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Governing Forests Through Transformative Change
Emerging Policy Pathways and Perspectives
Inbunden, 2026
1425 kr
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Forests have become a key topic in ongoing debates about sustainability, as they lie at the intersection of climate change, biodiversity loss, competing land uses and evolving demands on the bioeconomy. In Europe and around the world, forest governance is increasingly influenced by overlapping …
Climate Change: An Integrated Perspective
Inbunden, 1999
1643 kr
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Global climate change - rapid, substantial and human-induced - may have radical consequences for life on earth. The problem is a complex one, however, demanding a multi-disciplinary approach. A simple cost-benefit analysis cannot capture the essentials, nor can the issue be reduced to an emissions …
Climate Change in the South Pacific: Impacts and Responses in Australia, New Zealand, and Small Island States
Av Alexander Gillespie, William C.G. Burns
Inbunden, 1999
1643 kr
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The contributors to this book focus on climate change issues in Australia, New Zealand and the small island nations in the South Pacific, as the world struggles to formulate responses and cope with possible impacts of global warming. The emphasis is on the scientific, political and legal issues …
Biomass Burning and Its Inter-Relationships with the Climate System
Av John L. Innes, Martin Beniston m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
1643 kr
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This volume contains a selection of scientific papers which were presented at an international workshop held in Wengen, Switzerland, in September 1998. A number of state-of-the-art papers are presented, which discuss scientific, technological and socio-economic issues related to large forest fires …
Observing Land from Space
Science, Customers and Technology
Av Michel M. Verstraete, Massimo Menenti m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
1643 kr
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This volume offers a broad overview of the science and technology of remote sensing, its policy implications, and the needs of operational users in the context of climate change and environmental degradation over land. The various chapters derive from presentations originally made at the first …
Structure and Agent in the Scientific Diplomacy of Climate Change
An Empirical Case Study of Science-Policy Interaction in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Av T. Skodvin
Inbunden, 2000
1098 kr
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Research input constitutes a key component in the development of international environmental regime formation. Science-policy interaction is, however, complex and difficult, particularly because it is an encounter between two distinct systems of behaviour: the scientific ideal of impartiality and …
Linking Climate Change to Land Surface Change
Av S.J. McLaren, D.R. Kniveton
Inbunden, 2000
1643 kr
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Our views and understanding of variations in climate, geomorphological processes and the interrelationships that exist between climatic changes and land surface changes, both now and in the past, have developed greatly over the last decade. This book aims to encapsulate some of these recent …
Remote Sensing and Climate Modeling: Synergies and Limitations
Av Martin Beniston, Michel M. Verstraete
Inbunden, 2001
1643 kr
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This work covers state-of-the-art research in two domains which are largely complementary, but which have until now not made optimum use of their complementarity: remote sensing techniques and climate models. The material presented in the book covers such diverse areas within satellite remote …
Society, Behaviour, and Climate Change Mitigation
Av Eberhard Jochem, Jayant A. Sathaye m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
1752 kr
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change (IPCC) was jointly established by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Envir- ment Programme (UNEP) to assess the scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant for the understanding of the risk of …
Global Change and Protected Areas
Av Guido Visconti, Martin Beniston m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
2188 kr
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The scope of this book is to show that protected areas may be the regions where early signs of the impact of global change can be observed. These signs are not limited to physical parameters like temperature and precipitation, but could include changes in the biosphere and in social behaviour. The …
Climate Change and Developing Countries
Av Nijavalli H. Ravindranath, Jayant A. Sathaye
Inbunden, 2002
1098 kr
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Developing countries recognize the importance of their future role in responding to the uncertainty posed by global climate change through appropriate technical, institutional, and policy measures. A comprehensive assessment and understanding of issues relevant to developing countries, such as …
Climatic Change: Implications for the Hydrological Cycle and for Water Management
Inbunden, 2002
2188 kr
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year simulations in order to separate noise in the system from the climate change signal. Several contributing papers focused on case studies using Regional Climate Models (RCMs) linked to hydrological models, applied to the analysis of runoff under conditions of convective activity and extreme …
Climate Change and Developing Countries
Av Nijavalli H. Ravindranath, Jayant A. Sathaye
Häftad, 2002
1098 kr
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Among global environmental issues, climate change has received the largest attention of national and global policy makers, researchers, industry, multilateral banks and NGOs. Climate change is one of the most important global environmental problems with unique characteristics. It is global, …
East African Great Lakes: Limnology, Palaeolimnology and Biodiversity
Av Eric O. Odada, Daniel O. Olago
Inbunden, 2002
2188 kr
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This volume contains research papers presented during the Second International Symposium on the Limnology, Climatology, Palaeoclimatology, and Biodiversity of the African Great Lakes, organized by the International Decade for the East African Lakes (IDEAL). The book provides comprehensive coverage …
Remote Sensing of Atmosphere and Ocean from Space: Models, Instruments and Techniques
Av Frank S. Marzano, Guido Visconti
Inbunden, 2003
1861 kr
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This book is a collection of the lectures, held at the International Summer School ISSAOS-2000 in L'Aquila (Italy), given by invited lecturers coming from both Europe and the USA. The goal of the book is to provide a broad panorama of spaceborne remote sensing techniques, at both microwave and …
Climate Variability and Change in High Elevation Regions: Past, Present & Future
Inbunden, 2003
1098 kr
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The United Nations' International Year of Mountains - 2002 can be regarded as the culmination of a long process involving research, development of research networks, a greater awareness by various sectors of society of the critical importance of mountain regions for a sustainable future, and …
Climate and Water
Transboundary Challenges in the Americas
Av Henry F. Diaz, B.J. Morehouse
Inbunden, 2003
1643 kr
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This text explores some of the ways that climate, hydrology, and water resource management converge at the borders between jurisdictions and countries in the western Hemisphere. It focuses on case studies of climate-hydrology-water resource management in diverse contexts in South, Central, and …
Scattered and Filtered Solar UV Measurements
Av Alfio V. Parisi, Jeff Sabburg m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
1098 kr
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Scattered and Filtered Solar UV Measurements provides comprehensive information about the scattered and filtered solar UV environment, the techniques to measure this radiation and the resulting UV exposures to humans. The incidence of skin cancer and sun-related eye disorders can be reduced by the …
Emissions of Atmospheric Trace Compounds
Av Clare Granier, Paulo Artaxo m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
3279 kr
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This book was conceived during the workshop "Emission of Chemical Species and Aerosols into the Atmosphere" which took place in Paris in June 2001, involving many experts who presented a number of state-of-the-art papers. Many of these papers are presented in this book where they are set in the …
Climatic Change and Its Impacts
An Overview Focusing on Switzerland
Inbunden, 2004
1098 kr
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Climatic Change is a rapidly evolving domain that has prompted the publication of numerous scientific works in recent years, reflecting both the public and scientific interest in the topic. This book focuses upon climate processes, variability and change and applies the general principles related …
Environmental Change and its Implications for Population Migration
Av Jon D. Unruh, Maarten Krol m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
1643 kr
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Environmental change in general, and climatic change in particular, are likely to impact significantly upon resources such as water and soils, transforming present day landscapes and their ecological characteristics. As a consequence, disruptions of socio-economic activities in sensitive regions of …
Hadley Circulation: Present, Past and Future
Av Henry F. Diaz, Raymond S. Bradley
Inbunden, 2005
2188 kr
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Climate dynamicists generally characterize the Hadley circulation in terms of some derived meteorological parameters, such as the mass stream function (the nondivergent part of the flow) or the velocity potential (the divergent circulation), both of which are based on measurements of the …
Coupling of Climate and Economic Dynamics
Essays on Integrated Assessment
Av Alain Haurie, Laurent Viguier
Inbunden, 2005
1643 kr
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Climate and economies have interdependent dynamics. Even though the pace of climate change is probably much slower than the speed of adjustment of the world economies, the global climate change impact of economic development and growth has to be controlled and taken into account in the policy …
Global Change and Mountain Regions
An Overview of Current Knowledge
Av Uli M. Huber, Harald K.M. Bugmann m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
1643 kr
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Mountain regions occupy about a quarter of the global terrestrial land surface and provide goods and services to more than half the humanity. Global environmental change threatens the integrity of these systems and their ability to provide the goods and services upon which humanity has come to …
Global Change and Mountain Regions
An Overview of Current Knowledge
Av Uli M. Huber, Harald K.M. Bugmann m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
1643 kr
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Mountain regions occupy about a quarter of the global terrestrial land surface and provide goods and services to more than half the humanity. Global environmental change threatens the integrity of these systems and their ability to provide the goods and services upon which humanity has come to …
Microwave Radiometry of Vegetation Canopies
Inbunden, 2006
1643 kr
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Research into microwave radiation from the Earth’s surface in the presence of vegetation canopies, as well as the development of algorithms for retrieval of soil and vegetation parameters from microwave radiometric measurements, have been actively conducted for the last 30 years by scientific …
Comparative Environmental Politics
Av Jerry McBeath, Jonathan Rosenberg
Inbunden, 2006
1970 kr
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While we cannot hope to provide definitive answers to these questions, as political scientists we proceed from the assumption that much can be learned through the application of the existing tools of comparative political analysis. Two of the incidents occurred in developing countries (one a …
Hacia el Futuro
Energy, Economics and the Environment in 21st Century Mexico
Av Maria Eugenia Ibarrarán, Roy Boyd
Inbunden, 2006
1098 kr
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The past 25 years have witnessed an increasing worldwide concern over the issue of climate change and the specter of immense environmental and economic damage which would accompany unmitigated global warming trends. National governments in the industrialized world along with numerous multinational …
Biomass Future for the North American Great Plains
Toward Sustainable Land Use and Mitigation of Greenhouse Warming
Inbunden, 2007
1098 kr
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WHY THIS BOOK? This book is an exploration of the possibility that a significant portion of the North American Great Plains (NAGP), now primarily in rangeland, corn, soybean, and small-grain production, can be converted to the production of biomass-energy crops. Biomass can be used as a substitute …
Measuring Precipitation from Space
EURAINSAT and the Future
Av V. Levizzani, P. Bauer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
3279 kr
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Measuring Precipitation from Space presents state-of-the-art rainfall estimation algorithms, validation strategies, precipitation modelling, and assimilation in numerical weather prediction models. Clouds and precipitation observations and modelling are addressed for the improvement of the rainfall …
