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Human-Induced Climate Change
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 110.00Survey of climate change science for graduate students, researchers and policymakers interested in climate change. more...
Climate Variability and Extremes During the Past 100 Years
Springer 2007; US$ 219.99The past 100 years are a key period for understanding climate variability and climate change as it marks the changeover from a climate system dominated by natural influences to a climate system dominated by anthropogenic influences. This volume compiles a number of contributions to a workshop held in Gwatt, Switzerland, in July 2006 dealing with different... more...
Climate Policy Uncertainty and Investment Risk
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2007; US$ 97.00Our climate is changing. Less certain, however, is the timing and magnitude of climate change, and the cost of transition to a low-carbon world. This book identifies how climate change policy uncertainty may affect investment behaviour in the power sector. For power companies, where capital stock is intensive and long-lived, those risks rank among... more...
Climate Wars
Scribe Publications 2010; US$ 21.99Waves of climate refugees. Dozens of failed states. All-out war. From one of the world's great geopolitical analysts comes a terrifying glimpse of the near future, when climate change drives the world's powers towards the cutthroat politics of survival. An increase of as little as two degrees Celsius in average global temperature - which is almost... more...
Global Climate Change
Edward Elgar Publishing 2003; US$ 40.00Global climate change cannot be understood without knowing the fundamental principles of science, economics and politics that condition our policy choices. To that end, the contributors to this volume, experts in their respective fields, take a comprehensive look at the major issues involved. This volume is written for policymakers and informed citizenry... more...
The Rough Guide to Climate Change
Rough Guides 2011; US$ 19.99The Rough Guide to Climate Change gives the complete picture of the single biggest issue facing the planet. Cutting a swathe through scientific research and political debate, this completely updated 3rd edition lays out the facts and assesses the options?global and personal?for dealing with the threat of a warming world. The guide looks at the evolution... more...
The Ecology of Snow and Ice Environments
OUP Oxford 2012; US$ 59.99Snow and ice environments support significant biological activity, yet the biological importance of some of these habitats, such as glaciers, has only recently gained appreciation. Collectively, these ecosystems form a significant part of the cryosphere, most of which is situated at high latitudes. These ice environments are important sentinels of... more...
The Way the Wind Blows
Columbia University Press 2012; US$ 43.99Scientists and policymakers are beginning to understand in ever-increasing detail that environmental problems cannot be understood solely through the biophysical sciences. Environmental issues are fundamentally human issues and must be set in the context of social, political, cultural, and economic knowledge. The need both to understand how human... more...
Climate Change Modelling for Local Adaptation in the Hindu Kush - Himalayan Region
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012; US$ 124.95This publication presents a portrait of the social advantages and limitations of climate change related modeling in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region. It addresses the implied but largely uncritiqued relationships between scientific modeling knowledge and local adaptation responses, as well as theoretical perspectives on modeling and adaptation. more...
CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY FAILURES
World Scientific Publishing Company 2012; US$ 39.00At the recent UN Climate Change Conferences in Copenhagen, Cancun and Durban, the developed nations promised hundreds of billions of dollars in financial aid to help developing countries overcome global climate change dangers. The developed nations will need to spend many more billions to limit their own greenhouse gas pollution, the main cause of... more...









