New Book:Energy Security in the Era of Climate Change: The Asia-Pacific Experience (Energy, Climate and the Environment) by Luca Anceschi & Jonathan Symons

Energy Security in the Era of Climate Change: The Asia-Pacific Experience (Energy, Climate and the Environment) by Luca Anceschi & Jonathan Symons

Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 25 November 2011
Format: Hardback 320 pages
ISBN 13: 9780230279872 ISBN 10: 0230279872

Description
Climate change is one of the defining challenges of our times andits implications for energy security are profound. Climate concerns, declining reserves of easily accessible oil and gas, and the rise of new energy consumers will drive transformative changes to global energy systems. While these issues prompt widespread economic, environmental, and security fears, they are also connected to positive changes that include democratization of access to modern energy in the developing world. Viewed on a global scale, the primary challenge is to manage the legitimate energy demands of 6.9 billion people within the context of ecological limits. In the light of these trends, the authors examine how the concept of energy security is, will, and ideally should be transformed in the light of scientific evidence that combustion of fossil fuels contributes to dangerous climatic change.

For more information: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=475563

Read More

New Book: Capitalism and Climate Change: Theoretical Discussion, Historical Development and Policy Responses

Capitalism and Climate Change: Theoretical Discussion, Historical Development and Policy Responses by Max Koch

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 26 Oct 2011
Format: 240 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0230272514 ISBN-10: 0230272517

DescriptionThis book discusses climate change as a social issue by analysing its development in parallel with capitalism. By integrating political economy and environmental economics, it examines the incompatibility of the imperatives of capitalist development and the physical limits of the earth. The regulation approach is used to make an empirical analysis of the links between accumulation regimes, modes of consumption, energy regimes and climate change during the two most recent growth periods: Fordism and finance-driven capitalism. It also assesses the potential of the global governance network for dealing with climate change. It provides a critique of free-market environmental economics and special emphasis is given to international inequalities. The book concludes that real climate change mitigation is impossible within the framework of finance-driven capitalism. Far-reaching changes comparable to the postwar re-regulation of economy and society are required to avoid life threatening climate change.

For more information: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=413401

Read More

New Book: China's Environment and China's Environment Journalists: A Study edited by Hugo De Burgh & Zeng Rong

China's Environment and China's Environment Journalists: A Study edited by Hugo De Burgh & Zeng Rong   

 

Publisher: Intellect Books
Published: 01 October 2011
Format: Hardback 96 pages
ISBN 13: 9781841504698 ISBN 10: 1841504696

Description
Environmental issues are of growing concern in China, with numerous initiatives aimed at cultivating dialogue and increasing awareness. And key to these initiatives is the environmental journalist. The first English-language study of this burgeoning new field, this book investigates Chinese environmental journalists - their methodologies, their attitudes toward the environment, and their views on the significance of their work - and concludes that most respond enthusiastically to government promptings to report on the environment and climate change. Additional chapters demonstrate journalists’ impact in helping to shape governmental decision-making.

For more information: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=4788/

Read More

New Book: Energy, Environment and Climate by Richard Wolfson

Energy, Environment and Climate by Richard Wolfson

Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Published: 18 November 2011
Format: Paperback 435 pages
ISBN 13: 9780393912746 ISBN 10: 0393912744

Overview
Energy, Environment, and Climate, Second Edition, is the most contemporary book for the energy course. Written for non-science majors, the text presents the physical concepts in easy-to-understand language and asks students to apply those concepts to contemporary energy issues. Students learn to analyze the important questions that face today's citizens and deal with the answers both qualitatively and quantitatively. End-of-chapter questions provide an opportunity for students to practice what they've learned and provide instructors with questions that can be debated in class.

For more information: http://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?ID=23579

Read More