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Global climate policy :actors, concepts, and enduring challenges
Analyses of the international climate change regime consider the challenges of maintaining current structures and the possibilities for creating new forms of international cooperation.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262346467
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Changing the Atmosphere: Expert Knowledge and Environmental Governance
In recent years, Earth systems science has advanced rapidly, helping to transform climate change and other planetary risks into major political issues. Changing the Atmosphere strengthens our understanding of this important link between expert knowledge and environmental governance. In so doing, it illustrates how the emerging field of science and technology studies can inform our understanding…
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- 9780262279819
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- 1 online resource (xii, 385 pages) :illustrations.
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Ethical adaptation to climate change :human virtues of the future
Predictions about global climate change have produced both stark scenarios of environmental catastrophe and purportedly pragmatic ideas about adaptation. This book takes a different perspective exploring the idea that the challenge of adapting to global climate change is fundamentally an ethical one.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262301541
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The future is not what it used to be : climate change and energy scarcity
"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, J?org Friedrichs argues that industrial society itself is transitory, and he examines the prospects for our civilization's coming …
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- 9780262316620
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From big oil to big green :holding the oil industry to account for the climat…
"The book addresses an issue of fast-growing concern in the academic and non-academic debate on climate change: the role and responsibility of the oil and gas industry, and the consequent implications for climate policy and politics, and for the governance of climate change"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262369788
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The great remobilization :strategies and designs for a smarter global future
"A roadmap for designing a more equitable and sustainable future"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262373791
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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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- 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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