Readings Recommends: Climate Change Books
Building a New World Order: Sustainable Policies for the Future
$29.99 (Paperback book / Haus Publishing )
Peace and security are fundamental concepts for everyone involved in the struggle for sustainable development. But our world is shaped by different value systems, cultures and ideologies, as well as by faith, morals and ... More »
Poles Apart: Beyond the Shouting, Who's Right about Climate Change
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
Gareth Morgan couldn't decide whether he believed in climate change or not, so he hired the best international scientists to answer his questions and these are his findings. Combined with anecdotes from his own recent tr... More »
Two Degrees Too High: Understanding the Copenhagen Summit
$29.95 (Paperback book / Abrams )
2009 is a crucial year in the international effort to address climate change, culminating in the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, 7-18 December. In 2007, Parties agreed to shape an ambitious and ef... More »
Global Environmental Change and Human Security
$42.95 (Paperback book / Mit Press )
In recent years, scholars in international relations and other fields have begun to conceive of security more broadly, moving away from a state-centered concept of national security toward the idea of human security, whi... More »
Storms of my Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and our Last Chance to Save Humanity
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Bloomsbury )
An urgent and provocative call to action from the world's leading climate scientist.
In Storms of My Grandchildren, Dr. James Hansen, the world's leading scientist on climate issues, speaks out for the first time with th... More »
Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Bloomsbury )
Al Gore offers a visionary blueprint of the changes that we should make as a world community in order to prevent the climate crisis from threatening human civilisation.
Al Gore has been a passionate advocate of action to... More »
State of the World 2009
$41.95 (Paperback book / Earthscan Pubn )
This 26th edition of State of the World looks at humanity’s biggest-ever long-term challenge: climate change. It examines what steps we most urgently need to take now in order to avoid abrupt and catastrophic change and ... More »
The Vanishing Face of Gaia
$29.95 (Trade paperback / Allen Lane )
James Lovelock described his previous book, The Revenge of Gaia, as "a wake-up call for humanity". Stark though it was in many respects, in The Vanishing Face of Gaia, Lovelock says that though the weather currently seem... More »
A Blueprint For A Safer Planet
$34.95 (Trade paperback / Bodley Head )
Further substantial global warming is unavoidable and the risks to the natural world, the economy and our everyday lives are immense. The way we live in the next thirty years - how we invest, use energy, organise transpo... More »
Forecast - The Consequences of Climate Change, from the Amazon to the Arctic
$29.95 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
'An intelligent, nuanced report on the complex relationships between increasingly unstable weather patterns and politics, ecology and lifestyles.' (Publisher's Weekly)
'Bad news is good news if it gets us to act. Forecas... More »
Climate Code Red: The Case for Emergency Action
$27.95 (Paperback book / Scribe Publications )
In this meticulously documented call-to-action, David Spratt and Philip Sutton reveal extensive scientific evidence that the global warming crisis is far worse than official reports and national governments have indicate... More »
Our Changing Planet: The View from Space
$69.95 (Hardcover book / Cambridge Univ Pres )
Since their first launch in the 1960s, satellites have been used to observe the Earth at local, regional, and global scales, giving us unique insights into the often detrimental effects that human activity is having on o... More »
Reading the Land
$39.95 (Paperback book / Aust Scholarly Pub )
'Once when I was doing fieldwork on French Island, the ranger pointed out to me that around 1995 he noticed a striking change taking place in some of the island forests and woodlands. The dense heathy understorey had beg... More »
Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalists Guide to Global Warming
$30.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
A startling book that reshapes the debate about global warming and offers a moderate approach to meeting its challenges. Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and expensive actions now being considered--the Kyo... More »
Boiling Point
$25.00 (Paperback book / Basic Books )
If left unchecked, climate change will ultimately swamp every other issue facing us today. Indeed, what began as an initial response of many institutions--denial and delay--has now grown into a crime against humanity. In... More »
An Inconvenient Truth: Planetary Emergence of Global Warming
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Bloomsbury )
The truth about the climate crisis is an inconvenient one that means we are going to have to change the way we live our lives. Our climate crisis may at times appear to be happening slowly, but in fact it has become a tr... More »
An Inconvenient Truth: Young Adult Edition
$24.95 (Paperback book / Bloomsbury )
'Each one of us is a cause of global warming, but each of us
can become part of the solution: in the decisions we make on what
we buy, the amount of electricity we use, and how we live our
lives.'
What do you think abou... More »
World Without Us
$27.95 (Paperback book / Virgin Publishing )
What if mankind disappeared right now, forever … what would happen to the Earth in a week, a year, a millennium? Could the planet’s climate ever recover from human activity? How would nature destroy our huge cities and o... More »
Economics Of Climate Change: The Stern Review
$89.95 (Paperback book / Cambridge Univ Pres )
There is now clear scientific evidence that emissions from economic activity, particularly the burning of fossil fuels for energy, are causing changes to the Earth´s climate. A sound understanding of the economics of cli... More »
Ferocious Summer Palmers Penguins And The Warming Of Antarctica
$19.95 (Trade paperback / Profile )
The Antarctic Peninsula is for all of us an early warning system. This brilliant book tells the story of Antarctic warming and of how scientists are piecing together the jigsaw of causes and impacts, here in particular t... More »
Atlas Of Climate Change: Second Edition
$29.95 (Paperback book / Earthscan Pubn )
Examines the possible impact of climate change on our ability to feed the world's people, avoid water shortages, conserve biodiversity, improve health, and preserve cities and cultural treasures. This atlas covers a rang... More »
Hot Topic: How To Tackle Global Warming And Still Keep The Lights On
$29.95 (Trade paperback / Bloomsbury )
The Hot Topic is a collaborative work by one of the most respected scientists and one of the most dynamic writers in the field of climate change. Sir David King, world-renowned scientist and the Government's Chief Scient... More »
Converging World
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Piatkus )
Tells the story of one community's attempt to change their world for the better. This title presents a model of action for any individual or community concerned about climate change, environmental damage, social inequali... More »
Under A Green Sky: Global Warming, The Mass Extinctions Of The Past And What They Can Tell Us About Our Future
$27.99 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
More than 200 million years ago, a cataclysmic event known as the Permian extinction destroyed more than 90% of all species and nearly 97% of all living things. Its origins have long been a puzzle for paleontologists, an... More »
A Question Of Balance: Weighing The Options On Global Warming Policies
$49.95 (Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr )
As scientific and observational evidence on global warming piles up every day, questions of economic policy in this central environmental topic have taken center stage. But as author and prominent Yale economist William ... More »
Hot, Flat And Crowded
$49.95 (Hardcover book / Allen Lane )
Thomas L Friedman's The World is Flat was one of the biggest global bestsellers of any kind in 2005 and 2006. With his unique combination of analysis, reportage and call to action, Friedman now addresses the biggest cris... More »
Kyoto2: How To Manage The Global Greenhouse
$39.95 (Paperback book / Zed Books )
Tickell provides a blueprint for a global climate treaty. He documents the failings of the Kyoto protocol, then goes on to summarise the latest climate science, including the work of Hansen and his colleagues. The replac... More »
Climate Change What You Can Do About It
$29.95 (Trade paperback / Macmillan )
We can all make a difference in lessening the severity and impact of climate change. This book, written by two leading science communicators in the field of climate change, takes you through the simple yet effective thin... More »
The Climate Change Challenge And The Failure Of Democracy
$79.95 (Hardcover book / Greenwood Press )
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Climate Change Begins At Home: Life On The Two-Way Street Of Global Warming
$29.95 (Paperback book / Palgrave )
Climate change is one of the greatest threats that humankind faces in the twenty-first century. The next hundred years could see coastlines and islands submerged, and a surge in heat waves, hurricanes, droughts, floods a... More »