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Naturschutzgerechte Steuerung der Windenergienutzung durch die gesamträumliche Planung
Lexxion Verlagsgesellschaft mbH 2012; US$ 31.06Hauptbeschreibung Im Zusammenhang mit der Energiewende der Bundesregierung wurde aufgrund des Gesetzes zur Förderung des Klimaschutzes bei der Entwicklung in den Städten und Gemeinden vom 22.7.2011 auch das Baugesetzbuch geändert. Durch aktuelle landesrechtliche Akzentverschiebungen haben sich zudem insbesondere die Rahmenbedingungen für die Windkraftnutzung... more...
Global Warming
Cambridge University Press 1997; US$ 28.00Sir John Houghton's Global Warming: the Complete Briefing is the most comprehensive guide available to the science and politics of global warming. The first edition received excellent reviews, and this completely updated new edition will prove to be the best briefing the student or interested general reader could wish for. more...
Hell and High Water
HarperCollins 2007; US$ 10.99Global warming is the story of the twenty-first century. It is the most serious issue facing the future of humankind, and American energy and environmental policy is driving the whole world down the path of global catastrophe. Hell and High Water is nothing less than a wake-up call to the country. more...
Climate Change and Stratospheric Ozone Depletion
World Health Organization 2000; US$ 31.50A balanced assessment, based on currently available scientific knowledge, of the effects that climate change may have on the environment in Europe and the health of its populations. Written in non-technical language, the book responds to growing public and political concern about the consequences of such widely publicized phenomena as global warming... more...
Energy Security and Climate Policy - Assessing Interactions
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2007; US$ 97.00World energy demand is surging. Oil, coal and natural gas still meet most global energy needs, creating serious implications for the environment. One result is that CO 2 emissions, the principal cause of global warming, are rising. . This new study underlines the close link between efforts to ensure energy security and those to mitigate climate... more...
Beyond Kyoto - A New Global Climate Certificate System
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2005; US$ 129.99In line with the principles of the ecological-social market economy, nations using the most energy and causing the most emissions will be financially sanctioned, but not overburdened - climate friendly behaviour and growth will on the other hand be rewarded worldwide. more...
Increasing Climate Variability and Change
Springer 2005; US$ 129.99This book reviews the latest assessments of climate variability and climate change, and their impacts on agriculture and forestry, and recommends appropriate adaptation strategies for reducing the vulnerability of agriculture and forestry to climate variability and climate change. Among other solutions, the text offers management strategies to mitigate... more...
Global Warming - Myth or Reality?
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2006; US$ 229.99In the global-warming debate, definitive answers to questions about ultimate causes and effects remain elusive. In Global Warming: Myth or Reality? Marcel Leroux seeks to separate fact from fiction in this critical debate from a climatological perspective. Beginning with a review of the dire hypotheses for climate trends, the author describes the history... more...
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...









