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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
Chinese macrosecuritization: China's alignment in global security discourses
Introduction: Securitizing global concerns -- From Securitization to macrosecuritization -- Security in China -- The Cold War then and now -- Anti-nuclear discourse in China -- Climate security with Chinese characteristics -- China's War on Terror -- Potential Chinese
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- 9781003309413
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Why are we waiting? :the logic, urgency, and promise of tackling climate change
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.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262329200
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- 1 online resource (xxxv, 406 pages) :illustrations
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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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- 1 online resource.
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A Nuclear Winter's Tale: Science and Politics in the 1980s
Lawrence Badash traces the rise & fall of the concept of 'nuclear winter', played out in research activity, public relations & Reagan-era politics.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262258531
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 403 pages).
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Changing Climates in North American Politics: Institutions, Policymaking, and…
Changing Climates in North American Politics offers analysis of climate change policy innovations across North America at transnational, federal, state & local levels, involving public private & civic actors.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262259170
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 338 pages) :illustrations.
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Communities of Play: Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds
Changing Climates in North American Politics offers analysis of climate change policy innovations across North America at transnational, federal, state & local levels, involving public private & civic actors.
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- 9780262259125
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Global biomass burning : atmospheric, climatic, and biospheric implications
The burning of biomass - forests, grasslands, and agricultural fields after the harvest - is much more widespread and extensive than previously believed; most biomass burning is thought to be initiated by humans and is on the increase. This comprehensive volume is the first to consider biomass burning as a global phenomenon and to assess its impact on the atmosphere, on climate, and on the bios…
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- 9780262310895
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- 1 online resource (xxx, 569 pages) : illustrations, maps
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- 620 GLO
Political Theory and Global Climate Change
Political theorists consider the challenge of global climate change from a range of perspectives, including conceptual analysis, critical theory, critical legal studies, and neo-Marxism.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262285445
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 228 pages)
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Living in denial: Climate change, emotions, and everyday life
Global warming is the most significant environmental issue of our time, yet public response in Western nations has been meager. Why have so few taken any action? In this book sociologist Kari Norgaard searches for answers to this question.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295772
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- 1 online resource (xix, 279 pages) :illustrations
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