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Cities and Climate Change
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 65.95Climate change is one of the most challenging issues of our time. As key sites in the production and management of emissions of greenhouse gases, cities will be crucial for the implementation of international agreements and national policies on climate change. This book provides a critical analysis of the role of cities in addressing climate change... more...
Climate, Change and Risk
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 264.00Climate, Change and Risk presents an overview of 'extreme' weather related events and our ability to cope with them. It focuses on society's responses, insurance matters and methodologies for the analysis of climatic hazards. Drawing on worldwide research from the leading names in the field this volume explores the changes in weather hazards that... more...
Global Change and Local Places
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 56.00How do our everyday lives affect climate change? This book compares four different sites in the United States, and looks at the human factors affecting climate change (such as greenhouse gas emissions), how these factors are changing, and what can be done to mitigate the effects at a local level. more...
China and the Global Energy Crisis
Edward Elgar Publishing 2007; US$ 40.00China?s rapid economic development is having profound implications for energy resources. China has always been exceptionally reliant on its abundant coal, but consumption of oil and gas have grown rapidly since reform began in the 1980s. In spite of vigorous domestic development ? most recently in the Tarim Basin ? China is now consuming approximately... more...
Europe and Global Climate Change
Edward Elgar Publishing 2007; US$ 40.00The core objective of this book it to better understand the role of foreign policy ? the crossovers and interactions between domestic and international politics and policies ? in efforts to preserve the environment and natural resources. Underlying this objective is the belief that it is not enough to analyze domestic or international political actors,... more...
Global Climate Change and Response of Carbon Cycle in the Equatorial Pacific and Indian Oceans and Adjacent Landmasses
Elsevier Science 2006; US$ 225.00To understand the global warming mechanism, global mapping of primary production was carried out under the GCMAPS program. The program was concerned with marine and terrestrial environmental changes, which affect carbon cycle on the regional and global scales. On the regional scale, warm phase of ENSO (El Niņo / Southern Oscillation) has been shown... more...
Greenhouse Gas Sinks
CABI 2007; US$ 160.00The many and varied sinks for greenhouse gases on Earth are nothing less than vital to life as we know it. For millennia they have maintained relatively balanced concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide in our atmosphere. Even when humankind drastically increased greenhouse emissions following the industrial revolution, many of the... more...
Creating a Climate for Change
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 65.00Comprehensive look communicating climate change for researchers and professionals in environmental policy and science communication. more...
Late Quaternary Climate Change and Human Adaptation in Arid China
Elsevier Science 2011; US$ 195.00Due to political pressures, prior to the 1990s little was known about the nature of human foraging adaptations in the deserts, grasslands, and mountains of north western China during the last glacial period. Even less was known about the transition to agriculture that followed. Now open to foreign visitation, there is now an increasing understanding... more...
Climate Change
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 56.00Review of future climate change for life sciences and environmental science students, and policy-makers. more...









