Textbooks
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If you are a lecturer, you will be able to order a free inspection copy of any of the textbooks listed on this page. Simply, click on the desired book and select a link called 'request inspection copies' which is featured in a green box called 'Textbook'.
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Principles of International Environmental Law
3rd Edition
Philippe Sands, University College London
Jacqueline Peel, University of Melbourne
The third edition of this classic textbook offers comprehensive and critical commentary on international environmental law. It fully covers the key topics of the course and is clearly structured to include the history and framework in which international environmental law exists, key areas of regulation and implementation, links to other areas of law and future developments.
Dimensions: 247 x 174 mm
978-0-521-14093-5 Paperback c. £38.00
Also available in Hardback
Introduction to Modern Climate Change
Andrew Dessler, Texas A & M University
This textbook is tightly focused on the problem of anthropogenic climate change. It is unique among textbooks on climate change in that it combines an introduction of the science with an introduction to the non-science issues such as the economic and policy options.
67 b/w illus. 11 colour illus. 6 maps 5 tables 120 exercises
Dimensions: 253 x 177 mm
978-0-521-17315-5 Paperback £29.99
Also available in Hardback
Climate Change and Climate Modeling
J. David Neelin, University of California, Los Angeles
Provides students with a solid foundation in climate science, with which to understand global warming, natural climate variations, and climate models. As climate models are one of our primary tools for predicting and adapting to climate change, it is vital we appreciate their strengths and limitations.
304 pages
137 b/w illus. 8 tables
Dimensions: 246 x 189 mm
Weight: 0.65kg
978-0-521-60243-3 Paperback £29.95
Also available in Hardback
Controlling Climate Change
Bert Metz
Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
Presents a cutting edge overview of tackling and adapting to climate change, written by a lead member of the IPCC.
2009 246 x 189 mm 352pp 167 b/w illus. 8 colour illus. 44 tables
978-0-521-74784-4 Paperback c. £ 29.99
Also available in Hardback
Global Warming
The Complete Briefing
Fourth edition
John Houghton
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Houghton’s market-leading textbook, now in full colour and with the latest IPCC findings, is the definitive guide to climate change.
"the definitive scientific book on global warming by one of the few authors who is actually in a position to give a 'complete briefing." David Lorimer, Director, Scientific and Medical Network
2009 246 x 189 mm 456pp 60 b/w illus. 332 colour illus. 19 tables
978-0-521-70916-3 Paperback £ 24.99
Also available in Hardback
Hydroclimatology
Perspectives and Applications
Marlyn L. Shelton
University of California, Davis
A graduate textbook on the interdisciplinary significance of hydroclimatology, explaining the relationship between the climate system and the hydrologic cycle.
2008 247 x 174 mm 438pp 54 b/w illus.
978-0-521-84888-6 Paperback £ 45.00
Ecological Climatology
Concepts and Applications
Second edition
Gordon B. Bonan
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
"... successfully integrates fundamental concepts in climatology and ecology ... I highly recommend the text for climatologists and meteorologists interested in better understanding the role of vegetation in the climate system, or ecologists and plant physiologists interested in better understanding the role of the climate system in vegetated ecosystems." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
2008 246 x 189 mm 568pp 24 colour illus. 84 tables
978-0-521-70916-3 Paperback £ 24.99
Also available in Hardback
Mountain Weather and Climate
Third edition
Roger G. Barry
University of Colorado, Boulder
A key reference for graduates and researchers in mountain meteorology, climatology and related disciplines.
2008 246 x 189 mm 512pp 179 b/w illus.
978-0-521-68158-2 Paperback £ 40.00
Also available in Hardback
Oil, Water, and Climate
An Introduction
Catherine Gautier
University of California, Santa Barbara
"'Catherine Gautier deserves congratulations for creating a textbook that not only deals with these three topics, but most important, also draws them together and shows how they are connected. … Gautier's perspective is global and as such, the book will broaden students' perspectives. … Oil, Water and Climate does a great job of making these important topics accessible to undergraduate students. It brings together many important ideas in Earth science, technology and global policy." EOS
2008 253 x 177 mm 392pp
978-0-521-70919-4 Paperback £ 24.99
Also available in Hardback
Climate Change
A Multidisciplinary Approach
Second edition
William James Burroughs
"... a recommended read for the informed layman and student seeking a wider background in this topical but complex field." Grant Bigg, Weather
"The book is well written, contains practically no mathematics and yet manages to explain, in a clear and attractive style, the subtleties of the subject … I recommend it to everybody interested in the climate of our earth." Michael Hantel, Meteoroligsche Zeitschrift
2007 247 x 174 mm 390pp 29 exercises
978-0-521-69033-1 Paperback £ 29.99
Also available in Hardback
Environmental Protection, Law and Policy
Text and Materials
2nd Edition
Jane Holder
"this is an excellent work, worth being read by experts and beginners alike. there is much to challenge and provoke those who feel they know the field - but also much to inspire an undergraduate new to the field." Journal of Environmental Law
2007 818pp
978-0-521-69026-3 Paperback £ 43.00
Also available in ebooks format
Human Impacts on Weather and Climate
Second edition
William R. Cotton
Colorado State University
and Roger A. Pielke, Sr.
University of Colorado, Boulder
"Contents-wise this is an excellent book … It is written with great honesty and courage, attacking many of the sacred tenets of weather modification and of climatic doomsday predictions." Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics
2007 247 x 174 mm 330pp 84 b/w illus. 20 colour illus.
978-0-521-60056-9 Paperback £ 29.99
Also available in Hardback
The Global Climate System
Patterns, Processes, and Teleconnections
Howard A. Bridgman
University of Newcastle, New South Wales
and John E. Oliver
Indiana State University
"... it is likely that Bridgman and Oliver will become widely used in undergraduate climate courses as it provides something quite different to standard textbooks on climatology. This is what makes it interesting reading." Times Higher Education Supplement
"... it should be on the shelves of good institutional libraries." Climatic Change
2006 246 x 189 mm 350pp 63 b/w illus. 8 colour illus. 26 tables
978-0-521-82642-6 Hardback £ 40.00
The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change
A Guide to the Debate
Andrew E. Dessler
Texas A & M University
and Edward A. Parson
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
"...requires no specialised knowledge, but is accessible to any educated general reader who wants to make more sense of the climate change debate. It also sheds light on how science is used in policy debates.". The Chemical Engineer
2006 247 x 174 mm 200pp 18 b/w illus. 4 tables
978-0-521-53941-8 Paperback £ 22.99
Also available in Hardback