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  • The Challenge of Climate Changeby Daniel P. Perlmutter; Robert L. Rothstein

    Wiley 2010; US$ 84.95

    Global warming and climate change present complex interlocking issues of public policy, multilateral negotiation, and technological advancement.  This book explores both the problems and the opportunities presented by international agreements, and examines the technological developments and policy goals that can be pursued to effect the changes... more...

  • Climate Changeby Katherine Richardson; Will Steffen; Diana Liverman

    Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 84.00

    Provides an up-to-date synthesis of all knowledge relevant to the climate change issue, for researchers, professionals and advanced students. more...

  • No Rain in the Amazonby Nikolas Kozloff

    Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 26.99

    Acting as the planet?s air conditioner, the rainforest sucks up millions of tons of greenhouse gases and stores them safely out of the atmosphere. South America's deforestation threatens to unleash a kind of ?carbon bomb? that will add to our already deteriorating climate difficulties. As he travels across Peru and Brazil, recognized South America... more...

  • Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reductionby Rajib Shaw; Juan Pulhin; Joy Pereira

    Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010; US$ 164.95

    Following on from Volume 4 in this series, which looked at issues and challenges with regard to Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Volume 5 has a specific focus on Asia. Arguably among the regions of the world most vulnerable to climate change, Asia has different mechanisms for CCA and DRR activities. Synergies between... more...

  • Hard Choicesby Harold Coward; Andrew J. Weaver

    Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2006; US$ 85.00

    Drought, floods, hurricanes, forest fires, ice storms, blackouts, dwindling fish stocks...what Canadian has not experienced one of these or more, or heard about the “greenhouse” effect, and not wondered what is happening to our climate? Yet most of us have a poor understanding of this extremely important issue, and need better, reliable... more...

  • China's responsibility for climate changeby Paul G. Harris

    The Policy Press 2011; US$ 39.95

    This book describes China's contribution to global warming and analyzes its policy responses, examinining China's practical and ethical responsibility from a variety of perspectives. more...

  • Arctic Climate Changeby Peter Lemke; Hans-Werner Jacobi

    Springer 2011; US$ 139.99

    The Arctic is now experiencing some of the most rapid and severe climate change on earth. Over the next 100 years, climate change is expected to accelerate, contributing to major physical, ecological, social, and economic changes, many of which have already begun. Changes in arctic climate will also affect the rest of the world through increased global... more...

  • After Cancúnby Elmar Altvater; Achim Brunnengräber

    Springer 2011; US$ 31.99

    The world is facing several serious challenges at the close of the fossil and nuclear energy regime: the limited resources of cheap conventional oil can only be surmounted by tapping unconventional oil reserves, e.g. deep sea oil. The explosion of the oil platform Deepwater Horizon in 2010 and the subsequent oil spill caused enormous damage, which... more...

  • Accounting for Climate Changeby Daniel Lieberman; Matthias Jonas; Zbigniew Nahorski

    Springer 2010; US$ 109.99

    Uncertainty analysis is a key component of national greenhouse gases inventory analyses. The issues that are raised by the authors in this volume, and the role that uncertainty analysis plays in many of their arguments and/or proposals, highlight the importance of such efforts. Coverage includes: bottom-up versus top-down emission inventory approaches,... more...

  • Extremes in a Changing Climateby Amir AghaKouchak; David Easterling; Kuolin Hsu; Siegfried Schubert; Soroosh Sorooshian

    Springer 2012; US$ 99.99

    This book provides a collection of the state-of-the-art methodologies and approaches suggested for detecting extremes, trend analysis, accounting for nonstationarities, and uncertainties associated to extreme value analysis in a changing climate condition. Furthermore, the book addresses current hydrometeorologic global data sets and their applications... more...