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Climate Uncertainty and Risk
Rethinking Our Response
Av Judith Curry
Häftad, 2023
377 kr
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World leaders have made a forceful statement that climate change is the greatest challenge facing humanity in the 21st century. However, little progress has been made in implementing policies to address climate change. In Climate Uncertainty and Risk, eminent climate scientist Judith Curry shows …
Atlas of Climate Change Impact on European Cultural Heritage
Scientific Analysis and Management Strategies
Av Cristina Sabbioni, Peter Brimblecombe m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
1156 kr
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‘The Atlas of Climate Change Impact on European Cultural Heritage’ aims to reveal the links between climate science and the potential damage to our material heritage. While the vulnerability atlas shows overall patterns of threat, greater detail about the scientific basis of the project can be …
Sophisticated Interdependence in Climate Policy
Federalism in the United States, Brazil, and Germany
Häftad, 2014
422 kr
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With the US as the world’s most prominent climate change outlaw, international pressure will not impel domestic action. The key to a successful global warming solution lies closer to home: in state–federal relations. Thomson proposes an innovative climate policy framework called “sophisticated …
Financial Engineering of Climate Investment in Developing Countries
Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action and How to Finance It
Inbunden, 2014
1156 kr
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The Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA) is the new kid on the block in the battle against climate change. The NAMA is the most decisive instrument devised to address the fact that today the only source of growing emissions are the world’s developing countries. But as it is based purely …
Climate Change and Global Equity
Av Frank Ackerman, Elizabeth A. Stanton
Inbunden, 2014
1156 kr
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Ambitious measures to reduce carbon emissions are all too rare in reality, impeded by economic and political concerns rather than technological advances. In this timely collection of essays, Frank Ackerman and Elizabeth A. Stanton show that the impact of inaction on climate change will be far worse …
Sophisticated Interdependence in Climate Policy
Federalism in the United States, Brazil, and Germany
Inbunden, 2014
1156 kr
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With the US as the world’s most prominent climate change outlaw, international pressure will not impel domestic action. The key to a successful global warming solution lies closer to home: in state–federal relations. Thomson proposes an innovative climate policy framework called “sophisticated …
Financial Engineering of Climate Investment in Developing Countries
Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action and How to Finance It
Häftad, 2015
413 kr
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The Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA) is the new kid on the block in the battle against climate change. The NAMA is the most decisive instrument devised to address the fact that today the only source of growing emissions are the world’s developing countries. But as it is based purely …
Climate Change and Global Equity
Av Frank Ackerman, Elizabeth A. Stanton
Häftad, 2015
422 kr
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Ambitious measures to reduce carbon emissions are all too rare in reality, impeded by economic and political concerns rather than technological advances. In this timely collection of essays, Frank Ackerman and Elizabeth A. Stanton show that the impact of inaction on climate change will be far worse …
Managing Climate Risks in Coastal Communities
Strategies for Engagement, Readiness and Adaptation
Av Lawrence Susskind, Danya Rumore m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1252 kr
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Drawing on research from the New England Climate Adaptation Project, “Managing Climate Risks for Coastal Communities” introduces a framework for building local capacity to respond to climate change. The authors maintain that local climate adaptation efforts require collective commitments to risk …
Water Diplomacy in Action
Contingent Approaches to Managing Complex Water Problems
Av Shafiqul Islam, Kaveh Madani
Inbunden, 2017
1400 kr
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Complex water problems cannot be resolved by numbers or narratives. Contingent and negotiated approaches are necessary for actionable outcome. In the face of a constantly changing array of interconnected water issues that cross multiple boundaries, the challenge is how to translate solutions that …
Water Diplomacy in Action
Contingent Approaches to Managing Complex Water Problems
Av Shafiqul Islam, Kaveh Madani
Häftad, 2017
389 kr
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Complex water problems cannot be resolved by numbers or narratives. Contingent and negotiated approaches are necessary for actionable outcome. In the face of a constantly changing array of interconnected water issues that cross multiple boundaries, the challenge is how to translate solutions that …
Creation of Markets for Ecosystem Services in the United States
The Challenge of Trading Places
Inbunden, 2016
1190 kr
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The Creation of Markets for Ecosystem Services in the United States is a detailed analysis of the most advanced efforts to create markets for ecosystem services in the United States. With the help of in-depth case studies of three well-known attempts to create such markets––in the Chesapeake Bay …
Conflict and Sustainability in a Changing Environment
Through the Eyes of Communities
Av Gwendolyn Smith, Elena P. Bastidas
Inbunden, 2017
1119 kr
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Using a case study of the Trio indigenous peoples in Suriname, Conflict and Sustainability in a Changing Environment presents an inside view of a community facing climate change and on the path toward sustainable development. Smith and Bastidas take the reader beyond an examination of examples from …
Turkey’s Water Diplomacy
Analysis of its Foundations, Challenges and Prospects
Inbunden, 2021
1156 kr
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‘Turkey’s Water Diplomacy’ delineates the institutional and legal foundations of transboundary water policy-making in Turkey, paying special attention to the evolution of transboundary water politics in the Euphrates–Tigris river basin. The book also analyses how Turkey’s harmonization with the …
Resolving Land and Energy Conflicts
Av Patrick Field, Tushar Kansal m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
1190 kr
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Resolving Land and Energy Conflicts studies energy in the landscape across gas and oil, wind, transmission and nuclear waste disposal. The authors are particularly interested in the conflicts that emerge from specific sites and proposals as well as how this unique land use plays out in terms of …
Labyrinth of Sustainability
Green Business Lessons from Latin American Corporate Leaders
Inbunden, 2019
1190 kr
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‘The Labyrinth of Sustainability’ offers the first comprehensive effort to analyze corporate sustainability systematically in the Latin American context—and to extract lessons for companies across the developing world. Featuring an introduction by the prizewinning author and Yale professor Daniel …
Labyrinth of Sustainability
Green Business Lessons from Latin American Corporate Leaders
Häftad, 2019
477 kr
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‘The Labyrinth of Sustainability’ offers the first comprehensive effort to analyze corporate sustainability systematically in the Latin American context—and to extract lessons for companies across the developing world. Featuring an introduction by the prizewinning author and Yale professor Daniel …
Sustainability Is the New Advantage
Leadership, Change, and the Future of Business
Inbunden, 2019
485 kr
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During the last 150 years, we have stressed the oceans, warmed the planet and overextended almost every natural resource. To create real change will require a generation of leaders and businesses that think and act differently. "Sustainability Is the New Advantage" identifies the skill sets, best …
Multicriteria Analysis for Environmental Decision-Making
Inbunden, 2019
725 kr
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Multicriteria analysis, or MCA, has been increasingly used in environmental decision-making to support the identification of suitable courses of action by integrating factual information with value-based information collected through stakeholder engagement. Multicriteria Analysis for Environmental …
Creation of Markets for Ecosystem Services in the United States
The Challenge of Trading Places
Häftad, 2019
435 kr
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The Creation of Markets for Ecosystem Services in the United States is a detailed analysis of the most advanced efforts to create markets for ecosystem services in the United States. With the help of in-depth case studies of three well-known attempts to create such markets––in the Chesapeake Bay …
Conflict and Sustainability in a Changing Environment
Through the Eyes of Communities
Av Gwendolyn Smith, Elena P. Bastidas
Häftad, 2019
422 kr
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Using a case study of the Trio indigenous peoples in Suriname, Conflict and Sustainability in a Changing Environment presents an inside view of a community facing climate change and on the path toward sustainable development. Smith and Bastidas take the reader beyond an examination of examples from …
Environmental Problem-Solving: Balancing Science and Politics Using Consensus Building Tools
Guided Readings and Assignments from MIT’s Training Program for Environmental Professionals
Av Lawrence Susskind, Bruno Verdini m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1769 kr
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‘Environmental Problem-Solving' presents short excerpts from carefully selected readings, expert commentaries on those readings, assignments, and the best MIT student responses to the assignments and exam questions with excellent student response. The book presents four main models of environmental …
Science Advice and Global Environmental Governance
Expert Institutions and the Implementation of International Environmental Treaties
Inbunden, 2019
1318 kr
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"Science Advice and Global Environmental Governance" examines expert committees established to provide advice on science to multilateral environmental agreements. By focusing on how these institutions are sites of coproduction of knowledge and policy, this work brings to light the politics of …
Cities, Climate Change, and Public Health
Building Human Resilience to Climate Change at the Local Level
Inbunden, 2020
1358 kr
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To date, climate adaptation has mostly focused on protecting physical assets from potentially catastrophic climatic changes. While the lack of human vulnerability and equity components in adaptation plans and policies has been critiqued by many, this has not yet led to climate adaptation planning …
Urban Crisis, Urban Hope
A Policy Agenda for UK Cities
Av Julian Dobson, Rowland Atkinson
Inbunden, 2020
1318 kr
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Urban Crisis, Urban Hope recognises that our cities are in crisis. It resurrects the concept of the city and its neighbourhoods as a crucible for new ideas and a site of innovative action, recognising the desperate need for support, resources and complementary visions at urban and national scales. …
Urban Crisis, Urban Hope
A Policy Agenda for UK Cities
Av Julian Dobson, Rowland Atkinson
Häftad, 2020
422 kr
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Urban Crisis, Urban Hope recognises that our cities are in crisis. It resurrects the concept of the city and its neighbourhoods as a crucible for new ideas and a site of innovative action, recognising the desperate need for support, resources and complementary visions at urban and national scales. …
Sustainability Is the New Advantage
Leadership, Change, and the Future of Business
Häftad, 2021
351 kr
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During the last 150 years, we have stressed the oceans, warmed the planet and overextended almost every natural resource. To create real change will require a generation of leaders and businesses that think and act differently. "Sustainability Is the New Advantage" identifies the skill sets, best …
Yellowstone’s Survival
A Call to Action for a New Conservation Story
Inbunden, 2021
1318 kr
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This book focuses on Yellowstone: the park, the larger ecosystem, and even more so, the “idea” of Yellowstone. In presenting a case for a new conservation paradigm for the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE), including Yellowstone National Park, the book, at its heart, is about people and nature …
Climate Uncertainty and Risk
Rethinking Our Response
Av Judith Curry
Inbunden, 2023
1318 kr
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World leaders have made a forceful statement that climate change is the greatest challenge facing humanity in the 21st century. However, little progress has been made in implementing policies to address climate change. In Climate Uncertainty and Risk, eminent climate scientist Judith Curry shows …
Climate Change and the Future of Seattle
Inbunden, 2021
1358 kr
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Seattle is one of the most politically progressive and economically dynamic cities in the contemporary United States. This book explores Seattle’s current climate policy agenda and future climate challenges within the context of its historical, bio-regional, and metropolitan settings. While …
