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But, according to the authors, understanding pathogen history and evolution holds the key to saving technological humanity from the onslaught of those many EIDs that have yet to explore the immense opportunity space that climate change and human civilization have provided them with. By taking us on a whirlwind tour through the history of such diverse topics as evolutionary biology, the history of vaccines, past pandemics, and climate change, Brooks, Hoberg, and Boeger dismantle our preconceived notions about host-pathogen co-evolution, they explain how we got into the current mess, as they aptly call it, and propose a possible way to get out of it before it is too late. Daniel R. Brooks, Eric P. Hoberg, Walter A. Boeger, The Stockholm Paradigm: Climate Change and Emerging Disease. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "Changing Climate, Changing Economy," by Jean-Philippe Touffut.

Citizen science is an emerging area that deals with the engagement of citizens in scientific projects. With the publication of Irwin's Citizen Science: A Study of People, Expertise, and Sustainable Development, the objective of citizen science became pronounced. Thereafter, a good number of works have been done to chart out the objectives, methodology and scope of citizen science. Pankaj Sekhsaria and Naveen Thayyil's First Steps: Citizen Science in Ecology in India examines the growth of citizen science in the Indian context. By analysing various projects, the authors underpin the importance of this area in a world threatened by climate change. Through a nuanced approach, they deal with the challenges and limitations of citizen science projects in India. This review article places First Steps in the broad spectrum of citizen science to discuss the possible expansion of the field and the strength and weaknesses of Sekhsaria and Thayyil's work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Reviews the book `Climate and Global Environmental Change,' by L.D. Danny Harvey.

Reviews and notices are provided on 23 books, published over the years 2017–2020. These are concerned with diverse aspects of biodiversity and conservation, including historical works on different types of institutions, climate change and palaeobiology, global health and sustainability, ecology, restoration, community involvement, animal behaviour, utilization, and regional studies. This is the eighth of a series of cumulative book reviews and notices, based on works submitted by the publishers, which generally appear annually in the journal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Regime shifts in lake ecosystems can occur in response to both abrupt and continuous climate change, and the imprints they leave in paleolimnological records allow us to investigate and better understand patterns and processes governing ecological changes on geological time scales. This synthesis investigates paleolimnological records that display apparent regime shifts and characterizes the shifts as either smooth, threshold-like or bistable. The main drivers behind the shifts are also explored: direct climate influence on lakes, climate influence mediated through the catchment, lake ontogenetic processes and/or anthropogenic forcing. This framework helps to elucidate the relationship between driver and regime shift dynamics and the type of imprint that the associated regime shifts leaves in sediment records. Our analysis of the limited sites available (22 sites) show that smooth regime shifts are characterized with forcing and response variables acting on similar time scales, whereas regime shifts that demonstrate a threshold like response or a hysteresis response occur on shorter time scales than changes in drivers. The temporal resolution of the record, a common concern in paleo records, limits identification of the timing and rate of the regime shifts. When detected, past regime shifts offer rich opportunities to understand ecosystem responses to climate and other changes and to evaluate the mean state and natural variability of lake ecosystems on time scales of decades to millennia. There are a number of remaining challenges in understanding regime shifts and ecosystem dynamics in a paleolimnological perspective including lack of an appropriate temporal resolution and ecosystem feedback mechanisms. Combining paleoecology with contemporary studies can help clarify the scale of regime shifts and to distinguish patterns in ecosystem changes from natural variability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Chapters 14 and 15 deal with the "Ecology of Arctic Birds" and "Indigenous Peoples..." The bird chapter summarizes facts about the biologies of Arctic species without going into detail how the few resident species survive the winter. Chapters 2 and 3, headed "Arctic Ecology - A Paleoenvironmental Perspective" and "Climate Change in the Arctic", respectively, deal with it, but otherwise there is little information on this important issue. Whenever I lectured about the Arctic, I consulted "The Ecology of Greenland", edited by Erik W. Born and Jens Böcher ([1]), which I had bought in Nuuk in 2003. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars" by Michael E. Mann.

The article reviews the book "Fairness in Adaptation to Climate Change," by W. N. Adger, J. Paavola, S. Huq, and M. J. Mace.

The article reviews the book "Gaia and Climate Change: a Theology of Gift Events," by Anne Primavesi.

The article reviews the book "Darkening Peaks: Glacier Retreat, Science and Society," edited by Ben Orlove, Ellen Wiegandt and Brian H. Luckman.

The article reviews the book "Cool It," by Bjorn Lomborg.

The article reviews the book "The Weather Makers," by Tim Flannery.

Reviews the book "Climate Policy in a Globalizing World--A CGE Model With Capital Mobility and Trade," by K. Springer.

The article reviews the book "Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet," by Bill McKibben.

The article reviews the book "Climate Change In The Mediterranean," by Carlo Giupponi.

The article reviews the book "The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches From the Front Lines," by Michael E. Mann.

The article reviews the book "Smart Solutions to Climate Change: Comparing Costs and Benefits," by Bjørn Lomborg.

The article reviews the book "The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You About Global Warming," by Roger Pielke Jr.

The article reviews the book "The Health Practitioner's Guide to Climate Change: Diagnosis and Cure," edited by Jenny Griffiths, Mala Rao, Fiona Adshead, and Allison Thorpe.

The article reviews the exhibition "Atmosphere...The Climate Revealed by Ice," at the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Paris, until April 30, 2009.

The article reviews the books "The Winds of Change: Climate,Weather and the Destruction of Civilizations," by Eugene Linden and "The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change," by Tim Flannery.

The article reviews the book "The Great Ocean Conveyor: Discovering the Trigger for Abrupt Climate Change," by Wally Broecker.

The article reviews the exhibition "Earth: Art of a Changing World" at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, England until January 31, 2010.