• Introduction: The old man and the sea
• Troubled waters
• The deal of the century
• Blue-collar houses
• Manufacturing dirt
• Five-high : the Ash Wednesday storm of 1962
• The Bantam mayor
• A brief shining moment
• The revolt at St. Francis
• Tipping point
• Acts of God and man
• Federalizing disasters
• A flood of trouble
• The secret history of sand
• The unluckiest island in America
• Building a better hurricane
• A finger in the dike
• Drowning fast and slow
• The problem with the bays
• Epilogue: The future is now.

"The costliest hurricanes in U.S. history have all occurred in the past two decades--but who bears the financial brunt of these monster storms? It is no accident that five of the most destructive hurricanes in the last hundred years have made landfall since 2005: Katrina ($161 billion), Ike ($40 billion), Sandy ($71 billion), Harvey ($125 billion), and Maria ($90 billion). And with more property than ever in harm's way, the seas rising, and the planet and its oceans warming dangerously, it won't be long before we see a $250 billion storm. Why? Because Americans have built $3 trillion worth of property in some of the riskiest places on earth: barrier islands and coastal floodplains prone to hurricanes and epic floods. And they have been encouraged to do so by what Gilbert M. Gaul reveals in The Geography of Risk to be a confounding array of federal subsidies, tax breaks, low-interest loans, disaster recovery grants, and government flood insurance programs that shift risk at the beach from private investors to public taxpayers, radically distorting common notions of risk and responsibility. Consider: In 1955, taxpayers covered just 5 percent of the cost of rebuilding after hurricanes. They now pay for 70 percent--sometimes more. These federal incentives, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gaul argues, have resulted in one of the worst planning failures in American history, with the cost to taxpayers now reaching unsustainable levels. In prose that is at once deeply informed, clear, and entertaining, Gaul explores the history of the modern coast and how, over time, federal taxpayers far from the shoreline have become responsible for a shocking collection of coastal amenities and infrastructure: new roads, bridges, utilities, and streetlights; tennis courts, marinas, and gazebos; food, cars--even paying billions to widen the beaches of hedge fund owners. The Geography of Risk will forever change the way you think about the coasts, from the clash between economic interests and nature to the heated politics of regulators and developers"-- Dust jacket flap.

• Introduction
• The invisible friend
• Orlando's ring
• Across the natural world
• Invisiphilia
• Invisible ink
• At the identity spa
• The anonymity proposal
• Rereading Mrs. Dalloway
• The vanishing self
• The geography of invisibility
• With wonder.

"It is time to reevaluate the merits of the inconspicuous life, to search out some antidote to continuous exposure, and to reconsider the value of going unseen, undetected, or overlooked in this new world. Might invisibility be regarded not simply as refuge, but as a condition with its own meaning and power? The impulse to escape notice is not about complacent isolation or senseless conformity, but about maintaining identity, autonomy, and voice. In our networked and image-saturated lives, the notion of disappearing has never been more alluring. Today, we are relentlessly encouraged, even conditioned, to reveal, share, and promote ourselves. The pressure to be public comes not just from our peers, but from vast and pervasive technology companies that want to profit from patterns in our behavior. A lifelong student and observer of the natural world, [the author] sets out to explore her own uneasiness with this arrangement, and what she senses is a widespread desire for a less scrutinized way of life--for invisibility. Writing in rich painterly detail about her own life, her family, and some of the world's most exotic and remote places, she savors the pleasures of being unseen. Discovering and dramatizing a wonderful range of ways of disappearing, from virtual reality goggles that trick the wearer into believing her body has disappeared to the way Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway finds a sense of affiliation with the world around her as she ages, Busch deliberates on subjects new and old with equal sensitivity and incisiveness. [This book] is a unique and exhilarating accomplishment, overturning the dangerous modern assumption that somehow fame and visibility equate to success and happiness. Busch presents a field guide to invisibility, reacquainting us with the merits of remaining inconspicuous, and finding genuine alternatives to a life of perpetual exposure. Accessing timeless truths in order to speak to our most urgent contemporary problems, she inspires us to develop a deeper appreciation for personal privacy in a vast and intrusive world."-- Dust jacket.

• 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.

"By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change--including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. [This] is their story"-- Publisher marketing.

• Hobbes in our time
• Climate leviathan
• The politics of adaptation
• The adaptation of the political
• A green capitalism?
• Planetary sovereignty
• After Paris
• Climate X.

How climate change will affect our political theory--for better and worse Despite all the science and summits, leading capitalist states have not managed to mitigate anything close to an adequate level of carbon emissions. There is no way the world will warm less than the critical 2C threshold. What are the likely political-economic outcomes? Where is our warming world headed? Possibilities in the struggle for climate justice depend on our capacity to anticipate where the existing global order is likely to go. Climate Leviathan provides a radical way of thinking about how environmental change will intensify existing challenges to global order, unearthing the forces for a planetary variation on existing forms of sovereignty. Drawing on a wide range of political thought, Wainwright and Mann argue that rapid climate change will transform global political economy and our world's basic political arrangements, leading toward a capitalist planetary sovereignty. Alternative futures must be constructed in the face of these transformations.
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• Introduction
• Putting us on track to a low-carbon future
• Energy policy design
• How to prioritize policies for emission reduction
• Renewable portfolio standards and feed-in tariffs -- Complementary power sector policies
• Vehicle performance standards
• Vehicle and fuel fees and feebates
• Electric vehicle policies
• Urban mobility policies
• Building codes and appliance standards
• Industrial energy efficiency
• Industrial process emission policies
• Carbon pricing
• Research and development policies
• Policies for a post-2050 world
• Appendix I. The energy policy simulator
• Appendix II. Methodology for quantitative policy assessment.

With the effects of climate change already upon us, the need to cut global greenhouse gas emissions is nothing less than urgent. It's a daunting challenge, but the technologies and strategies to meet it exist today. A small set of energy policies, designed and implemented well, can put us on the path to a low carbon future. Energy systems are large and complex, so energy policy must be focused and cost-effective. One-size-fits-all approaches simply won't get the job done. Policymakers need a clear, comprehensive resource that outlines the energy policies that will have the biggest impact on our climate future, and describes how to design these policies well. Designing Climate Solutions: A Policy Guide for Low-Carbon Energy is the first such guide, bringing together the latest research and analysis around low carbon energy solutions. Written by Hal Harvey, CEO of the policy firm Energy Innovation, with Robbie Orvis and Jeffrey Rissman of Energy Innovation, Designing Climate Solutions is an accessible resource on lowering carbon emissions for policymakers, activists, philanthropists, and others in the climate and energy community. In Part I, the authors deliver a roadmap for understanding which countries, sectors, and sources produce the greatest amount of greenhouse gas emissions, and give readers the tools to select and design efficient policies for each of these sectors. In Part II, they break down each type of policy, from renewable portfolio standards to carbon pricing, offering key design principles and case studies where each policy has been implemented successfully. We don't need to wait for new technologies or strategies to create a low carbon future-and we can't afford to. Designing Climate Solutions gives professionals the tools they need to select, design, and implement the policies that can put us on the path to a livable climate future.
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• Part one: Becoming Fermi. Prodigy ; Pisa ; Germany and Holland ; Quantum breakthroughs ; Of geckos and men
• Part two: The Rome years. Family life ; The Rome School ; Beta rays ; Goldfish ; Physics as soma ; The Nobel Prize
• Part three: The Manhattan Project. The New World ; Splitting the atom ; Fermi meets the Navy ; Piles of graphite ; The move to Chicago ; "We're cookin'!" ; Xenon-135 ; On a mesa ; An unholy Trinity
• Part four: The Chicago years. Return to Chicago ; In the public eye ; A patent fight ; Brilliant teacher, beloved mentor ; Travels abroad ; Home to die ; Fermi's legacy.

In 1942, a team at the University of Chicago achieved what no one had before: a nuclear chain reaction. At the forefront of this breakthrough stood Enrico Fermi. Straddling the ages of classical physics and quantum mechanics, equally at ease with theory and experiment, Fermi truly was the last man who knew everything-at least about physics. But he was also a complex figure who was a part of both the Italian Fascist Party and the Manhattan Project, and a less-than-ideal father and husband who nevertheless remained one of history's greatest mentors. Based on new archival material and exclusive interviews, The Last Man Who Knew Everything lays bare the enigmatic life of a colossus of twentieth century physics.
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• Preface
• Introduction: Walking along the shore
• Grains
• The classics
• Albert
• Quanta
• Spacetime is quantum
• Quanta of space
• Time does not exist
• Beyond the big bang
• Empirical confirmations?
• Quantum black holes
• The end of infinity
• Information
• Mystery.

"What are the elementary ingredients of the world? Do time and space exist? And what exactly is reality? [The author] has spent his life exploring these questions. He tells us how our understanding of reality has changed over the centuries and how physicists think about the structure of the universe today. In elegant and accessible prose, [the author] takes us on a wondrous journey from Democritus to Albert Einstein, from Michael Faraday to gravitational waves, and from classical physics to his own work in quantum gravity. As he shows us how the idea of reality has evolved over time, Rovelli offers deeper explanations of the theories he introduced so concisely in Seven Brief Lessons on Physics. This book culminates in a lucid overview of quantum gravity, the field of research that explores the quantum nature of space and time, seeking to unify quantum mechanics and general relativity. [The author] invites us to imagine a marvelous world where space breaks up into tiny grains, time disappears at the smallest scales, and black holes are waiting to explode--a vast universe still largely undiscovered."-- Dust jacket.

• Introduction: Improving the climate
• The golden mean
• Transatlantic networks and the geography of climate knowledge --
• An American Siberia -- Jamaicans in and out of Nova Scotia
• Works in progress.

Most people assume that climate change is recent news. A Temperate Empire shows that we have been debating the science and politics of climate change for a long time, since before the age of industrialization. Focusing on attempts to transform New England and Nova Scotia's environment in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this book explores the ways that early Americans studied and tried to remake local climates according to their plans for colonial settlement and economic development. For colonial officials, landowners, naturalists and other local elites, New England and Nova Scotia's frigid, long winters and short, muggy summers were persistent sources of anxiety. They became intensely interested in understanding the natural history of the climate and, ultimately, in reducing their vulnerability to it. In the short term, European migrants from other northern countries would welcome the cold or, as one Loyalist from New Hampshire argued, the cold would moderate the supposedly fiery temperaments of Jamaicans deported to colonial Nova Scotia. Over the long term, however, the expansion of colonial farms was increasingly tempering the climate itself. A naturalist in Vermont agreed with Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson when he insisted that every cultivated part of America was already "more temperate, uniform, and equal" than before colonization-a forecast of permanent, global warming they all wholeheartedly welcomed. By pointing to such ironies, A Temperate Empire emphasizes the necessarily historical nature of the climate and of our knowledge about it.
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• Reducing the federal government's carbon footprint
• Implementing state-wide greenhouse gas reductions
• Coordinating the siting of major renewable energy projects on public lands
• Federal interagency efforts to address climate impacts to critical infrastructure
• Responding to climate impacts on natural resources managed by the federal government
• Using geographic mapping tools to make climate change impact data available across agencies and with stakeholders.

• The science of climate change
• The science and politics of climate change / Ian Plimer
• Why climate models are failing / Patrick J. Michaels
• Global warming, models and language / Richard S. Lindzen
• Sun shunned / Willie Soon
• The scientific context / Robert M. Carter
• Forecasting rain / John Abbot & Jennifer Marohasy
• The economics and politics of climate change
• Cool it : an essay on climate change / Nigel Lawson
• Costing climate change / Alan Moran
• Experts as ideologues / James Delingpole
• Uncertainty, scepticism and the climate issue / Garth W. Paltridge
• The trillion dollar guess and the zombie theory / Jo Nova
• Forecasting global climate change / Kesten C. Green & J. Scott Armstrong
• The climate change movement
• The search for a global climate treaty / Rupert Darwall
• The hockey stick : a retrospective / Ross McKitrick
• The IPCC and the peace prize / Donna Laframboise
• Global warming's glorious ship of fools / Mark Steyn
• Cavemen, climate, and computers / Christopher Essex
• The scientists and the apocalypse / Bernie Lewin
• The scientfic method (and other heresies) / Stewart W. Franks
• Extreme weather and global warming / Anthony Watts
• False prophets unveiled / Andrew Bolt.

• 911
• 411
• Fat tails
• Willful blindness
• Bailing out the planet
• 007
• What you can do
• A different kind of optimism.

If you had a 10 percent chance of having a fatal car accident, you'd take necessary precautions. If your finances had a 10 percent chance of suffering a severe loss, you'd reevaluate your assets. So if we know the world is warming and there's a 10 percent chance this might eventually lead to a catastrophe beyond anything we could imagine, why aren't we doing more about climate change right now? We insure our lives against an uncertain future--why not our planet? In Climate Shock, Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman explore in lively, clear terms the likely repercussions of a hotter planet, drawing on and expanding from work previously unavailable to general audiences. They show that the longer we wait to act, the more likely an extreme event will happen. A city might go underwater. A rogue nation might shoot particles into the Earth's atmosphere, geoengineering cooler temperatures. Zeroing in on the unknown extreme risks that may yet dwarf all else, the authors look at how economic forces that make sensible climate policies difficult to enact, make radical would-be fixes like geoengineering all the more probable. What we know about climate change is alarming enough. What we don't know about the extreme risks could be far more dangerous. Wagner and Weitzman help readers understand that we need to think about climate change in the same way that we think about insurance--as a risk management problem, only here on a global scale. Demonstrating that climate change can and should be dealt with--and what could happen if we don't do so--Climate Shock tackles the defining environmental and public policy issue of our time.
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• Preamble
• Definitions
• Specific obligations.

• Contents: Introduction-- The problem, policies, and politics-- Small steps to Rio-- Staggering towards Kyoto-- Scepticism, neglect, and obstruction-- Action and reaction-- Conclusions-- Bibliography-- Index.
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The United States has widely been perceived as sceptical, if not hostile, to the need to address man-made climate change. US government policy has undoubtedly disappointed environmentalists and scientists who believe more concerted action is needed, but a careful examination of the evidence reveals a number of policy actions designed to investigate, mitigate, and adapt to climate change have been implemented. Laws, regulatory action, and court rulings have led to advances in climate science, action to reduce levels of greenhouse gas emissions and efforts to prepare for the potential consequences of climate change. In this important book Chris Bailey explains and details the challenges and achievements of US climate change policy from its origins to the present day.
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• The science : how it shapes the economics, ethics, politics, and the possible prognoses
• Building a new energy-industrial revolution
• Policies for dynamic change and transition : lessons from economic history and economic theory
• How some economic analyses have distorted the issues
• The ethics of intertemporal values and valuations
• Broad approaches to moral and political philosophy : converging perspectives
• Developments in climate action around the world
• Building national and international action
• Equity across peoples and nations
• Conclusion: How ideas change over time.

An urgent case for climate change action that forcefully sets out, in economic, ethical, and political terms, the dangers of delay and the benefits of action. The risks of climate change are potentially immense. The benefits of taking action are also clear: we can see that economic development, reduced emissions, and creative adaptation go hand in hand. A committed and strong low-carbon transition could trigger a new wave of economic and technological transformation and investment, a new era of global and sustainable prosperity. Why, then, are we waiting? In this book, Nicholas Stern explains why, notwithstanding the great attractions of a new path, it has been so difficult to tackle climate change effectively. He makes a compelling case for climate action now and sets out the forms that action should take. Stern argues that the risks and costs of climate change are worse than estimated in the landmark Stern Review in 2006-and far worse than implied by standard economic models. He reminds us that we have a choice. We can rely on past technologies, methods, and institutions-or we can embrace change, innovation, and international collaboration. The first might bring us some short-term growth but would lead eventually to chaos, conflict, and destruction. The second could bring about better lives for all and growth that is sustainable over the long term, and help win the battle against worldwide poverty. The science warns of the dangers of neglect; the economics and technology show what we can do and the great benefits that will follow; an examination of the ethics points strongly to a moral imperative for action. Why are we waiting?
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• Choosing a future : the social and legal aspects of climate change / Anna Grear and Conor Gearty
• An interview with Connie Hedegaard, European Union Commissioner for Climate Action / Conor Gearty
• Social and legal aspects of climate change / Mary Robinson
• An interview with Mary Robinson, President of the Mary Robinson Foundation : climate justice / Conor Gearty
• Climate ethics and human rights / John H. Knox
• Directional climate justice: the normative relationship between moral claim rights and directed obligations / Marcus Hedahl
• Changing images of climate change : human rights and future generations / Henry Shue
• Trade in the service of climate change mitigation : the question of linkage / Olivier De Schutter
• Towards 'climate justice'? A critical reflection on legal subjectivity and climate injustice : warning signals, patterned hierarchies, directions for future law and policy / Anna Grear
• Climate justice : the claim of the past / Stephen Humphreys.

"A special issue of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment.".
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• Overview
• Regions
• Report findings.

• Introduction to the Clean Development Mechanism
• Conceptual framework
• Will preferential access measures overcome barriers to CDM projects in least developed countries?
• Discounting emission credits and competitiveness of different CDM host countries
• Does the CDM discourage emission reduction targets in advanced developing countries? An analysis of the 'low-hanging fruit' issue
• Do domestic renewable energy promotion policies lead to more CDM projects?
• Concluding remarks.

In this groundbreaking book, Paula Castro presents the first systematic categorization of positive and negative incentives generated by the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) for climate change mitigation in the Global South. To reduce the cost of meeting their greenhouse gas emission reduction commitments under the Kyoto Protocol, industrialized countries may rely on the CDM, a market instrument that allows them to count emission reductions from projects in developing countries as their own. Presented in four core empirical chapters, the book critically reviews whether and how the CDM creates incentives or disincentives for developing country action towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and draws lessons for the future international climate change regime. Recommendations and discussion on the reform of the CDM invoke debate on the future of this policy in developing countries, which is vital material for both policymakers and international institutions introducing similar instruments. Students and researchers working on topics related to environmental politics, climate policy, environmental economics and environmental science will also find this resource invaluable.
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• Machine generated contents note: 1. A Climate-Constrained World / Emanuele Massetti
• 2. Shifting the Boundary: The Role of Innovation / Lea Nicita
• 3. Getting to Yes / Alessandra Sgobbi
• 4. Coping with Uncertainty / Massimo Tavoni
• 5. Climate Policy and the Forestry Sector: The Role of Non-energy Emissions / Valentino Bosetti
• 6. Adaptation and Mitigation: What is the Optimal Balance? / Enrica De Cian
• 7. A Focus on the Latest Developments in the Modelling of Mitigation Options / Fabio Sferra
• 8. Conclusions / Massimo Tavoni
• 9. Complete List of Publications that Use WITCH.

• Introduction
• The unavoidability of justice
• Subsistence emissions and luxury emissions
• After you : may action by the rich be contingent upon action by the poor?
• Avoidable necessity : global warming, international fairness, and alternative energy
• Equity in an international agreement on climate change
• Environmental change and the varieties of justice
• Eroding sovereignty : the advance of principle
• Bequeathing hazards : security rights and property rights of future humans
• Global environment and international inequality
• Climate
• A legacy of danger : the Kyoto Protocol and future generations
• Responsibility to future generations and the technological transition
• Making exceptions
• Deadly delays, saving opportunities : creating a more dangerous world?
• Face reality? After you! : a call for leadership on climate change
• Human rights, climate change, and the trillionth ton
• Climate hope : implementing the exit strategy
• Appendix: Declaration on climate justice / High Level Advisory Committee to the Climate Justice Dialogue, United Nations.

The fruit of twenty years of moral reflection on the emerging greatest challenge to humanity of the 21st century, these far-sighted and influential essays by a pioneering practical philosopher on the tangled questions of justice between nations and justice across generations confronting all attempts at international cooperation in controlling climate change sharply crystallize the central choices and offer constructive directions forward. Arguing that persistent attempts by U.S. negotiators to avoid the fundamental issues of justice at the heart of persistent international disagreement on the terms of a binding multilateral treaty are as morally misguided as they are diplomatically counter-productive, Henry Shue has built a case that efforts to price carbon (through cap-and-trade or carbon taxes) as a mechanism to drive down greenhouse gas emissions by the affluent must, for both ethical and political reasons, be complemented by international transfers that temporarily subsidize the development of non-carbon energy and its dissemination to those trapped in poverty. Our vital escape from climate change rooted in the dominance of the fossil fuel regime ought not, and in fact need not, come at the price of de-railing the escape of the world's poorest from poverty rooted in lack of affordable energy that does not undermine the climate. The momentum of changes in the planetary climate system and the political inertia of energy regimes mean that future generations, like the poorest of the present, are vulnerable to our decisions, and they have rights not to be left helpless by those of us with the power instead to leave them hope.
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• The green paradox : a mirage? / Karen Pittel, Rick van der Ploeg, and Cees Withagen
• Supply-side climate policy and the green paradox / Michael Hoel
• The green paradox as a supply phenomenon / Julien Daubanes and Pierre Lasserre
• The green paradox under imperfect substitutability between clean and dirty fuels / Ngo Van Long
• Fossil fuels, backstop technologies, and imperfect substitution / Gerard van der Meijden
• Innovation and the green paradox / Ralph A. Winter
• Resource extraction and backstop technologies in general equilibrium / Ngo Van Long and Frank Stähler
• Does a future rise in carbon taxes harm the climate? / Florian Habermacher and Gebhard Kirchgässner
• The impacts of announcing and delaying green policies / Darko Jus and Volker Meier
• Going full circle : demand-side constraints to the green paradox / Corrado Di Maria, Ian Lange, and Edwin van der Werf
• Quantifying intertemporal emissions leakage / Carolyn Fischer and Stephen Salant.

A detailed and rigorous analysis of the effect of climate policies on climate change that questions the empirical and theoretical support for the "green paradox." Recent developments suggest that well-intended climate policies-including carbon taxes and subsidies for renewable energy-might not accomplish what policy makers intend. Hans-Werner Sinn has described a "green paradox, " arguing that these policies could hasten global warming by encouraging owners of fossil fuel reserves to increase their extraction rates for fear that their reserves will become worthless. In this volume, economists investigate the empirical and theoretical support for the green paradox. Offering detailed and rigorous analyses of the forces and assumptions driving Sinn's argument, the contributors consider whether rising carbon tax rates inevitably speed up climate change; the effects of the design of resource markets, the availability of clean substitutes, and the development of new technologies; and the empirical evidence (or lack thereof) for the green paradox result. They consider extraction costs; sustainability and innovation; timing, announcement effects, and time consistency in relation to policy measures; and empirical results for the green paradox phenomena under several alternative policy measures. Contributors Julien Daubanes, Corrado Di Maria, Carolyn Fischer, Florian Habermacher, Michael Hoel, Darko Jus, Gebhard Kirchgassner, Ian Lange, Pierre Lasserre, Volker Meier, Karen Pittel, Stephen Salant, Frank Stahler, Gerard van der Meijden, Frederick van der Ploeg, Edwin van der Werf, Ngo Van Long, Ralph A. Winter, Cees Withagen.
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• The evolution of global climate governance
• The concept of fragmentation
• Types of regime interaction
• Management of regime interactions
• The UN climate regime and minilateral clean technology agreements
• The UN climate regime and the Convention on Biological Diversity
• The UN climate regime and the World Trade Organization
• Regime interactions in global climate governance
• Conclusions and ways forward.

• Adaptation to climate change in the international climate change regime : challenges and responses / Tanzim Afroz and Mostafa Mahmud Naser
• Advancing forest-related adaptation : options for adaptation-oriented REDD+ / Andrew Long
• Innovation, adaptation and climate change law / Elizabeth Burleson
• Managing adaptation : developing a learning infrastructure in the United States' federal system / Alejandro E. Camacho
• Adaptation strategies in the Netherlands / Joyeeta Gupta, Judith E.M. Klostermann, Emmy Bergsma, and Pieter Jong
• Liability for damage caused by climate change : a way to internalize the costs of adaptation? / Ingmar Piroch
• Strategy development and risk management in the context of emission rights trading / Magdalena Mißler-Behr and Sana Mehicic
• The possibilities and potential advantages of the life cycle assessment in the framework of climate change mitigation / Marek Gawor
• Framework for analysing institutional capacity for wetland management : the case of the Gemenc Floodplain / Hendrike clouting, Wim Douven, Elena Ostrovskaya, Beata Pataki, and Klaas Schwartz
• Adaptation to climate change in developing countries : a need in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria / Chika Ubaldus Ogbonna
• Climate change adaptation and biodiversity conservation : an economic perspective / Frank Wätzold
• Economic instruments for integrating climate change considerations into development strategies of industrial regions in Ukraine : experience and issues / Ludmila Palekhova
• Risk management and climate change : a question of insurability / Lars Krause and Terence Onang Egute
• The cumulative impacts of climate change on subsistence agriculture in the Sudano-Sahel zone of Cameroon : enhancing adaptation policies / Prosper Somah Techoro and Michael Schmidt
• Climate change in Cameroon and its impacts on agriculture / Cornelius M. Lambi and Sunday S. Kometa
• Cameroon's sustainable forest management initiatives with potentials for climate change mitigation and adaptation / Terence Onang Egute and Eike Albrecht
• The Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) as German way of a future-oriented energy policy change / André Zschiegner and Emmanuel Wanki
• Climate change effects on agriculture and water resources availability in Syria / Bachar Ibrahim
• Crowdsourcing and climate change : applications of collaborative information systems for monitoring and response / Hendrik Send, Anna Riedel, and Anna Hansch
• Beside adaptation : concepts for the future / Simon Spyra and Eike Albrecht.

The causes and effects of climate change are just as varied as the proposed solutions and approaches for dealing with the problem. Given the global character of climate change, comprehensive global cooperation is called for that leads to effective and appropriate international action in accordance with the respective responsibilities. These will inevitably differ depending on the capabilities and the social and economic situations of the respective actors. The contributions in this book present a variety of ideas, approaches and tools regarding the adaptation to climate change in specific countries and regions. In addition to examining (existing) legal instruments, they also focus on the implementation of economic instruments and planning tools, as well as their (further) development. Rather than simply discussing strategies to counteract climate change by reducing emissions, the authors also search for ways of actively adapting to climate change.
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• Polar oceans governance : shifting seascapes, hazy horizons / Tim Stephens and David L. VanderZwaag
• Part I. Environmental change in the polar oceans
• Environmental change and governance challenges in the Southern Ocean / Marcus Haward and Julia Jabour
• Environmental change in the Arctic region / Lorne Kriwoken
• Part II. Geostrategic dynamics in the polar oceans
• Rising temperatures, rising tensions : power politics and regime building in the Arctic / Rob Huebert
• Power politics in the Antarctic Treaty System / Melissa Weber
• Part III. Resources, environment, sovereignty and jurisdiction : bipolar perspectives
• Is joint development possible in the Arctic? / Rizal Abdul Kadir
• From hydrocarbons to psychrophiles : the "scramble" for Antarctic and Arctic resources / David Leary
• Polar continental shelves : Australian and Canadian challenges and opportunities / Tim Stephens
• The IMO's PSSA mechanism and the debate over the Northwest Passage / Suzanne Lalonde
• Part IV. Developing national and foreign policy responses
• Inuit perspectives on governance in the Canadian Arctic / Shelley Wright
• Arctic climate governance : can the canary in the coal mine lift Canada's head out of the sand(s)? / Meinhard Doelle
• Coastal state jurisdiction and the Polar Code : a test case for Arctic Oceans governance? / Rosemary Rayfuse
• Canada, the United States and international law of the sea in the Arctic Ocean / Ted L. McDorman
• Middle powers and oceans policy : Australian perspectives on Antarctic competition and cooperation / Donald R. Rothwell
• Part V. The future of polar oceans governance
• The durability of the "Antarctic model" and Southern Ocean governance / Ruth Davis
• The Arctic Council and the future of Arctic Ocean governance : edging forward in a sea of governance challenges / David L. VanderZwaag.

This timely book provides a cutting-edge assessment of how the dynamic ocean regions at the highest latitudes on earth are being managed in an era of unprecedented environmental change. The Arctic and Southern oceans are experiencing transformative environmental change as a result of climate change and ocean acidification. As areas of unparalleled environmental, cultural and scientific value, they are crucibles for testing how integrated, eco-systemic governance frameworks can be developed to meet and address volatile environmental, political and economic challenges. Drawing especially on Australian and Canadian experiences in polar oceans management through multilateral global and regional institutions, the book identifies policy options for improving the governance of the Arctic and Southern Oceans. In offering a pioneering 'bipolar' assessment of environmental management at both Polar Regions, this important book will be an essential resource for policymakers, scholars and students actively engaged in discussion and debate on the future of polar oceans governance in the Anthropocene. Stephens.
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• Economics and adaptation
• Uncertainty, equity, valuation and efficiency
• Adaptation in activity sectors
• Other dimensions of adaptation.

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing human kind owing to the great uncertainty regarding future impacts, which affect all regions and many ecosystems. Many publications deal with economic issues relating to mitigation policies, but the economics of adaptation to climate change has received comparatively little attention. However, this area is is critical and a central pillar of any adaptation strategy or plan and is the economic dimension, which therefore merits the increase in attention it is receiving. This book deals with the difficulties that face the economics of adaptation. Critical issues include: uncertainty; baselines; reversibility, flexibility and adaptive management; distributional impacts; discount rates and time horizons; mixing monetary and non-monetary evaluations and limits to the use of cost-benefit analysis; economy-wide impacts and cross-sectoral linkages. All of these are addressed in the book from the perspective of economics of adaptation. Other dimensions of adaptation are also included, such as the role of low- and middle-income countries, technology and the impacts of extreme events. This timely book will prove essential reading for international researchers and policy makers in the fields of natural resources, environmental economics and climate change.
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Examines the devastating and unprecedented events of Hurricane Sandy, using it to explain the Earth's changing climate and how to protect cities and coastal areas from the effects of huge storms.

"The first complete moment-by-moment account of the largest Atlantic storm system ever recorded-a hurricane like no other. The sky was lit by a full moon on October 29, 2012, but nobody on the eastern seaboard of the United States could see it. Everything had been consumed by cloud. The storm's immensity caught the attention of scientists on the International Space Station. Even from there, it seemed almost limitless: 1.8 million square feet of tightly coiled bands so huge they filled the windows of the Station. It was the largest storm anyone had ever seen. Initially a tropical storm, Sandy had grown into a hybrid monster. It charged across open ocean, picking up strength with every step, baffling meteorologists and scientists, officials and emergency managers, even the traditional maritime wisdom of sailors and seamen: What exactly was this thing? By the time anyone decided, it was too late. And then the storm made landfall. Sandy was not just enormous, it was also unprecedented. As a result, the entire nation was left flat-footed. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration couldn't issue reliable warnings; the Coast Guzard didn't know what to do. In Superstorm, journalist Kathryn Miles takes readers inside the maelstrom, detailing the stories of dedicated professionals at the National Hurricane Center and National Weather Service. The characters include a forecaster who risked his job to sound the alarm in New Jersey, the crew of the ill-fated tall ship Bounty, Mayor Bloomberg, Governor Christie, and countless coastal residents whose homes--and lives--were torn apart and then left to wonder. When is the next superstorm coming?"-- Provided by publisher.

• Cold rush : Canada defends the Northwest Passage
• Shell games : when an oil company believes in climate change
• Greenland rising : an independence movement heats up
• Father of invention : Israel saves the melting Alps
• Too big to burn : public fires, private firefighters
• Uphill to money : where water runs when it runs out
• Farmland grab : Wall Street goes to South Sudan
• Green wall, black wall : Africa tries to keep the Sahara at bay, Europe tries to keep Africa at bay
• Great wall of India : what to do about the Bangladesh problem
• Seawalls for sale : why the Netherlands loves sea-level rise
• Better things for better living : climate genetics
• Problem solved : our geoengineered future
• Epilogue: Magical thinking.

"An investigation into how entrepreneurial people and institutions around the globe are cashing in on the new world being created by global warming--and who will pay the price for it"-- Provided by publisher.

• Coastal issues / Margaret R. Caldwell, Eric H. Hartge, coordinating lead authors ; Lesley C. Ewing ... [et al.], lead authors.

• Contents: Acknowledgements Introduction: Mark A. Cohen, Don Fullerton and Robert H. Topel
• 1. Gary S. Becker, Kevin M. Murphy and Robert H. Topel (2010), 'On the Economics of Climate Policy'
• 2. Manasi Deshpande and Michael Greenstone (2010), 'Comment on "On the Economics of Climate Policy": Is Climate Change Mitigation the Ultimate Arbitrage Opportunity?'
• 3. Louis Kaplow, Elisabeth Moyer and David A. Weisbach (2010), 'The Social Evaluation of Intergenerational Policies and Its Application to Integrated Assessment Models of Climate Change'
• 4. Martin L. Weitzman (2010), 'Comment on "The Social Evaluation of Intergenerational Policies and Its Application to Integrated Assessment Models of Climate Change"'
• 5. Don Fullerton and Garth Heutel (2010), 'Analytical General Equilibrium Effects of Energy Policy on Output and Factor Prices'
• 6. Samuel Kortum (2010), 'Comment on "Analytical General Equilibrium Effects of Energy Policy on Output and Factor Prices"'
• 7. Joshua Blonz, Dallas Burtraw and Margaret A. Walls (2010), 'Climate Policy's Uncertain Outcomes for Households: The Role of Complex Allocation Schemes in Cap-and-Trade'
• 8. Arik M. Levinson (2010), 'Comment on "Climate Policy's Uncertain Outcomes for Households: The Role of Complex Allocation Schemes in Cap-and-Trade"'
• 9. Ian W.H. Parry and Roberton C. Williams (2010), 'What are the Costs of Meeting Distributional Objectives for Climate Policy?'
• 10. William Randolph (2010), 'Comment on "What are the Costs of Meeting Distributional Objectives for Climate Policy?"'
• 11. Sebastian Rausch, Gilbert E. Metcalf, John M. Reilly and Sergey Paltsev (2010), 'Distributional Implications of Alternative U.S. Greenhouse Gas Control Measures'
• 12. Shanta Devarajan (2010), 'Comment on "Distributional Implications of Alternative U.S. Greenhouse Gas Control Measures"'
• 13. Dale W. Jorgenson, Richard Goettle, Mun S. Ho, Daniel T. Slesnick and Peter J. Wilcoxen (2010), 'The Distributional Impact of Climate Policy'
• 14. Thomas Hertel (2010), 'Comment on "The Distributional Impact of Climate Policy"'
• 15. Joshua Elliott, Ian Foster, Kenneth Judd, Elisabeth Moyer and Todd Munson (2010), 'CIM-EARTH: Framework and Case Study'
• 16. Don Fullerton (2010), 'Comment on "CIM-EARTH: Framework and Case Study"'
• 17. Christoph Boehringer, Carolyn Fischer and Knut Einar Rosendahl (2010), 'The Global Effects of Subglobal Climate Policies'
• 18. Rodney D. Ludema (2010), 'Comment on "The Global Effects of Subglobal Climate Policies"'
• 19. Charles D. Kolstad (2010), 'Equity, Heterogeneity and International Environmental Agreements'
• 20. Scott Barrett (2010), 'Comment on "Equity, Heterogeneity and International Environmental Agreements"'.
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Governments around the globe have begun to implement various actions to limit carbon emissions in order to combat climate change. This book brings together some of the leading scholars in environmental and climate economics to examine the distributional consequences of policies designed to reduce these carbon emissions. Whether through a carbon tax, cap-and-trade system, or other mechanisms, most proposals to reduce carbon emissions include some kind of carbon pricing system - shifting the costs of emissions onto polluters and providing an incentive to find the least cost methods of abatement. This standard efficiency justification for pricing carbon also has important distributional consequences - a problem that is often ignored by economists while being a major focus of attention in the political arena. Leading scholars in environmental and climate economics take up these issues to examine such questions as: Will the costs fall on current or future generations? Will they fall on the rich, poor, middle class, or on everyone proportionally? Which countries will benefit, and which will suffer? Students and scholars interested in climate change along with policy makers will find this lively volume an invaluable addition to the quest for information on this globally important issue.
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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.

A hard look at the twin challenges of climate change and energy scarcity that examines historical precedents and allows no room for complacency. The future is not what it used to be because we can no longer rely on the comforting assumption that it will resemble the past. Past abundance of fuel, for example, does not imply unending abundance. Infinite growth on a finite planet is not possible. In this book, Joerg Friedrichs argues that industrial society itself is transitory, and he examines the prospects for our civilization's coming to terms with its two most imminent choke points: climate change and energy scarcity. He offers a thorough and accessible account of these two challenges as well as the linkages between them. Friedrichs contends that industrial civilization cannot outlast our ability to burn fossil fuels and that the demise of industrial society would entail cataclysmic change, including population decreases. To understand the social and political implications, he examines historical cases of climate stress and energy scarcity: devastating droughts in the ancient Near East; the Little Ice Age in the medieval Far North; the Japanese struggle to prevent "fuel starvation" from 1918 to 1945; the "totalitarian retrenchment" of the North Korean governing class after the end of Soviet oil deliveries; and Cuba's socioeconomic adaptation to fuel scarcity in the 1990s. He draws important lessons about the likely effects of climate and energy disruptions on different kinds of societies. The warnings of climate scientists are met by denial and inaction, while energy experts offer little guidance on the effects of future scarcity. Friedrichs suggests that to confront our predicament we must affirm our core values and take action to transform our way of life. Whether we are private citizens or public officials, complacency is not an option: climate change and energy scarcity are emerging facts of life.
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• Introduction.: Governing climate relations between Europe and Asia in a restructuring world order / David Belis, Hans Bruyninckx, Qi Ye and Nguyen Quang Thuan
• Pt. I.:The European Union, China and the global governance of climate change
• The increasingly complex nature of EU-China climate relations / Hans Bruyninckx and Qi Ye
• China, the European Union and global environmental governance : the case of climate chnage / David Belis and Simon Schunz
• Explaining the development of China's renewable energy policies : comparing wind and solare power / Sarah Van Eynde and Chang Pei-fei
• Cap or tax? : exploring the potential for a carbon tax or emissions trading in China / Kris Bachus and Cao Jing
• The governance of the CDM in China : achievements and deficiencies / David Belis, Bui Viet Hung and Nguyen Bich Thuan
• Pt. II.:EU-Vietnam climate relations : a study of the clean development mechanism
• The role and dynamics of the clean development mechanism in EU-Vietnam climate relations / David Belis
• The Vietnamese regulatory framework for the clean development Mechanism / Nguyen Quang Thuan and Tran Thi Thu Huyen
• Public-private partnerships in CDM implementation in Vietnam / Dinh Thi Ngoc Bich and Sarch Van Eynde
• Opportunities and challenges for Vietnamese enterprises involved in the CDM / Nguyen An Ha and Dang Minh Duc
• Case-study of Vietnamese hydropower CDM projects : shortcomings and barriers / Sarah Van Eynde, Lieven De Smet and Nguyen An Ha
• Pt. III.:Conclusion
• The governance of climate relations between Europe and Asia in the "pivotal decade" (2010-2020) : evidence from China and Vietnam / David Belis and Hans Bruyninckx.

The Governance of Climate Relations between Europe and Asia offers a thorough empirical study of the most fundamental dynamics involved in EU climate relations with China and Vietnam in the context of global climate governance. This book presents a study of the most important governance processes in current EU - Asia climate relations. It focuses on in-depth empirical case studies, offering a comprehensive relational perspective. Contributions on China cover the most essential issues, interests and actors, while the inquiry of EU - Vietnam relations mainly focuses on the Clean Development Mechanism as the main channel of bilateral climate action. This landmark study will appeal to both policymakers and practitioners faced with the extraordinary task of managing the increasingly complex and multilevel interactions of current EU - Asia climate relations as well as global carbon market watchers and professionals dealing with emissions trading in the European Union, China and Vietnam. It will also be of interest to scholars and postgraduate students of international relations, Chinese and EU foreign policy, global environmental and climate governance and international law.
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• CHAPTER 1: KERPLUNK! AND PLANET EARTH--
• CHAPTER 2: A MESSAGE FROM CLIMATE SCIENTISTS--
• CHAPTER 3: DEEPER WATERS--
• CHAPTER 4: A THIRSTY WORLD--
• CHAPTER 5: CLIMATE WARS: A SHOWER OF SPARKS--
• CHAPTER 6: CLIMATE CHANGE IS BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH--
• CHAPTER 7: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE.
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Deniers of climate change sometimes quip that claims about global warming are more about political science than climate science. They are wrong on the science, but may be right with respect to its political implications. A hotter world, writes Andrew Guzman, will bring unprecedented migrations, famine, war, and disease. It will be a social and political disaster of the first order. In Overheated, Guzman takes climate change out of the realm of scientific abstraction to explore its real-world consequences. He writes not as a scientist, but as an authority on international law and economics. He takes as his starting point a fairly optimistic outcome in the range predicted by scientists: a 2 degree Celsius increase in average global temperatures. Even this modest rise would lead to catastrophic environmental and social problems. Already we can see how it will work: The ten warmest years since 1880 have all occurred since 1998, and one estimate of the annual global death toll caused by climate change is now 300,000. That number might rise to 500,000 by 2030. He shows in vivid detail how climate change is already playing out in the real world. Rising seas will swamp island nations like Maldives; coastal food-producing regions in Bangladesh will be flooded; and millions will be forced to migrate into cities or possibly "climate-refugee camps." Even as seas rise, melting glaciers in the Andes and the Himalayas will deprive millions upon millions of people of fresh water, threatening major cities and further straining food production. Prolonged droughts in the Sahel region of Africa have already helped produce mass violence in Darfur. Clear, cogent, and compelling, Overheated shifts the discussion on climate change toward its devastating impact on human societies. Two degrees Celsius seems such a minor change. Yet it will change everything.
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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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Governments have failed to stem global emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases causing climate change. Indeed, climate-changing pollution is increasing globally, and will do so for decades to come without far more aggressive action. What explains this failure to effectively tackle one of the world's most serious problems? And what can we do about it? To answer these questions, Paul G. Harris looks at climate politics as a doctor might look at a very sick patient. He performs urgent diagnoses and prescribes vital treatments to revive our ailing planet before it's too late. The book begins by diagnosing what's most wrong with climate politics, including the anachronistic international system, which encourages nations to fight for their narrowly perceived interests and makes major cuts in greenhouse pollution extraordinarily difficult; the deadlock between the United States and China, which together produce over one-third of global greenhouse gas pollution but do little more than demand that the other act first; and affluent lifestyles and overconsumption, which are spreading rapidly from industrialized nations to the developing world. The book then prescribes several "remedies" for the failed politics of climate change, including a new kind of climate diplomacy with people at its center, national policies that put the common but differentiated responsibilities of individuals alongside those of nations, and a campaign for simultaneously enhancing human wellbeing and environmental sustainability. While these treatments are aspirational, they are not intended to be utopian. As Harris shows, they are genuine, workable solutions to what ails the politics of climate change today.
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• Introduction: Business as usual
• Climate capitalism
• Green angels or carbon cowboys?
• Population
• To be or not to be thirsty
• Sounding the alarm on hunger
• Animal pharm
• Modern feeling and the green city
• Spill, baby, spill
• Afterword: In the danger zone.

Although climate change has become the dominant concern of the twenty-first century, global powers refuse to implement the changes necessary to reverse these trends. Instead, they have neoliberalized nature and climate change politics and discourse, and there are indications of a more virulent strain of capital accumulation on the horizon. Adrian Parr calls attention to the problematic socioeconomic conditions of neoliberal capitalism underpinning the world's environmental challenges, and she argues that, until we grasp the implications of neoliberalism's interference in climate change talks and policy, humanity is on track to an irreversible crisis. Parr not only exposes the global failure to produce equitable political options for environmental regulation, but she also breaks down the dominant political paradigms hindering the discovery of viable alternatives. She highlights the neoliberalization of nature in the development of green technologies, land use, dietary habits, reproductive practices, consumption patterns, design strategies, and media. She dismisses the notion that the free market can solve debilitating environmental degradation and climate change as nothing more than a political ghost emptied of its collective aspirations. Decrying what she perceives as a failure of the human imagination and an impoverishment of political institutions, Parr ruminates on the nature of change and existence in the absence of a future. The sustainability movement, she contends, must engage more aggressively with the logic and cultural manifestations of consumer economics to take hold of a more transformative politics. If the economically powerful continue to monopolize the meaning of environmental change, she warns, new and more promising collective solutions will fail to take root.
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While climate change has become the dominant concern of the twenty-first century, global powers refuse to implement the changes required to reverse these trends. Rather, they have neoliberalized nature and climate change politics and discourse, indicating a more virulent strain of capital accumulation on the horizon. Adrian Parr calls attention to the problematic socioeconomic condition of neoliberal capitalism underpinning the world's environmental challenges, and she argues that, until we grasp the implications of neoliberalism's interference in climate change talks and policy, humanity is on track to an irreversible crisis. Parr not only exposes the global failure to produce equitable political options for environmental regulation, but she also breaks down the dominant political paradigms hindering the discovery of a viable alternative. She highlights the neoliberalization of nature in the development of green technologies, land use, dietary habits, reproductive practices, consumption patterns, design strategies, and media. She dismisses the notion that the free market can solve debilitating environmental degradation and climate change as nothing more than a political ghost emptied of its collective aspirations. Parr decries what she perceives as a failure of the human imagination and an impoverishment of political institutions, and she ruminates on the nature of change and existence in the absence of a future. The sustainability movement, she argues, must engage more aggressively with the logic and cultural manifestations of consumer economics to take hold of a more transformative politics. If the economically powerful continue to monopolize the meaning of environmental change, she warns, new, more promising collective solutions to our problems will fail to take root.
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• Introduction: Warming to a global challenge
• A crisis in slow motion : the science of global warming and the response needed
• Climate change and Australia : a vulnerable continent in a vulnerable region
• Global climate law and politics : from Rio to Cancún and beyond
• Australia's response to climate change
• Climate change "refugees"? : climate-related displacement and migration
• Climate wars? : conflict, security and climate change.

Climate change is one of the most hotly debated issues of this century. Politicians have risen and fallen on its wake, elections have been fought around it, and international leaders have come under unprecedented scrutiny by civil society. As Australia is battered by hotter summers, more frequent and severe floods, devastating bushfires, water shortages in capital cities, and coastal erosion on its beaches, more and more often the question being asked is , 'Is climate change the cause?' This book provides a clear, balanced account of the science on climate change, how it is affecting the planet and Australia, and the policy options available to Australia and the world to deal with it. It draws on the expertise of its authors from the disciplines of science, economics, geography and international law. Inquisitive readership will find this book compelling. Ben Saul is Professor of International Law and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the Faculty of Law, The University of Sydney. Steven Sherwood is a Professor at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science and Director of the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. Jane McAdam is a Professor and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales and a non-resident Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution in Washington DC. Tim Stephens is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, and Co-Director of the Sydney Centre for International Law. James Slezak is a partner and head of the Sustainability Practice at New York-based social change agency Purpose, and an affiliate at the Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
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• Introduction & acknowledgments: Climate change and international security : why foreign policy must meet the challenge / Hinrich Thölken and Weert Börner
• Overview : towards preventive climate diplomacy / Dennis Tänzler and Alexander Carius
• Climate diplomacy in perspective / Cornelia Pieper
• Climate change as a cross-cutting challenge / Achim Steiner
• Climate change and security : the challenges for Bangladesh / Hasan Mahmud
• Climate change and security : the challenges for small island states / Mohamed Shareef
• Diplomacy for water security / Mark Zeitoun
• Transboundary water management in Central Asia / Iskandar Abdullaev
• Water security and US foreign policy / Michael Werz
• Water diplomacy and climate change / Annika Kramer and Alexander Carius
• The prospects of global food security / Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher
• Food security as a key element of livelihood security : insights from the Sahel / Dennis Hamro-Drotz
• Climate diplomacy and warring states : finding solutions in India and Pakistan / Malini Mehra
• A twin challenge for diplomacy : climate change and food security / Salomé Bronkhorst and Dennis Tänzler
• Coastal vulnerabilities and climate change : insights from Bangladesh and beyond / A.N.M. Muniruzzaman
• Coastal regions, global security, and environmental change / Cleo Paskal
• Coastal instability : altering geographies, shifting priorities / Tom Spencer and Achim Maas
• Reflections on next steps for climate diplomacy / Viktor Elbling
• Elements of a new era of climate diplomacy / Alexander Carius and Dennis Tänzler.

• Climate change and the development challenge
• Climate mitigation and the energy challenge
• The adaptation challenge
• A state of change : climate and development policy
• Technology transfer for climate protection
• Financing the development response to climate change.

This book spells out, in more detail than usual, what can and should be done to avert the real risks of disaster. It summons us to an endeavour worthy of the resources and ingenuity of the twenty-first century - towards bold initiatives with big costs, and much bigger benefits. It explores the interconnected issues of climate and development, laying the groundwork for such a new deal. It presents a challenging agenda, and highlights the needs and perspectives of developing countries which may be unfamiliar or uncomfortable to readers in high-income countries. The unfortunate truth is that any large country, or group of mid-sized countries, can veto any global climate solution by refusing to participate, so a solution will only work if it works for everyone.
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Writing about climate change often falls into one of two opposite traps - predicting either calamity or apathy - both of which this book avoids. This is not a story of gloom and doom, of inevitable climate catastrophe. On the contrary, this book spells out, in more detail than usual, what can and should be done to avert the real risks of disaster. Nor is it one of complacent congratulation for "win-win" initiatives, cautiously incremental steps, and "green" consumer choices." Climate Protection and Development" summons us to an endeavour worthy of the resources and ingenuity of the twenty-first century - towards bold initiatives with big costs, and much bigger benefits. This book explores the interconnected issues of climate and development, laying the groundwork for just such a new deal. It presents a challenging agenda, and highlights the needs and perspectives of developing countries which may be unfamiliar or uncomfortable to readers in high-income countries. The unfortunate truth is that any large country, or group of mid-sized countries, can veto any global climate solution by refusing to participate, so a solution will only work if it works for everyone.
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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?

Explains climate change-- its implications for the future, and what we can, and cannot, do to avoid further change.

• Abbreviations and Acronyms Prologue: What Is the Hockey Stick?
• 1. Born in a War
• 2. Climate Science Comes of Age
• 3. Signals in the Noise
• 4. The Making of the Hockey Stick
• 5. The Origins of Denial
• 6. A Candle in the Dark
• 7. In the Line of Fire
• 8. Hockey Stick Goes to Washington
• 9. When You Get Your Picture on the Cover of...
• 10. Say it Ain't So (Smokey) Joe!
• 11. A Tale of Two Reports
• 12. Heads of the Hydra
• 13. The Battle of the Bulge
• 14. Climategate: The Real Story
• 15. Fighting Back Epilogue Glossary Notes Selected Bibliography Acknowledgments Index.
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The ongoing assault on climate science in the United States has never been more aggressive, more blatant, or more widely publicized than in the case of the Hockey Stick graph-a clear and compelling visual presentation of scientific data, put together by MichaelE. Mann and his colleagues, demonstrating that global temperatures have risen in conjunction with the increase in industrialization and the use of fossil fuels. Here was an easy-to-understand graph that, in a glance, posed a threat to major corporate energy interests and those who do their political bidding. The stakes were simply too high to ignore the Hockey Stick-and so began a relentless attack on a body of science and on the investigators whose work formed its scientific basis. The Hockey Stick achieved prominence in a 2001 UN report on climate change and quickly became a central icon in the "climate wars." The real issue has never been the graph's data but rather its implied threat to those who oppose governmental regulation and other restraints to protect the environment and planet. Mann, lead author of the original paper in which the Hockey Stick first appeared, shares the story of the science and politics behind this controversy. He reveals key figures in the oil and energy industries and the media frontgroups who do their bidding in sometimes slick, sometimes bare-knuckled ways. Mann concludes with the real story of the 2009 "Climategate" scandal, in which climate scientists' emails were hacked. This is essential reading for all who care about our planet's health and our own well-being.
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• Introduction / Patrick J. Michaels
• The executive state tackles global warming / Roger Pilon and Evan Turgeon
• A hot political climate : recent evolution of global warming policy and regulation / Patrick J. Michaels
• Bias in the peer review process : a cautionary and personal account / Ross McKitrick
• Global warming, environmental threats, and U.S security : recycling the domino theory / Ivan Eland
• Climate change and trade / Sallie James
• Economic development in developing countries : advancing human well-being and the capacity to adapt to global warming / Indur M. Goklany
• Global warming and human health / Robert E. Davis
• Learning fear : climate change and public education / Neal McCluskey.

A comprehensive documentation of the pervasive influence of global warming alarmism on various aspects of society.
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Despite convincing evidence that observed climate changes do not portend a calamitous future, global warming alarmism is invading nearly every aspect of our society. Children are flooded with apocalyptic visions and ideas in our schools. Poor countries shake down rich ones in the name of climate justice. Lawmakers try to impose tariffs and sanctions on nations that don't agree with their environmental preconceptions. Even the military uses climate change as an excuse to enlarge its budget. Edited by leading climatologist Patrick Michaels, widely acknowledged by climate alarmists as today's most effective advocate of the non-apocalyptic view of climate change. Michaels has gathered a team of first-rate experts on health, education, religion, defense, development, law, trade, and academic publication to produce this comprehensive documentation of the pervasive influence of global warming alarmism on almost every aspect of society.
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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.

For twenty years, Mark Hertsgaard investigated climate change, but it took the birth of his daughter to bring the truth home. Another revelation came when an expert advised that, without doubt, global warming had arrived, more than a hundred years earlier than expected. Now, with his daughter and the next generation in mind, Hertsgaard delivers a resounding, motivating message of hope that will spur activism among parents, college students, and all readers. He gives specifics about what we can expect in the next fifty years: Chicago's climate transformed to resemble Houston's; the loss of cherished crops and luxuries, such as California wines; the redesign of U.S. cities. Addressing problems we'll face very soon and revealing where they'll be most serious, Hertsgaard offers "pictures" of what unbiased experts expect, and looks at who is taking wise, creative precautions. Hot is, finally, a book about how we'll survive.--Publisher description.

• Contents: Introduction: making climate change meaningful-- Part I Historicising/Theorising Climate Change: Problematising science and environment: conceptualising nature, vision and time in the mediation of climate change-- Visualising climate change: negotiating the temporalities of climate through imagery-- Coda: nature, vision and time. Part II Mediating/Addressing Climate Change: An emerging climate movement: questioning values of environment, justice and faith-- Mediating Copenhagen: communicating scientific (un)certainty and the political (un)urgency of climate action-- Sustainable consumption? Reframing meat and dairy consumption in the politics of climate change-- Imaginative engagements: critical reflections on visual arts and climate change-- Epilogue: positive action in a changing climate-- References-- Index.
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Climate change has been a significant area of scientific concern since the late 1970s, but has only recently entered mainstream culture and politics. However, as media coverage of climate change increases in the twenty-first century, the gap between our understanding of climate change and climate action appears to widen. In this timely book, Julie Doyle explores how practices of mediation and visualisation shape how we think about, address and act upon climate change. Through historical and contemporary case studies drawn from science, media, politics and culture, Mediating Climate Change identifies the representational problems climate change poses for public and political debate. It offers ways forward by exploring how climate change can be made more meaningful through, for example, innovative forms of climate activism, the reframing of meat and dairy consumption, media engagement with climate events and science, and artistic experimentation. Doyle argues that cultural discourses have problematically situated nature and the environment as objects externalised from humans and culture. Mediating Climate Change calls for a more nuanced understanding of human-environmental relations, in order for us to be able to more fully imagine and address the challenges climate change poses for us all.
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• Introduction
• The challenge and its history
• Science, society, and public opinion
• Social impacts
• Security
• Justice
• Publics and movements
• Government responses
• Policy instruments
• Producers and consumers
• Global governance
• Reconstruction.

• 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.

• Preface-- List of units-- List of conversion factors-- List of abbreviations--
• 1. Introduction-- Part I. Climate:
• 2. Greenhouse Earth--
• 3. Climate modelling--
• 4. The past as proxy for the future--
• 5. Predicting the future-- Part II. Energy:
• 6. Taking up arms against this sea of troubles--
• 7. How fast to move: a physicist's look at the economists--
• 8. Energy, emissions and action--
• 9. Fossil fuels: how much is there?--
• 10. Electricity, emission and pricing carbon--
• 11. Efficiency: the first priority--
• 12. Nuclear energy--
• 13. Renewables--
• 14. Biofuels: is there anything there?--
• 15. An energy summary-- Part III. Policy:
• 16. US policy: new things, bad things, good things--
• 17. World policy action--
• 18. Coda-- References-- Index.
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Global climate change is one of the most important issues humanity faces today. This book assesses the sensible, senseless and biased proposals for averting the potentially disastrous consequences of global warming, allowing the reader to draw their own conclusions on switching to more sustainable energy provision. Burton Richter is a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who has served on many US and international review committees on climate change and energy issues. He provides a concise overview of our knowledge and uncertainties within climate change science , discusses current energy demand and supply patterns, and the energy options available to cut emissions of greenhouse gases. Written in non-technical language, this book presents a balanced view of options for moving from our heavy reliance on fossil fuels into a much more sustainable energy system, and is accessible to a wide range of readers without scientific backgrounds - students, policymakers, and the concerned citizen.
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• International environmental treaties : an introduction
• Sources of climate change problem
• The climate change convention regime
• Malaysian obigations and initiatives
• Proposed action and analysis
• In conclusion.