An anthology of essays bringing together renowned Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian thinkers, scientists, activists and artists responding to the Black Summer of 2019-20. Their diverse voices confront the experience and ‘aftermath of our bushfires’ apocalypse with hope and vision.
Navigating Post-Truth and Alternative Facts: Religion and Science as Political Theology is an edited volume that explores the critical intersection of religion, science, and politics. Contributors reflect on the role of interdisciplinary scholarship for the health of a society threatened by post-truth and alternative facts.
Climate Change Preparation and Adaption after Hurricane Sandy
Governing Disaster in Urban Environments provides a comprehensive account of relevant debates, conceptualizations, and practical considerations for the governance of disaster at multiple scales. In this interdisciplinary work, Julia Nevarez uses the example of Hurricane Sandy to analyze the complex phenomenon of climate change.
Housing, Feeding, Powering, and Transporting the Urban Crowds of the F
As the world population continues to grow, more people will be moving to cities, making our current large metropolises swell by millions. This work explores what will be needed to build and sustain these cities, and supply and transport their inhabitants on Earth and beyond.
What Science Reveals About the Nature of Endless Change
A geologist explains the complex relationship between earth's geologic cycles and climate change. This book, written by a geologist, describes the important contributions that geology has made to our understanding of climate change. What emerges is a much more complex and nuanced picture than is usually presented. While the average person ......
The Clean Energy Age - A guide to beating climate change is a how-to handbook providing Top 10 Lists of priorities, helping homeowners, business, and government officials to take immediate action against climate change and benefit from new sources of energy. It is based on 15 years of research and hundreds of expert interviews.
How to create a New Way Now, a sustainable future? Financial collapse and ecological pressure will soon demand that we practice a different sort of social and economic life!
Don’t despair! Despite rising population, climate change and ecological damage, it is still possible, is affordable, and we can then live ......
Climate change is viewed as a primarily scientific, economic, or political issue. While acknowledging the legitimacy of these perspectives, the author argues that we should respond to climate change first and foremost as a case of systematic and structural violence.
Climate change is viewed as a primarily scientific, economic, or political issue. While acknowledging the legitimacy of these perspectives, the author argues that we should respond to climate change first and foremost as a case of systematic and structural violence.
