50 de mest populära böckerna i Sverige●Miljö

Nyss antagen till UD:s diplomatprogram skickas Andreas Norman till Thailand, dagarna efter tsunamin i Indiska oceanen den 26 december 2004. Oförberedd hamnar han mitt i krishanteringen efter en av de värsta naturkatastroferna i modern tid. Tio år efter flodvågen skriver han nu om sin om sina upplevelser, sin sorg och sin vrede. 9,3 på Richterskalan är en ögonvittnesskildring ur en ung UD-tjänstemans perspektiv – det kaotiska arbetet, hanteringen av döda och mötet med överlevande. En...

Releasedatum: 2014-10-07 79,00 kr

In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical - and accessible - plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe. Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet's slide toward certain enviro...

Releasedatum: 2021-02-16 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 115,00 kr

De senaste århundrandena har vi kunnat avnjuta historiens största gratislunch. Det fossila bränslet har gett oss en frihet som människan tidigare bara kunnat drömma om. Men: Oljereserverna minskar utan möjlighet till påfyllning, samtidigt som vårt beroende av de sinande resurserna bara ökar. Att säga att det inte bådar gott är en underdrift. Det här är en bok om oljan och dess ändlighet. Den innehåller siffror, diagram och matematiska kurvor -- men försöker också att ge ett sa...

Releasedatum: 2016-04-06 79,00 kr

På en alltmer befolkad, fullt ut globaliserad, och allt mer miljömässigt och socialt turbulent värld, står den mänskliga utvecklingen och väger. Vart ska vi tippa? Kommer vi att röra oss mot en demokratisk och fredlig framtid där planeten fortsätter att stödja den moderna ekonomin tack vare en omställning till en hållbar värld? Eller tippar vi i en annan riktning, kanske mot en alltmer polariserad värld där nationer bygger murar för att skydda sina sociala och ekologiska ”oase...

Releasedatum: 2012-12-27 9,00 kr

”Jag lovar er, det är mycket värre än ni tror”. Med denna ödesmättade mening inledde David Wallace-Wells sin artikel ”Den obeboeliga planeten” som snabbt blev den mest lästa i New York Magazines historia. I boken, som bygger ut artikelns premisser, försöker han ge en sannare bild av klimatförändringarnas förödande konsekvenser, i polemik mot det önsketänkande som velat tona ner efterverkningarna. "Den obeboeliga planeten" har hyllats av kritikerkåren – ”den mest omskak...

Releasedatum: 2019-08-27 89,00 kr

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. No One is Too Small to Make a Difference collects Greta Thunberg's history-making speeches, from addresses at climate rallies around the world audiences at the UN, the World Economic Forum, and the British Parliament. Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend the planet, and a...

Releasedatum: 2019-05-30 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 55,00 kr

**SUNDAY TIMES AND THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** 'An epoch-defining book' Matt Haig 'If you read just one work of non-fiction this year, it should probably be this' David Sexton, Evening Standard Selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by the Sunday Times, Spectator and New Statesman A Waterstones Paperback of the Year and shortlisted for the Foyles Book of the Year 2019 Longlisted for the PEN / E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award It is worse, much worse, than you think. The slowness of cli...

Releasedatum: 2019-02-19 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 115,00 kr

Now a National Bestseller!  Climate change is real but it’s not the end of the world. It is not even our most serious environmental problem. Michael Shellenberger has been fighting for a greener planet for decades. He helped save the world’s last unprotected redwoods. He co-created the predecessor to today’s Green New Deal. And he led a successful effort by climate scientists and activists to keep nuclear plants operating, preventing a spike of emissions. But in 2019, as some claimed ...

Releasedatum: 2020-06-30 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 209,00 kr

Över hela världen tas initiativ för en långsiktigt hållbar energiproduktion. Men chanserna att vända utvecklingen med 100 procent förnybar energi är små. I denna bok visar författarna hur redan befintlig teknik drastiskt kan minska mänsklighetens klimatpåverkan.

Releasedatum: 2019-07-05 149,00 kr

A penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human Earth In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers an utterly original approach to questions of humanity's impact on the planet: he asks us to envision our Earth, without us.In this far-reaching narrative, Weisman explains how our massive infrastructure would collapse and finally vanish without human presence; which everyday items may become immortalized as fossils; how copper pipes and wiring would be crushed into mere seams of reddish rock; why ...

Releasedatum: 2007-07-10 115,00 kr

Revised Edition with New Afterword from the Author Time #1 Nonfiction Book of the Year Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Over 3 million copies sold in 35 Languages "On the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - or houses, that is. Cleans them right off the face of the earth. They all go." What if mankind disappeared right now, forever... what would happen to the Earth in a week, a year, a millennium? Could the planet's climate ever...

Releasedatum: 2012-08-31 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 129,00 kr

*A Times, Financial Times, Observer and Nature Book of the Year* We still have time to change the world. From Greta Thunberg, the world's leading climate activist, comes the essential handbook for making it happen. You might think it's an impossible task: secure a safe future for life on Earth, at a scale and speed never seen, against all the odds. There is hope - but only if we listen to the science before it's too late. In The Climate Book, Greta Thunberg has gathered the wisdom of over one hu...

Releasedatum: 2022-10-27 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 209,00 kr

Why are we drawn to the ocean each summer? Why does being near water set our minds and bodies at ease? In Blue Mind , Wallace J. Nichols revolutionizes how we think about these questions, revealing the remarkable truth about the benefits of being in, on, under, or simply near water. Grounded in cutting-edge studies in neurobiology, cognitive psychology, economics, and medicine, and made real by stories of innovative scientists, doctors, athletes, artists, environmentalists, businesspeople and lo...

Releasedatum: 2014-06-12 19,00 kr

“A history of the human brain from the big bang, fifteen billion years ago, to the day before yesterday . . . It's a delight.”— The New York Times Dr. Carl Sagan takes us on a great reading adventure, offering his vivid and startling insight into the brain of man and beast, the origin of human intelligence, the function of our most haunting legends—and their amazing links to recent discoveries.  “How can I persuade every intelligent person to read this important and elegant book? ...

Releasedatum: 1977-04-12 79,00 kr

Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and staggeringly expensive actions now being considered to meet the challenges of global warming ultimately will have little impact on the world’s temperature. He suggests that rather than focusing on ineffective solutions that will cost us trillions of dollars over the coming decades, we should be looking for smarter, more cost-effective approaches (such as massively increasing our commitment to green energy R&D) that will allow us to deal n...

Releasedatum: 2007-09-04 69,00 kr

"This is, for my money, the best single-source primer on the state of climate change." - New York Magazine "The right book at the right time: accessible, comprehensive, unflinching, humane." - The Daily Beast "A must-read." - The Guardian The essential primer on what will be the defining issue of our time, Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know® is a clear-eyed overview of the science, conflicts, and implications of our warming planet. From Joseph Romm, Chief Science Advisor for National G...

Releasedatum: 2018-04-02 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 139,00 kr

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER For the first time ever, an international coalition of leading researchers, scientists and policymakers has come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. All of the techniques described here - some well-known, some you may have never heard of - are economically viable, and communities throughout the world are already enacting them. From revolutionizing how we produce and consume food to educating girls in lower-income countries, these a...

Releasedatum: 2018-02-22 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 159,00 kr

The Top Ten Bestseller Black holes. DNA. The Large Hadron Collider. Ever had that sneaking feeling that you are missing out on some truly spectacular science? You do? Well, fear not, for help is at hand. Ben Miller was working on his Physics PhD at Cambridge when he accidentally became a comedian. But first love runs deep, and he has returned to his roots to share with you all his favourite bits of science. This is the stuff you really need to know, not only because it matters but because it wil...

Releasedatum: 2012-07-12 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 45,00 kr

”Vi håller på att nå en social tipping point. Fyra krafter – sociala rörelser, en ny ekonomisk logik, teknisk utveckling och politiskt handlande – håller redan på att knuffa samhället över en tippningspunkt som gör att vi hamnar i självförstärkande goda cirklar, i ”En jord för alla”-värld.” För fem decennier sedan chockade bokenTillväxtens gränservärlden genom att visa att befolkningsökning och industriell tillväxt hotade mänskligheten. Idag inser allt fler att v...

Releasedatum: 2023-01-09 129,00 kr

Extinction Rebellion are inspiring a whole generation to take action on climate breakdown. Now you can become part of the movement - and together, we can make history. It's time. This is our last chance to do anything about the global climate and ecological emergency. Our last chance to save the world as we know it. Now or never, we need to be radical. We need to rise up. And we need to rebel. Extinction Rebellion is a global activist movement of ordinary people, demanding action from Government...

Releasedatum: 2019-06-13 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 85,00 kr

The year is 2393, and the world is almost unrecognizable. Clear warnings of climate catastrophe went ignored for decades, leading to soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, widespread drought and—finally—the disaster now known as the Great Collapse of 2093, when the disintegration of the West Antarctica Ice Sheet led to mass migration and a complete reshuffling of the global order. Writing from the Second People's Republic of China on the 300th anniversary of the Great Collapse, a senior sc...

Releasedatum: 2014-07-01 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 79,00 kr

Gaia, in which James Lovelock puts forward his inspirational and controversial idea that the Earth functions as a single organism, with life influencing planetary processes to form a self-regulating system aiding its own survival, is now a classic work that continues to provoke heated scientific debate.

Releasedatum: 2000-09-28 119,00 kr

'It's a paradox but this was one of the most chilling books I've read this year. It's the definitive guide to where we're heading ' ANTHONY HOROWITZ 'The Earth is already in a dangerous phase of heating. Many scientists admit privately to actually being "scared" by recent weather extremes. But the public doesn't like pessimism, so we environment journalists hint at future optimism. This book provides a more steely-eyed view on how we can cope with a hothouse world.' - ROGER HARRABIN, former BBC ...

Releasedatum: 2022-07-28 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 129,00 kr

With a new afterword, Why You Are Here: A speech on the opening of the COP26 climate summit As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us, barely noticeable from day to day - the loss of our planet's wild places, its biodiversity. I have been witness to this decline. A Life on Our Planet contains my witness statement, and my vision for the future - the story of how we...

Releasedatum: 2020-10-01 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 115,00 kr

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward. “A powerful read that fills one with, dare I say . . . hope?”— The New York Times   NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE There is a renaissance blooming in the climate movement: leadership that is more characteristically feminine and more faithfully feminist, rooted in compa...

Releasedatum: 2020-09-22 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 129,00 kr

'Excellent . . . analyses clearly and authoritatively how the coronavirus pandemic played out, what governments should have done, and what we need to do when it happens again - as it undoubtedly will' Financial Times 'You could not hope for a better guide to the pandemic world order than Debora MacKenzie, who's been on this story from the start. This is an authoritative yet readable explanation of how this catastrophe happened - and more important, how it will happen again if we don't change' Ti...

Releasedatum: 2020-06-05 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 49,00 kr

A Guardian 'Top 10 Nature Memoirs' pick 'Poetic and heartful' Guardian Icelandic author and activist Andri Snær Magnason's 'Letter to the Future', an extraordinary and moving eulogy for the lost Okjökull glacier, made global news and was shared by millions. Now he attempts to come to terms with the issues we all face in his new book On Time and Water. Magnason writes of the melting glaciers, the rising seas and acidity changes that haven't been seen for 50 million years. These are changes that...

Releasedatum: 2020-08-06 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 59,00 kr

'This is Bill McKibben at his glorious best. Wise and warning, with everything on the line. Do not miss it' Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine Thirty years ago, Bill McKibben wrote The End of Nature , the first book that alerted us to the dangers of climate change. Falter is a new call to arms, to save not only our planet but our very souls as well. Over tens of thousands of years, through the harnessing of nature, the development of civilization, and the appli...

Releasedatum: 2019-04-16 35,00 kr

From the best-selling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493 --an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first century will choose to live in tomorrow's world. In forty years, Earth's population will reach ten billion. Can our world support that? What kind of world will it be? Those answering these questions...

Releasedatum: 2018-01-23 85,00 kr

Everything you thought you knew about nuclear power is wrong. This is just as well, according to Mark Lynas in Nuclear 2.0, because nuclear energy is essential to avoid catastrophic global warming. Using the latest world energy statistics, Lynas shows that with wind and solar still at only about 1 percent of global primary energy, asking renewables to deliver all the world's power is "dangerously delusional". Moreover, there is no possibility of worldwide energy use decreasing, when ...

Releasedatum: 2014-01-30 65,00 kr

Älskade sommarprataren är tillbaka med glittrande berättelser om vårt samspel med naturen. Du och jag är invävda i naturens flätverk, mycket tätare än du tror. Miljontals arter är livsnödvändiga för att vi ska få mat, medicin och en beboelig livsmiljö, förutom all den kunskap och glädje naturen bereder oss. På sitt engagerande vis berättar hyllade sommarprataren Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson spännande och tankeväckande berättelser om naturens dolda samspel. Hon tar med oss ut i re...

Releasedatum: 2021-04-14 139,00 kr

»En av världens mest inflytelserika tänkare i frågor om klimat och kapital.« Ola Söderholm En stridsskrift från en av samtidens mest främsta röster i klimatfrågor Betydelsen av seklets första verkligt stora pandemi kan inte underskattas. Regeringar talar om krig, samtidigt som de säger att allt snart ska bli som vanligt. Men tänk om normaliteten inte längre är möjlig? Om världen trots allt kan mobilisera sig på det vis som den gjorde våren 2020, borde det även vara möjligt a...

Releasedatum: 2021-02-12 119,00 kr

** Los Angeles Times bestseller ** It's warming. It's us. We're sure. It's bad. But we can fix it. After speaking to the international public for close to fifteen years about sustainability, climate scientist Dr. Nicholas realized that concerned people were getting the wrong message about the climate crisis. Yes, companies and governments are hugely responsible for the mess we're in. But individuals CAN effect real, significant, and lasting change to solve this problem. Nicholas explores finding...

Releasedatum: 2021-03-23 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 95,00 kr

A new type of Cold War is emerging between China and the West. . The global order is being simultaneously shaken by climate change and the shale revolution in oil and gas - and now by the coronavirus. Controversial fracking technology has given America unprecedented leverage as the world's leading energy powerhouse, ahead of Saudi Arabia and Russia, upending the chessboard of global politics and changing the psychology of the global economy. Despite being weighed down by sanctions, Russia is piv...

Releasedatum: 2020-09-15 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 149,00 kr

'It is terrific. I can't remember the last time I read a book that was more fascinating and useful and enjoyable all at the same time.' Bill Bryson How Bad Are Bananas? was a groundbreaking book when first published in 2009, when most of us were hearing the phrase 'carbon footprint' for the first time. Mike Berners-Lee set out to inform us what was important (aviation, heating, swimming pools) and what made very little difference (bananas, naturally packaged, are good!). This new edition updates...

Releasedatum: 2020-09-03 55,00 kr

'Hope Jahren asks the central question of our time: how can we learn to live on a finite planet? The Story of More is thoughtful, informative and - above all - essential' Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction Hope Jahren is an award-winning geobiologist, a brilliant writer, an inspiring teacher, and one of the seven billion people with whom we share this earth. In The Story of More , Jahren illuminates the link between human consumption habits and our imperiled planet. In short, high...

Releasedatum: 2020-03-05 69,00 kr

A fantastic voyage through 15,000 years of history that laid the foundations for civilisation as we know it by award-winning science writer Steven Mithen. Twenty thousand years ago Earth was in the midst of an ice age. Then global warming arrived, leading to massive floods, the spread of forests and the retreat of the deserts. By 5,000 BC a radically different human world had appeared. In place of hunters and gatherers there were farmers; in place of transient campsites there were towns. The fou...

Releasedatum: 2011-12-08 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 45,00 kr

What we do to the soil, we do to ourselves. Soil is the unlikely story of our most maligned resource as swashbuckling hero. A saga of bombs, ice ages and civilisations falling. Of ancient hunger, modern sicknesses and gastronomic delight. It features poison gas, climate collapse and a mind-blowing explanation of how rain is formed. For too long, we've not only neglected the land beneath us, we've squandered and debased it, by over-clearing, over-grazing and over-ploughing. But if we want our foo...

Releasedatum: 2021-07-02 69,00 kr

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. Taking us on an extraordinary journey into the past and around the globe, from coral reefs to the North Pole, deserts to rainforests, Tim Flannery's A Warning from the Golden Toad tells the story of the earth's climate, and how we have changed it. Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voic...

Releasedatum: 2021-08-26 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 55,00 kr

'Punchy and to the point. No beating around the bush. This brilliant book contains all the information we need to have in our back pocket in order to move forward' Christiana Figueres, Former Executive Secretary UN Climate Change Convention 'Amazing book' Chris Evans, Virgin Radio Breakfast Show 'Everyone should have this book' Rick Edwards, BBC Radio 5 Live 'A timely and important book, not only laying out the facts...but suggesting real solutions to the challenges facing us' Professor Alice Ro...

Releasedatum: 2021-05-06 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 99,00 kr

United Nations Champion of the Earth, climate scientist, and evangelical Christian Katharine Hayhoe changes the debate on how we can save our future in this nationally bestselling “optimistic view on why collective action is still possible—and how it can be realized” ( The New York Times ). Called “one of the nation’s most effective communicators on climate change” by The New York Times , Katharine Hayhoe knows how to navigate all sides of the conversation on our changing planet. A C...

Releasedatum: 2021-09-21 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 169,00 kr

Klimatförändringar, sinande olja, ekonomiska kollapser och massutrotning – ibland är det svårt att ens orka tänka på vår tids sociala och ekologiska kriser. Aktivt hopp visar hur vi kan bli bättre på att möta stora utmaningar med mod, kreativitet och medkänsla. I boken vägleds vi genom en förvandlingsresa inspirerad av mytiska äventyr, modern psykologi, andlighet och holistisk vetenskap. På vägen hittar vi de verktyg vi behöver för att hantera kriserna och spela vår roll i d...

Releasedatum: 2020-06-13 89,00 kr

'A very funny, important and only moderately terrifying clarion call of a book' - Adam Kay 'HOT MESS provides loads of laughs about "the climate situation" and will position you at the right point between fear and determination' - Mark Watson 'Hilarious, informative and worrying in equal measure. And that's just the bits about having a baby' - Josie Long For fans of Randall Munro's WHAT IF? Matt Parker's HUMBLE PI and anyone looking for practical tips on how to stop the end of the world! Dr Matt...

Releasedatum: 2021-11-11 59,00 kr

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Everyone should read this book' MATT HAIG 'One of the most inspiring books I have ever read' YUVAL NOAH HARARI 'Inspirational, compassionate and clear. The time to read this is NOW' MARK RUFFALO 'Figueres and Rivett-Carnac dare to tell us how our response can create a better, fairer world' NAOMI KLEIN ***** Discover why there's hope for the planet and how we can each make a difference in the climate crisis, starting today. Humanity is not doomed, and we can and will ...

Releasedatum: 2020-02-25 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 65,00 kr

Varför gör vi inte det vi egentligen vet att vi måste göra? Varför stannar vi kvar i ett system som sakta men säkert försämrar förutsättningarna för liv på jorden, som förstör allas vår framtid? I Det minsta vi kan göra är så mycket som möjligt och lite till beskriver meteorologen Pär Holmgren de utmaningar vi står inför när det gäller klimatet och vad vi behöver göra för att ställa om samhället i hållbar riktning. Han förklarar hur de globala utmaningarna hänger ...

Releasedatum: 2019-05-13 149,00 kr

‘Nathaniel Rich’s account starts in Washington in the 1990s and tells the story of how climate change could have been stopped back then, if only the powerful had acted. But they didn’t want to.’ – Observer By 1979, we knew all that we know now about the science of climate change – what was happening, why it was happening, and how to stop it. Over the next ten years, we had the very real opportunity to stop it. Obviously, we failed. Nathaniel Rich tells the essential story of why and ...

Releasedatum: 2019-04-18 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 59,00 kr

Enough plastic is thrown away every year to circle the world 4 times More than 8 million tonnes of plastic enter the oceans each year 300 million tonnes of new plastic is produced every year An estimated 15-51 trillion pieces of plastic now litter the world's oceans 38.5 million plastic bottles are used every day in the UK A million plastic bottles are used per minute around the world 500 million plastic straws are used per year Without big action, at the current rate, pieces of plastic will out...

Releasedatum: 2018-07-26 49,00 kr

It is accepted wisdom today that human beings have irrevocably damaged the natural world. Yet what if this narrative obscures a more hopeful truth? In Inheritors of the Earth , renowned ecologist and environmentalist Chris D. Thomas overturns the accepted story, revealing how nature is fighting back. Many animals and plants actually benefit from our presence, raising biological diversity in most parts of the world and increasing the rate at which new species are formed, perhaps to the highest le...

Releasedatum: 2017-07-06 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 115,00 kr

'Utterly extraordinary ... the starkest book I've read on the impacts of accelerating climate change for a very long time ... if we're not listening to the likes of Peter Wadhams, then we too are in denial' Jonathon Porritt Most of the scientific establishment predict that the North Pole will be free of ice around the middle of this century. As Peter Wadhams, the world's leading expert on sea ice, demonstrates in this book, even this assessment of the future is optimistic. Wadhams has visited th...

Releasedatum: 2016-09-01 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 115,00 kr

'Our relationship with nature has changed . . . radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with invention. Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable.' In The Human Age award-winning nature writer Diane Ackerman confronts the fact that the human race is now the single dominant force of change on the planet. Humans have 'subdued 75 per cent of the land surface, concocted a wizardry of industrial and medical marvels, strung lights all across the d...

Releasedatum: 2014-09-11 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 49,00 kr