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The OECDby Peter Carroll; Aynsley Kellow
Edward Elgar Publishing 2011; US$ 40.00The book reveals, for the first time, the origins, growth and complex role of the OECD as it celebrates its fiftieth anniversary, showing how it has adapted - for the most part successfully - to the changing needs of its members, both large and small. Peter Carroll and Aynsley Kellow provide a comprehensive account and analysis of the origins, development and, most intriguingly, the recent reforms that characterise the OECD. They argue that this increasingly complex organisation has fulfilled its design to be an adaptive, learning organisation and explore how the OECD has spread its wings beyond its European and North American roots to become an increasingly influential body in global governance. Topical chapters include the OECD's work on... more...
Climate, Change and Riskby Thomas Downing; A. Olsthoorn; R.S.J. Tol
Routledge 1998; US$ 248.00Climate, Change and Risk presents an overview of climatic hazards and climate change, focusing on societal responses, insurance and methodologies for analysis. more...
Cities and Climate Changeby Harriet Bulkeley; Michele Betsill
Routledge 2002; US$ 57.95Cities and Climate Change is the first in-depth and interdisciplinary analysis of the role of cities in addressing climate change and illustrates the multilevel nature of climate change governance. more...
Timescales and Environmental Changeby Graham Chapman; Thackwray Driver
Routledge 1996; US$ 67.95Leading experts from a diverse range of disciplines encourage the reader, from whatever perspective to think about change and environmental issues in a new light through different time-scales. more...
Little Ice Ageby Jean M. Grove
Routledge 1988; US$ 328.00This definitive work provides an excellent focus for the work of economic and social historians as well as glaciologists, climatologists, geographers and geologists. more...
Environmental Changeby Richard Huggett
Routledge 1997; US$ 67.95Huggett presents an introductory exploration of past, present and future change in the environment . Exploring rates and directions of change, introduces the interdependent parts of the natural environment. more...
Security and Climate Changeby Mark Lacy
Routledge 2005; US$ 41.95This book seeks to explain why the international community has responded with a sense of fatalistic passivity to climate change. It aims to provide a distinct critique of realism through the study of this topic commonly overlooked in IR. more...
The Oceans and Climateby Grant R. Bigg
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 45.00The Oceans and Climate introduces the multi-disciplinary controls on air-sea interaction. The new edition of this successful textbook has been completely updated throughout, and extensive new material has been added. It will prove an ideal course and reference book for students studying earth and environmental sciences, oceanography, meteorology and climatology. more...
Climatic Change and Its Impactsby Martin Beniston
Springer 2005; US$ 139.00Climatic Change is a rapidly evolving domain that has prompted the publication of numerous scientific works in recent years, reflecting both the public and scientific interest in the topic. This book focuses upon climate processes, variability and change and applies the general principles related to these issues, particularly in Switzerland. more...
Climate Change, Adaptive Capacity And Developmentby Joel B Smith; Richard J T Klein; Saleemul Huq
World Scientific 2003; US$ 100.10The Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has presented strong evidence that human-induced climate change is occurring and that all countries of the world will be affected and need to adapt to impacts. The IPCC points out that many developing countries are particularly vulnerable because of their relatively low adaptive capacity. more...