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Carbon captured :how business and labor control climate politics
A comparative examination of domestic climate politics that offers a theory for cross-national differences in domestic climate policymaking. Climate change threatens the planet, and yet policy responses have varied widely across nations. Some countries have undertaken ambitious programs to stave off climate disaster, others have done little, and still others have passed policies that were later…
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- 9780262357272
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- 1 online resource (368 pages).
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What we know about climate change
"This book argues that in spite of extreme views in the media, reasonable scientists agree that human activity has significantly increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere (dramatically so since the 1970s), and that there is good reason for concern. Kerry Emanuel explains the basic science of global warming to non-experts and shows why it is very difficult to predict when it will have a drama…
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- Second edition.
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- 9780262306065
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- 1 online resource (xi, 96 pages).
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Gaia in turmoil :climate change, biodepletion, and earth ethics in an age of …
Essays link Gaian science to such global environmental quandaries as climate change and biodiversity destruction, providing perspectives from science, philosophy, politics, and technology.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262258692
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 371 pages) :illustrations
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Strategic bargaining and cooperation in greenhouse gas mitigations :an integr…
A fresh approach to the economics of climate change that bridges integrated assessment modeling and game theoretic modeling.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262286510
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- 1 online resource (x, 191 pages) :illustrations
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The design of climate policy
Leading international economists offer theoretical quantitative, and policy perspectives on climate policy in this text.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262274500
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- 1 online resource (xii, 397 pages) :illustrations.
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Once Upon the Permafrost : Knowing Culture and Climate Change in Siberia
Once Upon the Permafrost is a longitudinal climate ethnography about “knowing” a specific culture and the ecosystem that culture physically and spiritually depends on in the twenty-first-century context of climate change. The author, anthropologist Susan Alexandra Crate, has spent three decades working with Sakha, the Turkic-speaking horse and cattle agropastoralists of northeastern Siberia…
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Engendering Climate Change : Learnings from South Asia
This book focuses on the gendered experiences of environmental change across different geographies and social contexts in South Asia and on diverse strategies of adapting to climate variability. The book analyzes how changes in rainfall patterns, floods, droughts, heatwaves and landslides affect those who are directly dependent on the agrarian economy. It examines the socio-economic pressure…
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- 9781003142409
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- 304.2 ENG
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