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Cities have been essential for human development and socioeconomic development. Cities have shaped the environment and the climate system for many years. The rate of impact has accelerated since th...

This is a very timely book. On 28 July 2016, the French utility company, EDF, approved the investment for a new nuclear power station at Hinckley Point. This will be the first nuclear power station...

As the opening of this book points out, technological interventions can often have significant impacts. An example of this is the impact of digital camera technology, either stand alone or in mobil...

This is the fifth edition of books arising from the British-Caribbean Geography Seminar Series. The book comprises articles that are based on conference papers. The book is in three parts. Part one...

by Robin W. Dougherty and Virginia Carmichael, Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales, Introduction by John Croxall, Mildred Wyatt-Wold series in Ornithology, University of Texas Press, Austin, 2011, ...

The paper reviews the problems impeding adaptation to the effects of climate change, but discerns hopeful trends.

Volume I Policy and Regulatory Aspects, p. 100 ISBN 9241546824; Volume II Wastewater Use in Agriculture. p196. ISBN 9241546832; Volume III wastewater and Excreta in Aquaculture. p. 140. ISBN 924154...

To make any progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a new approach to energy systems for the poorer nations is needed. Equally, a new approach to energy should shape thinking in the developed and industrializing world about energy futures. All countries need to have access to clean, affordable and reliable energy services that do not exacerbate the climate change risks. A global energy policy will emerge, but by the backdoor of environment policy. This article is in three parts. First, it examines the problem in the developing world. Second, it -establishes a framework for evaluating the approach to energy systems. Third, it argues that technology transfer as commonly practised is not an appropriate vector. In concluding, this article sets out an approach at international level.

Two interlinked and complex problems face energy policy‐makers: future energy supplies and climate change. The choices made on energy mix will lock development pathways for some considerable time ahead. Climate change is a challenging problem. Decarbonising the energy system requires sustainable and environmentally friendly technologies that work within the context of the planetary environment and do not cause “collateral damage”. Several approaches are available. But nuclear power is an unsustainable technology that has already caused “collateral damage” and will leave a toxic legacy of waste, for which there appears to be no solution. Including nuclear in a future energy system is a step in the wrong direction.

This book’s nine chapters look at various ways in which climate change will impact coastlines throughout the world. The editors (who also contribute to several parts of the book) set the scene in P...

by Forest Rohwer with Merry Youle, illustrations by Derek Vosten, Plaid Press, USA, 2010, 201 pp., US$19.95 (ISBN 978 0 9827012 0 1). Occupying one percent of the Earth’s sea floor and home to some...

This is a fascinating book. I was aware that nitrogen plays a vital role in the provision of ecosystem services. But what the author does is to link nitrogen, or more correctly, nitrogen fixing, to...