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A case for climate engineering
A leading scientist argues that we must consider deploying climate engineering technology to slow the pace of global warming."Climate engineering -- which could slow the pace of global warming by injecting reflective particles into the upper atmosphere -- has emerged in recent years as an extremely controversial technology. And for good reason: it carries unknown risks and it may undermine comm…
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- 9781461943839
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 194 pages).
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Power in a warming world :the new global politics of climate change and the r…
After nearly a quarter century of international negotiations on climate change, we stand at a crossroads. A new set of agreements is likely to fail to prevent the global climate's destabilization. Islands and coastlines face inundation, and widespread drought, flooding, and famine are expected to worsen in the poorest and most vulnerable countries. How did we arrive at an entirely inequitable a…
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- 9780262330039
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Warming the World: Economic Models of Global Warming
This book presents in detail a pair of models of the economics of climate change. The models, called RICE-99 (for the Regional Dynamic Integrated model of Climate and the Economy) and DICE-99 (for the Dynamic Integrated Model of Climate and the Economy) build on the authors' earlier work, particularly their RICE and DICE models of the early 1990s. Humanity is risking the health of the natural e…
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- 9780262280747
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- 1 online resource (xii, 232 pages) :illustrations
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A world to live in :an ecologist's vision for a plundered planet
A century of industrial development is the briefest of moments in the half billion years of the earth's evolution. And yet our current era has brought greater changes to the earth than any period in human history. The biosphere, the globe's life-giving envelope of air and climate, has been changed irreparably. In A World to Live In, the distinguished ecologist George Woodwell shows that the bio…
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- 9780262333689
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 227 pages)
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The Green Paradox: A Supply-Side Approach to Global Warming
A leading economist develops a supply-side approach to fighting climate change that encourages resource owners to leave more of their fossil carbon underground.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262301367
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- 1 online resource (xv, 269 pages)
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Global shifts :business, politics, and deforestation in a changing world econ…
"A political economy analysis of global market shifts and their implications for the politics and governance of deforestation in agricultural supply chains"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262374446
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Why nuclear disarmament matters
From the former UN head weapons inspector in Iraq, a plea for a renewed global disarmament movement.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262268738
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- 1 online resource (95 pages).
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Food and the mid-level farm :renewing an agriculture of the middle
Discussing strategies for reviving an 'agriculture in the middle' and creating a food system that works for midsize farms and ranches, this book considers the ways midsize farms can regain vitality by scaling up aspects of small farms' operations to connect with consumers and develop food supply chains that preserve farmer identity.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262278751
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 296 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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The minimum means of reprisal :China's search for security in the nuclear age
An analysis of China's nuclear and space capabilities, deployment strategies, and stance in arms control negotiations, and the implications for U.S. defense strategy.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262278300
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 262 pages) :illustrations.
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Methods in mind
Experts discuss the wide variety of investigative tools available to cognitive neuroscience, including transcranial magnetic stimulation, neuroscience computation, fMRI, imaging genetics, and neuropharmacology, with particular emphasis on convergence of t.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262283410
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- 1 online resource (ix, 382 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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