Bushfires in Australia by R. H. Luke; A. G. Mcarthur

$22.00 AUD

Category: Environment

Australian Subtropical Fungi by Sapphire McMullan-Fisher

$38.00 AUD

Category: Environment

Millennial Agriculture - The New Eden by Paul W. Syltie

$35.00 AUD

Category: Environment

Adaptation to Climate Change - Law and Policy by Tim Bonyhady (Editor); Jan McDonald (Editor); Andrew Macintosh (Editor)

$59.95 AUD

Category: Environment

While climate policy has focused overwhelmingly on the science and on reducing emissions, policy makers are increasingly focused on how to adapt to changes are already 'locked in', changes that will bring significant social economic and environmental impacts. Adaptation will require technological innova tion as well as behavioural and attitudinal change. This book covers the legal dimensions of adaptation and addresses challenges across sector interests. It considers whether existing regulatory and governance frameworks are supportive, adaptable or barriers to necessary change. The authors cover the key issues: sea level rise, planning; water security; climate justice; conservation regimes; the role of the courts; insurance; compensation; and the law of disasters. ...Show more

Under a Green Sky : Global Warming, The Mass Extinctions Of The Past, And What They Can Tell Us About Our Future by Peter D. Ward

$30.99 AUD

Category: Environment

More than 200 million years ago, a cataclysmic event known as the Permian extinction destroyed more than 90 percent of all species and nearly 97 percent of all living things. Its origins have long been a puzzle for paleontologists. During the 1990s and the early part of this century, a great battle was fought between those who thought that death had come from above and those who thought something more complicated was at work. Paleontologist Peter. D. Ward, fresh from helping prove that an asteroid had killed the dinosaurs, turned to the Permian problem, and he has come to a stunning conclusion. In his investigations of the fates of several groups of mollusks during that extinction and others, he discovered that the near-total devastation at the end of the Permian period was caused by rising levels of carbon dioxide leading to climate change. But it's not the heat (nor the humidity) that's directly responsible for the extinctions, and the story of the discovery of what is responsible makes for a fascinating, globe-spanning adventure. In Under a Green Sky, Ward explains how the Permian extinction as well as four others happened, and describes the freakish oceans - belching poisonous gas - and sky - slightly green and always hazy - that would have attended them. Those ancient upheavals demonstrate that the threat of climate change cannot be ignored, lest the world's life today - ourselves included - face the same dire fate that has overwhelmed our planet several times before. First published 2007. ...Show more

Hearts and Minds - Creative Australians and the Environment by Michael Pollak; Margaret MacNabb

$34.95 AUD

Category: Environment

High Tide: How climate crisis is engulfing our planet (2005 ed) by Mark Lynas

$24.95 AUD

Category: Environment

The No Logo of climate change - a book that shows how global warming is not a theory we should still debate, but something that has already happened on a global scale. Climate change is not a concern for the future. It's happening right now. In this book - based on the latest scientific evidence - the a uthor takes us around the world to show the impact of global warming already being felt in people's lives.From sand-buried houses in China to thawing Alaskan plains, the author witnesses some of the worst effects of climate change at first hand. Some, like the floods in the UK, are near home. Others - like the drowning Pacific island of Tuvalu - are a world away from the exhaust pipes and factory chimneys that are actually causing global warming.But this isn't simply an inventory of disaster, it's a wry look at how people around the globe are coping as their world changes at unprecedented speed. In the process, the author eats whale blubber in Alaska, swims in shark-infested waters off the Great Barrier Reef and struggles to the top of Andean peaks in Peru. An adventure with a conscience and an argument with an urgent purpose, High Tide is an extremely important book. ...Show more

In the Rainforest by Catherine Caufield

$11.00 AUD

Category: Environment | Series: Picador Bks.

A Big Fix - Radical Solutions for Australia's Environmental Crisis by Ian Lowe

$16.95 AUD

Category: Environment | Series: The\Public Interest Ser.

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Living in the Hothouse by Ian Lowe

$19.00 AUD

Category: Sciences

In 1989 Ian Lowe published Living in the Greenhouse, one of the first books to be published in Australia on the greenhouse effect. Since then, the signs of global warming have become even more clear and more worrying to the international community, as demonstrated by the Kyoto Protocol. In Australia and around the world the impact of climate change on weather patterns is already being noticed in dramatic and frightening ways. In this new book, Professor Lowe brings us up to date on how global warming has already started to affect Australia, and how it is likely to in the future. He presents a clear and balanced explanation of the current scientific understanding of global warming; its effects now and in the future on Australia's climate, land use, forms of energy and water consumption, and our economy, industry, and agriculture. Living in the Hothouse is an important and timely book about an issue at the heart of Australian life since Federation. It offers new insights into Australia's past and present place in the world, and the ideals that have shaped the nation while challenging all Australians to face up to the changes which global warming is bringing, and to accept the responsibility for planning and creating a sustainable future. ...Show more

Green Legends - People Power on the Sunshine Coast by Elaine Green

$22.00 AUD

Category: Environment