we know, this captivating history explains the origins and hidden meanings of flags, tak …

Cover of Edward Rouse Pryor: Oooppps! Climate Change Misconceptions

Edward Rouse Pryor: Oooppps! Climate Change Misconceptions

Updated recent scientific calculations show that human-induced greenhouse gas emissions are not powerful enough to cause the global warming atmospheric climate scientists have been wit …

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Chris Goodall: Possible

‘As Chris Goodall explains, removing fossil fuels from our energy system is technologically feasible … and we should take heart that these steps to fight climate change will also lead to large and …

Cover of Kelly Dunning: Democratic Management of an Ecosystem Under Threat

Kelly Dunning: Democratic Management of an Ecosystem Under Threat

Using case studies from Florida and the Caribbean region, this book summarizes the state of coral reef conservation today. The question this book answers is, what is the best way to protect the vulne …