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The Oceans and Climate
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 47.00The 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... more...
Climatic Change and Its Impacts
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 Development
World Scientific Publishing Company 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... more...
The Benefits of Climate Change Policies
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2004; US$ 126.00Humans? effect on the earth's climate will have potentially far-reaching impacts on society and nature. We know that there are trade-offs among policies that limit global warming, but the benefits have so far received far less attention from policy makers than have the costs. more...
Climate Change and Africa
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 98.00A comprehensive and up-to-date review by the leading experts from a range of disciplines, this book presents issues of most relevance to Africa: disease, energy generation, desertification, drought, sea-level rise, and sustainable development. An invaluable reference for all researchers and policy makers with an interest in climate change and Africa. more...
Climate Change Impacts for the Conterminous USA
Springer 2005; US$ 64.99In this volume, an improved Integrated Assessment methodology is used to analyze climate change impacts on agriculture, water resources, unmanaged ecosystems, irrigation, and land use in the United States and the economic implications of these impacts. This book contains a series of papers documenting the methods, models, analysis, and results of this... more...
Environmental Change
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 79.00This book explains the significance of past and contemporary environmental and climatic change. It poses key questions and presents the results of recent research. Extensively referenced and illustrated, it is a balanced, non-specialist exploration of global change for advanced undergraduates in Geography, Environmental, Earth, Biological and Ecological... more...
The International Climate Change Regime
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 86.00This book presents a detailed description and analysis of the international regime that was established in 1992 to combat the threat of global climate change. It covers not only the obligations and rights of countries under the regime, but also explains how the ongoing climate negotiations work. more...
Mass Balance of the Cryosphere
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 178.00Land and sea ice combined form the largest part of the Earth's cryosphere, responding to climate change over timescales ranging from seasons to millennia. This is a detailed and comprehensive overview of the observation and modelling of present and predicted future trends in the mass balance of ice on Earth. more...
Climate Change, Justice and Future Generations
Edward Elgar Publishing 2006; US$ 40.00Global climate change raises important questions of international and intergenerational justice. In this important new book, the author places research on the origins and spatio-temporal impacts of climate change within the broader context of distributive justice and sustainable development. He argues that a range of theories of distribution ? notably... more...









