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After Cancún
Springer 2011; US$ 31.99The 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 Change
Springer 2010; US$ 109.99Uncertainty 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 Climate
Springer 2012; US$ 99.99This 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...
Adaptation to a Changing Climate in the Arab Countries
World Bank Publications 2012; US$ 24.99In the Arab countries, climate change is a risk to poverty reduction and economic growth, threatening to unravel many of the development gains that have been achieved. The Arab Region is already suffering adverse consequences from climate variability and change. This book provides information on climate change and its impact in the Arab Region, as... more...
Climatic Change and Global Warming of Inland Waters
Wiley 2012; US$ 123.95Effects of global warming on the physical, chemical, ecological structure and function and biodiversity of freshwater ecosystems are not well understood and there are many opinions on how to adapt aquatic environments to global warming in order to minimize the negative effects of climate change. Climatic Change and Global Warming of Inland Waters... more...
Climate Adaptation Futures
Wiley 2013; US$ 123.95Adaptation is the poor cousin of the climate change challenge - the glamour of international debate is around global mitigation agreements, while the bottom-up activities of adaptation, carried out in community halls and local government offices, are often overlooked. Yet, as international forums fail to deliver reductions in greenhouse gas emissions,... more...
Climate Change Adaptation in Practice
Wiley 2013; US$ 132.50Climate change adaptation is increasingly recognized as complementary part to climate change mitigation. Climate change affects sea level, the extent of flood prone areas and precipitation patterns among many others. To adapt to these changes, the tasks of municipalities and cities are to implement policies and strategies for changes in land... more...
Integrating Climate Change Actions into Local Development
Earthscan 2008; US$ 127.00To date, climate change adaptation and mitigation have been treated separately both in research and in the climate negotiations. However, a growing body of literature is now being developed that points to actual and potential synergies and trade-offs between responses to climate change and sustainability. This literature has evolved in a spontaneous... more...
Climate Change and Technological Options
Springer 2009; US$ 109.99Covers the scientific basis of climate change and the instruments to prevent or reduce negative climate effects. This work discusses evaluation methods for climate impacts from industrial processes. It defines climate relevant processes and measures to reduce their impact such as sequestration. more...
Climate Change and Sustainable Development
Edward Elgar Publishing 2009; US$ 60.00Offers an analysis of the complex relations that influence sustainable development within the context of global economic restructuring and the heritage of democracy. This book examines climate change implications for two major global agendas: sustainable development and poverty reduction. more...









