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1. Losing Earth : a recent history [2019]
- Rich, Nathaniel, 1980- author.
- First edition. - New York : MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
- Description
- Book — x, 206 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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- Introduction: The reckoning
- Part I. Shouts in the street : 1979-1982. The whole banana : spring 1979
- Mirror worlds : spring 1979
- Between clambake and chaos : July 1979
- Enter Cassandra, raving : 1979-1980
- A very aggressive defensive program : 1979-1980
- Tiger on the road : October 1980
- A deluge most unnatural : November 1980-September 1981
- Heroes and villains : March 1982
- The direction of an impending catastrophe : 1982
- Part II. Bad science fiction : 1983-1988. Caution not panic : 1983-1984
- The world of action : 1985
- The ozone in October : fall 1985-summer 1986
- Atmospheric scientist, New York, N.Y. : fall 1987-spring 1988
- Part III. You will see things that you shall believe : 1988-1989. Nothing but bonfires : summer 1988
- Signal weather : June 1988
- Woodstock for climate change : June 1988-April 1989
- Fragmented world : fall 1988
- The great includer and the old engineer : spring 1989
- Natural processes : May 1989
- The White House effect : spring-fall 1989
- Skunks at the garden party : November 1989
- Afterword: Glass-bottomed boats.
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QC981.8 .G56 R53 2019 | Unknown |
2. Climate change impacts in the United States, highlights : U.S. national climate assessment [2014]
- U.S. Global Change Research Program issuing body.
- Washington, DC : U.S. Global Change Research Program, 2014. Washington, DC : U.S. Government Printing Office
- Description
- Book — iv, 137 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
- Summary
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- Overview
- Regions
- Report findings.
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QC903.2 .U6 U22 2014 | Unknown |
- U.S. Global Change Research Program issuing body.
- Washington, DC : U.S. Global Change Research Program, [2014]
- Description
- Book — 19 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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QC903.2 .U6 U22 2014B | Unknown |
- Friedrichs, Jörg.
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2013.
- Description
- Book — xi, 223 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
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- The transitory nature of industrial society
- Climate change and energy scarcity
- What the climate can change
- When energy runs short
- The struggle over knowledge
- The moral economy of inaction
- Where to go from here.
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QC903 .F74 2013 | Unknown |
- Harris, Paul G.
- Chichester : Polity Press, 2013.
- Description
- Book — x, 286 p. ; 21 cm.
- Summary
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- About the Author vi Preface vii
- 1 Introduction 1 Part I: Diagnoses
- 2 Cancer of Westphalia: Climate Diplomacy and the International System 33
- 3 Malignancy of the Great Polluters: The United States and China 64
- 4 Addictions of Modernity: Affl uence and Consumption 93 Part II: Treatments
- 5 People-Centered Diplomacy: Human Rights and Globalized Justice 119
- 6 Differentiated Responsibility: National and Individual 144
- 7 Consumption of Happiness: Sustainability and Wellbeing 171
- 8 Conclusion 197 Notes 224 References 245 Index 277.
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QC903 .H37 2013 | Unknown |
- 1st ed. - New York : Pantheon Books, c2012.
- Description
- Book — 214 p. : ill ; 21 cm.
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- Introduction
- What the science says
- What's actually happening
- What's likely to happen in the future
- Can we avoid the risks of climate change?
- Epilogue: The IPCC [i.e., Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] is what, exactly?
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QC903 .G58 2012 | Unknown |
- Hertsgaard, Mark, 1956-
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.
- Description
- Book — 339 p. ; 24 cm.
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- Prologue: Growing up under global warming
- Living through the storm
- Three feet of water
- My daughter's earth
- Ask the climate question
- The two-hundred-year plan
- Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?
- In vino veritas : the business of climate adaptation
- How will we feed ourselves?
- While the rich avert their eyes
- "This was a crime"
- Epilogue: Chiara in the year 2020.
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QC981.8 .G56 H47 2011 | Unknown |
- 4th ed. - Washington, DC : Environmental Law Institute, c2011.
- Description
- Book — xii, 96 p. : col. ill., col maps ; 28 cm.
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- The climate system and the forces that drive it
- Climate change and natural variability
- The basics of greenhouse gases
- Climate change is happening now
- The human effect on climate
- Complexity of the climate system
- Models as working representations of reality
- Projections of future climate
- Sea-level rise
- Stratospheric ozone depletion
- Working with scientists and scientific news sources
- Questions needing better answers
- Brief guide to false and misleading contrarian arguments.
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QC903 .R455 2011 | Unknown |
- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2009.
- Description
- Book — viii, 299 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
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- Double jeopardy : what the climate crisis means for the poor / Abigail Jones, Vinca LaFleur, and Nigel Purvis
- Climate change impacts in the developing world : implications for sustainable development / Anthony Nyong
- Toward a new international climate change agreement / Elliot Diringer
- Greenhouse gas mitigation efforts in China : progress and opportunities / Ned Helme
- Linking communities, forests, and carbon / Michael Jenkins
- Integrating climate change into development : multiple benefits of mitigation and adaptation / Atiq Rahman
- Development in the balance : agriculture and water / Robert Mendelsohn
- Public health adaptation to climate change in low-income countries / Kristie L. Ebi
- Linking adaptation and disaster risk reduction / Saleemul Huq and Jessica Ayers
- The climate-security connection : what it means for the poor / Joshua W. Busby
- Financing adaptation to a warmer world : opportunities for innovation and experimentation / Manish Bapna and Heather McGray
- Exploring the potential for public-private insurance to help the world's poor to adapt and thrive as the climate changes / Ian Burton and Thea Dickinson
- Corporate action on climate adaptation and development : mobilizing new partnerships to build climate change resilience in developing countries and communities / Jane Nelson
- Mobilizing action for climate change adaptation in the North and South / Heather K. Coleman, Raymond C. Offenheiser, and David Waskow
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QC903 .C545 2009 | Unknown |
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- Description
- Book — xiv, 412 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
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- Foreword--
- 1. Integrated regional assessment C. Gregory Knight and Jill Jager--
- 2. Integrated regional assessment: overview and framework Brent Yarnal--
- 3. Integrated regional assessment: qualitative and quantitative issues Elizabeth L. Malone--
- 4. Scale and scalar dynamics in integrated regional assessments Colin Polsky and Darla K. Munroe--
- 5. Uncertainty management in integrated regional assessment Marjolein B. A. van Asselt--
- 6. Vulnerability of people, places and systems to environmental change Neil Leary and Sara Beresford--
- 7. Integrating climate change adaptation into sustainable development Thea Dickinson, Livia Bizikova and Ian Burton--
- 8. Stakeholders in integrated regional assessment Ann Fisher and Bernd Kasemir--
- 9. A framework for integrated regional assessment C. Gregory Knight, Ann Fisher and the CIRA team--
- 10. The global context of integrated regional assessment Jill Jager--
- 11. The Asia-Pacific integrated model Mikiko Kainuma, Yuzuru Matsuoka, Tsuneyuki Morita and Kiyoshi Takahashi--
- 12. Integrated regional assessment for South Asia: a case study P. R. Shukla, Amit Garg and Subash Dhar--
- 13. Climate change and regional sustainability in the Yangtze Delta, China Yongyuan Yin--
- 14. From CLIMPACTS to SimCLIM: development of an integrated assessment model system Richard Warrick--
- 15. Why regional and spatial specificity is needed in environmental assessments Rik Leemans--
- 16. The SARCS integrated study of Southeast Asia: assessments with networks Louis Lebel--
- 17. Institutions for collaborative environmental research in the Americas: a case study of the Inter American Institute for Global Change (IAI) Diana Liverman--
- 18. The Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessment (RISA) program: crafting effective assessments for the long haul Roger S. Pulwarty, Claudia Nierenberg and Caitlin Simpson--
- 19. Integrated regional assessment: reflections on the state of the art Jill Jager and C. Gregory Knight-- Index.
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QC903 .I57 2009 | Unknown |
- Page, Edward, 1968-
- Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, c2006.
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- Book — vi, 209 p. ; 24 cm.
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QC981.8 .C5 P34 2006 | Unknown |
- Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, c2003.
- Description
- Book — xi, 361 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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- Instruments and institutions - key design issues in climate change policy, Michael Faure, Joveeta Gupta, Andries Nentjes-- the Kyoto mechanisms and the economics of their design, Luke Brander-- alternative design options for emissions trading - a survey and assessment of the literature, Jan-Tjeerd Boom, Andries Nentjes-- limits on the design and enacting of climate change policies? the need to strike a balance between international trade law and environmental protection-- developing carbon trading in Europe - does grandfathering distort competition and lead to state aid?, Edwin Woerdman-- legal aspects of the Dutch approach on CO2 reduction, Chris Backes, Reinske Teuben-- legal feasibility of emissions tradings, Majan Peeters-- CDM in climate policies in the Netherlands - a promising tool?, Rianne de Leeuw, Ekko C. van Ierland-- optimal institutional arrangements and instruments for the promotion of energy from renewable sources, Jan Bongaerts, George Dogbe-- domestic capacity, regional organization, global climate change regime building process, lessons from the Netherlands-EU Kyoto protocol negotiation, Norichika Kanie-- global environmental change regimes - impact assessment on the basis of an extended GTAP-model, Shunli Wang, Peter Nijkamp, Onno Kuik.
- Part 2 after Kyoto: the multi-sector convergence approach to global burden sharing of greenhouse gas reductions, Jos Bruggink-- the Dutch energy transition and its institutional problems - report from a stakeholder assessment, Matthijs Hisschemoller-- modulating dynamics in transport for climate protection, Rene Kemp, Ellen Moors-- institutional change in Europe and the implications for climate control measures, Graham Bennett.
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QC981.8 .C5 C5134 2003 | Unknown |
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
- Description
- Book — x, 1032 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 29 cm
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- Overview of impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability to climate change
- Methods and tools
- Developing and applying scenarios
- Hydrology and water resources
- Ecosystems and their goods and services
- Coastal zones and marine ecosystems
- Human settlements, energy, and industry
- Insurance and other financial services
- Human health
- Africa
- Asia
- Australia and New Zealand
- Europe
- Latin America
- North America
- Polar regions (Arctic and Antarctic)
- Small island states
- Adaptation to climate change in the context on sustainable development and equity
- Vulnerability to climate change and reasons for concern : a synthesis.
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- Wien : Service Fachverlag, 2001.
- Description
- Book — 277 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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QC981.8 .C5 D47 2001 | Unknown |
- Parker, Larry.
- [Washington, D.C.] : Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, [1998]
- Description
- Book — 35 p.
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QC981.8 .G56 P37 1998 | Unknown |