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Hinterland
Hinterland is a new quarterly magazine showcasing the best in creative non-fiction writing. Each issue features a stellar line-up of writing talent from around the globe: stories …
The Earthscan Reader on Adaptation to Climate Change
Climate change is now upon us. While mitigation is essential to reduce the future severity of climate change, it will take time and some effects will inevitably continue for …
Picture Perfect
The British cinema has drawn extensively on our national landscapes. Filmmakers have explored the entrenched myth of an idyllic rural tradition, intimately bound up with a popular …
Children in Need
Children are in need of support not due to any fault on their part but due to their circumstances. Local authorities have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children …
The Environment As Hazard, Second Edition
The disastrous effects of natural hazards such as earthquakes, floods, and hurricanes are often called “Acts of God.”' Challenging that view, this work depicts natural hazards as …
Atlas of Extreme Facial Cancer
This book shares an expert experience in managing difficult facial skin cancer and presents rare cases from the authors's own practice. The content follows an anatomical approach …
Biometeorology for Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change
Biometeorology continues to grow as a discipline. It is increasingly recognised for its importance in providing science of relevance to society and well being of the environment. …
Geography, Resources and Environment
Over the course of half a century, Gilbert F. White's work has served to shape and, in several instances, establish many of the fields that have come to be known as the …
Climate Change and Adaptation
?This book provides valuable lessons that will improve public policy and the quality of decisions that will affect generations to come.? Richard Moss, Senior Director Climate and …
Disaster Theory
Disaster Theory: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Concepts and Causes offers the theoretical background needed to understand what disasters are and why they occur. Drawing on …
Climate Change and Vulnerability and Adaptation
'Sound and solid case studies on vulnerability and adaptation have been woefully lacking in the international discourse on climate change. This set of books begins to bridge the …