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Towards a Sustainable Asia
Springer 2012; US$ 109.99This series of books are the output of the research project called "Sustainable Development in Asia (SDA)", which was initiated by the Association of Academies of Sciences in Asia (AASA). They are comprised of one synthesis report, which entitled "Towards a Sustainable Asia: Green Transition and Innovation", and four thematic reports... more...
Climate Economics
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 140.00Climate science paints a bleak picture: The continued growth of greenhouse gas emissions is increasingly likely to cause irreversible and catastrophic effects. Urgent action is needed to prepare for the initial rounds of climatic change, which are already unstoppable. While the opportunity to avert all climate damage has now passed, well-designed... 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...
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...
Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 47.95Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change is a major new book addressing one of the most challenging questions of our time. Its unique standpoint is based on the recognition that effective and coherent interdisciplinarity is necessary to deal with the issue of climate change, and the multitude of linked phenomena which both constitute and connect to... 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...
Local Climate Action Planning
Springer 2012; US$ 37.50This is the first book designed to help planners, municipal staff and officials, citizens and others working at local levels to develop Climate Action Plans. CAPs are strategic plans that establish policies and programs for mitigating a community's greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions. They typically focus on transportation, energy use, and solid waste.... more...
Climate Change and Global Poverty
Brookings Institution Press 2009; US$ 24.95Climate change threatens all people, but its adverse effects will be felt mostacutely by the worlds poor. Absent urgent action, new threats to food security,public health, and other societal needs may reverse hard-fought human developmentgains. Climate Change and Global Poverty makes concrete recommendationsto integrate international development... more...
Adaptive Governance and Climate Change
Springer 2010; US$ 29.95As greenhouse gas emissions and temperatures at the poles continue to rise, so do damages from extreme weather events affecting countless lives. Meanwhile, ambitious international efforts to cut emissions (Kyoto, Copenhagen) have proved to be politically ineffective or infeasible. There is hope, however, in adaptive governance?an approach that has... more...









