The Ethics of Climate Change: An Introduction systematically and comprehensively examines the ethical issues surrounding arguably the greatest threat now facing humanity. This second edition has been updated and includes two new chapters on climate change and capitalism and climate change and law.

Climatic change, now more than ever in this age of global warming, is seen as fundamental to the study of the environment. This text examines the importance of climate as one of the major forcing functions in the global environmental change process.

Ecological Restoration and Environmental Change presents an introduction to the practice of renewing and restoring degraded, damaged, or destroyed ecosystems and habitats in the environment.

Climate change is prompting an unprecedented questioning of the fundamental bases upon which society is founded. Businesses claim that technology can save the environment, while politicians champion the role of international environmental agreements to secure global action.

Learning is critical for our capacity to govern the environment and adapt proactively to complex and emerging environmental issues.

This volume covers just about every aspect of the environment. It is the second national report card on Australia's environment and heritage. It uses a system of environmental indicators as tools to measure the nature and size of the country's environmental issues.

Authoritative and accessible coverage of principles, issues and regulation in Australian environmental law.

his book presents how to recreate therapeutic landscapes in everyday places of eco-neighbourhoods which are characterized by many aspects related to sustainability, including protection of the environment, building social capital, ensuring a high quality of life with low costs, and promoting social and environmental justice.

This book provides a review of the multitude of conservation concepts, both from a scientific, philosophical, and social science perspective, asking how we want to shape our relationships with nature as humans, and providing guidance on which conservation approaches can help us to do this.

This book intends to initiate a fresh articulation of need-based infrastructure provisions in rural contexts. . the book presents a comprehensive suite of technical and non-technical indicators that rationalise fit-for-purpose planning, development.

Tells the stories, some for the first time, of eleven individuals who made heroic contributions to protecting our planet through groundbreaking international treaties investigates who was involved, how different personalities impacted the negotiations, what the state of play was and highlights the pivotal make or break moments.

The world has witnessed extraordinary economic growth, poverty reduction and increased life expectancy and population since the end of WWII, but it has occurred at the expense of undermining life support systems on Earth and subjecting future generations to the real risk of destabilising the planet.