Climate Change
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Social Side of River Management
River management faces many challenges world-wide including climate change, flood risks and the demand for more adaptive and 'ecosystem-based' systems. This book offers various examples and theories on how to avoid conflict and enter into fruitful...
Intergenerational Justice
Is it fair to leave the next generation a public debt? Is it defensible to impose legal rules on them through constitutional constraints? From combating climate change to ensuring proper funding for future pensions, concerns about ethics between...
Feeling the Heat
To avoid uncontrolled climate change, greenhouse gas emissions will have to be brought under control by major emitters outside the affluent West. The authors investigate the political obstacles in BRIC countries and what their governments could do...
Energy Security in the Era of Climate Change
Luca Anceschi (Editor), Jonathan Symons (Editor)
Managing Forest Carbon in a Changing Climate
Mark S Ashton (Editor), Mary L. Tyrrell (Editor), Deborah Spalding (Editor)
Economics with MyEconLab Access Card
Economics touches almost every aspect of life, from climate change to terrorism, taxes to house prices, wages, to how much time to spend studying. Thinking like an economist will enable you to evaluate economic policies, understand human...
Climate Change - Significance for Agriculture and Forestry
David H. White (Editor), S.Mark Howden (Editor)
Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation
Comprehensive, objective assessment of the literature on renewable energy and its role in climate change mitigation for policymakers, professionals, researchers. This Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report (IPCC-SRREN) assesses...
Capitalism and Climate Change
This book discusses climate change as a social issue, examining the incompatibility of capitalist development and Earth's physical limits and how these have been regulated in different ways. It addresses the links between modes of consumption...
Climate Change and Common Sense
An overview of the fundamental political and economic processes driving climate change policy that highlights the work of Nobel Laureate Tom Schelling. It identifies the institutional arrangements needed to design more effective policy and...
Ocean Circulation
Advanced textbook covering two important aspects of large-scale ocean circulation - wind-driven circulation, and thermohaline-driven circulation caused by changes in water density. The interaction between ocean circulation and climate change has...
The Common Good and the Global Emergency
Provides a theoretical and political framework of the common good, and applies this to the built environment. Planning and architecture have to be understood in relation to climate change and peak oil, and the concept of the common good is key to...
Plant Reintroduction in a Changing Climate
Joyce Maschinski (Editor), Kristin E. Haskins (Editor)
Crop Stress Management & Global Climate Change
CONTENTS: Global Changes in Agriculture; Crop Evapotranspiration; Global Warming & Dual Crop Coefficient Production; Impact of Abnormal Environment Parameters; Potential Impacts of Climate Change; Agricultural Production; Global Potential to...
Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions
Katherine Richardson, Will Steffen, Diana Liverman