climate change

This book seeks to explain what science and politics are in the context of environmental policymaking and how the interplay of science and politics influences international environmental policy.

In five major sections, this edited collection investigates the interaction of population growth, consumption, and environment; the emerging crisis in freshwater around the globe; global climate and atmosphere (including global warming); biodiversity loss; and the concept of sustainable development using natural resources to place future human development on a sustainable path.

A report on the activities and debates at the fifth World Water Forum held at Istanbul in March 2009.

This book is a collection of papers from one of the first major US conferences on environmental history, which took place 1–3 January 1982 at the University of California’s Irvine campus, and brought together over 100 scholars active in the field.

The first in a projected series of video installations that seeks to explore the environmental humanities as a scholarly domain of growing significance.

Covers the content of this issue’s analysis of modern environmental systems, and how these systems have changed over time.

Economic historian Paolo Malanima reviews a work of ambitious scale by geographer Ian Gordon Simmons.

The Polynesian community of Takuu, a tiny low-lying atoll in the South Western Pacific, experiences the devastating effects of climate change first-hand.

In this book Mark Carey identifies glacial retreat as a historical reality that has played a substantial role in the political, economic, and social dramas of South America.