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  • Lowering the Cost of Emission Reduction: Joint Implementation in the Framework Convention on Climate Change

    by M.A. Ridley ...
    Series Book 10 - Environment & Policy
    Lowering the Cost of Emission Reduction by Dr Michael Ridley investigates a novel way to reduce the cost of carbon dioxide and sulphur dioxide emission reduction. This book asks whether allowing countries to substitute emission reduction undertaken abroad in lieu of emission reduction at home will reduce the cost of emission reduction and allow more rapid and acute falls in pollution.Analysing US ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Beyond Smoke and Mirrors

    Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century

    by Burton Richter ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    Global climate change is one of the most important issues humanity faces today. This updated, second edition assesses the sensible, senseless and biased proposals for averting the potentially disastrous consequences of global warming, allowing the reader to draw their own conclusions on switching to more sustainable energy provision. Burton Richter is a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who has served ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Global Environment

    Edited by Kei Takeuchi, Masatoshi Yoshino ...
    The ffiM Japan International Symposium Energy and Environment - Global Warming was held in the Keidanren Guesthouse at the foot of Mt. Fuji, from October 21 to 24, 1990. The symposium was conducted in the context of ffiM Japan's longstanding commitment to good corporate citizenship. On this beautiful planet with its inter-dependent waters, lands and atmo sphere, we consider that the problems ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Transforming Water Management in South Africa

    Designing and Implementing a New Policy Framework

    Edited by Barbara Schreiner, Rashid M. Hassan ...
    Series Book 2 - Global Issues in Water Policy
    One of the early set of reforms that South Africa embarked on after emerging from apartheid was in the water sector, following a remarkable, consultative process. The policy and legal reforms were comprehensive and covered almost all aspects of water management including revolutionary changes in defining and allocating rights to water, radical reforms in water management and supply institutions, ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Economics of Climate Change: The Contribution of Forestry Projects

    by Wolfram Kägi ...
    Series Book 21 - Environment & Policy
    Climate change is one of the major global environmental problems, one that has the potential to confront us with great costs during the decades to come. Climate change is caused by emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) such as carbon dioxide (CO). As z deforestation leads to CO emissions and growing forests sequester CO, forestry z z projects provide us with options to mitigate CO effects. This ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Successful Agricultural Innovation in Emerging Economies

    New Genetic Technologies for Global Food Production

    Edited by David J. Bennett, Richard C. Jennings ...
    World population is forecast to grow from 7 to 9 billion by 2050, 1 in 6 is already hungry and food production must increase by 70-100% if it is to feed this growing population. No single solution will solve this problem but recent developments in the genetic technologies of plant breeding can help to increase agricultural efficiencies and save people from hunger in a sustainable manner, ... Read more

    $61.49 USD

  • Law and Economics of International Climate Change Policy

    by John O. Niles, Eric Levy, R. Schwarze ...
    Series Book 30 - Environment & Policy
    International climate change policy can be broadly divided into two periods: A first period, where a broad consensus was reached to tackle the risk of global warming in a coordinated global effort, and a second period, where this consensus was finally framed into a concrete policy. The first period started at the "Earth Summit" of Rio de Janeiro in 1992, where the United Nations Framework ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Climate Change and Water Resources Planning Criteria

    Edited by Kenneth D. Frederick, D.C. Major, Eugene Z. Stakhiv ...
    Global climate change is expected to have major impacts on water resources and aquatic ecosystems. This prospect presents planners, who are already struggling to meet the demands of growing populations and economies, with new challenges. This volume examines these challenges and the resulting conceptual issues for water planning and project evaluation practices. The book is the first attempt to ... Read more

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  • Distributed Hydrologic Modeling Using GIS

    by Baxter E. Vieux ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    5 REFERENCES 127 7 DIGITAL TERRAIN 129 1. 1 INTRODUCTION 129 1. 2 DRAINAGE NETWORK 130 1. 3 DEFINITION OF CHANNEL NETWORKS 135 1. 4 RESOLUTION DEPENDENT EFFECTS 138 1. 5 CONSTRAINING DRAINAGE DIRECTION 141 1. 6 SUMMARY 145 1. 7 REFERENCES 146 8 PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT 149 1. 1 INTRODUCTION 149 1. 2 RAIN GAUGE ESTIMATION OF RAINFALL 151 ADAR STIMATION OF RECIPITATION 1. 3 R E P 155 1. 4 WSR-88D ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Global Environmental Change and Land Use

    Edited by C.A. Rovers, Han Haarman, A. Verhagen ...
    The interaction between environmental change and human activities is com plex, requiring the concepts and tools of a number of disciplines for its effective analysis. Land-use and land-cover change has only recently become a topic susceptible to scientific research, as these concepts and tools have been devel oped and made available. Rooted in a broad community concemed with global change, ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Post-2020 Climate Action

    Global and Asian Perspectives

    Edited by Shinichiro Fujimori, Mikiko Kainuma, Toshihiko Masui ...
    This book summarizes assessments of the Paris Agreement to provide an excellent introduction to this research field. The AIM/CGE (Asia-Pacific Integrated Modeling /Computable General Equilibrium) model, which is the core of AIM modeling framework, is used for the assessment.The first part focuses on global issues, presenting both short-term (a few decades) and long-term (century scale) assessments ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Water Policy and Governance in Canada

    Edited by Steven Renzetti, Diane P. Dupont ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book provides an insightful and critical assessment of the state of Canadian water governance and policy. It adopts a multidisciplinary variety of perspectives and considers local, basin, provincial and national scales. Canada’s leading authorities from the social sciences, life and natural sciences address pressing water issues in a non-technical language, making them accessible to a wide ... Read more

    $143.09 USD