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  • Climate Adaptation Policy and Evidence

    Understanding the Tensions between Politics and Expertise in Public Policy

    by Peter Tangney ...
    Series series The Earthscan Science in Society Series
    Evidence-based policymaking is often promoted within liberal democracies as the best means for government to balance political values with technical considerations. Under the evidence-based mandate, both experts and non-experts often assume that policy problems are sufficiently tractable and that experts can provide impartial and usable advice to government so that problems like climate change ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • A Case for Climate Engineering

    by David Keith ...
    Series series Boston Review Books
    A leading scientist argues that we must consider deploying climate engineering technology to slow the pace of global warming.Climate engineering—which could slow the pace of global warming by injecting reflective particles into the upper atmosphere—has emerged in recent years as an extremely controversial technology. And for good reason: it carries unknown risks and it may undermine commitments to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Some Like It Cold

    The Politics of Climate Change in Canada

    by Robert C. Paehlke ...
    Some Like It Cold plunges headlong into the political conundrum of Canada’s climatechange debate. Focusing on the past responses of both Liberal and Conservative governmentsto the looming crisis—ranging from negligence to complicity and connivance—Paehlke illuminatesthe issues surrounding compliance with global regulations such as Kyoto, includingthe dilemma of tar sands development. But he also ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Climate Change and Society

    Sociological Perspectives

    Edited by Riley E. Dunlap, Robert J. Brulle ...
    Climate change is one of the most critical issues of the twenty-first century, presenting a major intellectual challenge to both the natural and social sciences. While there has been significant progress in natural science understanding of climate change, social science analyses have not been as fully developed. Climate Change and Society breaks new theoretical and empirical ground by presenting ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Kyoto2

    How to Manage the Global Greenhouse

    by Oliver Tickell ...
    The Kyoto Protocol, the world's first tentative step towards avoiding the threat of climate change, has failed. We urgently need a new course of action.In Kyoto2 the author presents us with a strikingly original new solution. Using a system of finite production rights for greenhouse gases, which would be traded by organisations on a global auction, Kyoto2 seeks to succeed where the original ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Global Greenhouse Regime

    Who Pays?

    by Kirk R. Smith ...
    Effective policies to prevent global warming and climatic change are urgently required by the world community. However, international negotiations on this issue repeatedly come up against the problems of allocating responsibility for the greenhouse effect, and bearing the costs of remedying the situation.;This volume offers a multidisciplinary response to the challenge. It presents the scientific, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Implementing the Climate Regime

    International Compliance

    by Olav Schram Stokke ...
    Global warming is the most severe environmental challenge faced by humanity today and the costs of responding effectively will be high. While Russia's ratification of the Kyoto Protocol ensures the treaty's entry into force, lack of capacity, or incentives to renege on their commitments, will impede mitigation efforts in many countries. An important prerequisite for the proper functioning of the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Carbon-related Border Adjustment and WTO Law

    by Kateryna Holzer ...
    By expounding the legal foundations of border tax adjustments in international trade regulation, this book lays out the scope and limitations within which border carbon adjustments need to operate.The author examines the extent to which countries can lawfully impose border adjustment measures in relation to the carbon footprint of products on importation and exportation. In doing so, she provides ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • As the World Burns

    50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial-A Graphic Novel

    by Derrick Jensen, Stephanie McMillan ...
    Two of America's most talented activists team up to deliver a bold and hilarious satire of modern environmental policy in this fully illustrated graphic novel. The U.S. government gives robot machines from space permission to eat the earth in exchange for bricks of gold. A one-eyed bunny rescues his friends from a corporate animal-testing laboratory. And two little girls figure out the secret to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Understanding Environmental Policy

    by Steven Cohen ...
    The first edition of this pragmatic course text emphasized the policy value of a "big picture" approach to the ethical, political, technological, scientific, economic, and management aspects of environmental issues. The text then applied this approach to real-world case examples involving leaks in underground storage tanks, toxic waste cleanup, and the effects of global climate change.This second ... Read more

    $33.29 USD