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DJ Williams , RA Durie , P McMullan , CAJ Paulson , AY Smith

The control of greenhouse gas emissions continues to be a major global problem. It is inter-disciplinary, both in substance and approach, and covers technical, political and economic issues involving governments, industry and the scientific …

Imogen Jubb , Paul Holper , Wenju Cai

A number of international, high-level science and policy meetings have been influential in the ongoing global climate change negotiations. One of these landmark meetings was Greenhouse 2009, where those involved in research, policy and communication …

WJ Bouma , GI Pearman , MR Manning

Consideration of climate change deals increasingly with impacts and responses, and therefore involves a wide range of technical issues and a diverse community of experts. One of the challenges faced is that of ensuring effective communication …

Brett P Murphy , Andrew C Edwards , CP (Mick) Meyer , Jeremy Russell-Smith

In the context of Australia’s developing carbon economy, fire management helps to abate emissions of greenhouse gases and is an important means of generating carbon credits. The vast high-rainfall savannas of northern Australia are one of …

GI Pearman

It is important for the reader to understand clearly the objectives of these papers. They are not an attempt to provide accurate predictions of what is going to happen in Australia over the next few decades. Rather they represent sensitivity …

David Shaw , Jasmine Fellows , Kath Kovac

Let’s get hands-on with 50 fun science activities! The best-selling team behind Hands-On Science present 50 more fun DIY science activities. In More Hands-On Science you’ll be blown away by interesting experiments, reactions, …

David D Yencken , Debra D Wilkinson

Resetting the Compass: Australia's Journey Towards Sustainability Updated Edition sets out Australia's environmental problems in their global context and explains what is now needed to fix them. It also illustrates how ecological …

Chris Stokes , Mark Howden

Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change is a fundamental resource for primary industry professionals, land managers, policy makers, researchers and students involved in preparing Australia’s primary industries for the challenges and …

Jim Skea , Paul Ekins , Mark Winskel

The UK is committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80% by 2050, a target that will only be achieved by transforming the way that energy is supplied and used. At the same time there are anxieties about the security of …

Peter J Cook

Carbon capture and geological storage (CCS) is presently the only way that we can make deep cuts in emissions from fossil fuel-based, large-scale sources of CO2 such as power stations and industrial plants. But if this technology is to be …

Ralph E Horne , Tim Grant , Karli Verghese

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has developed in Australia over the last 20 years into a technique for systematically identifying the resource flows and environmental impacts associated with the provision of products and services. Interest in …

Peter J Cook

With the general reader in mind, Clean Energy, Climate and Carbon outlines the global challenge of decreasing greenhouse gas emissions. It covers the changing concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide through time and its causes, …

Helen Cleugh , Mark Stafford Smith , Michael Battaglia , Paul Graham

Climate change is the greatest ecological, economic, and social challenge of our time. Climate change research over many years shows links between human activities and global and ocean warming, changes in rain and wind patterns, and …

Brendan Mackey , David Lindenmayer , Malcolm Gill , Michael McCarthy , Janette Lindesay

The conservation of Earth's forest ecosystems is one of the great environmental challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. All of Earth's ecosystems now face the spectre of the accelerated greenhouse effect and rates of change in climatic …