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Global warming and climate change = ten years after Kyoto and still counting /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Global warming and climate change/ editor, Velma I. Grover.
Reminder of title:	ten years after Kyoto and still counting /
other author:	Grover, Velma I.
Published:	Enfield, NH :Science Publishers, : 2008.,
Description:	1 online resource (2 v. (xxiv, 1124 p.)) :ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) :
Subject:	Climatic changes. -
Online resource:	http://www.crcnetbase.com/isbn/978-1-57808-539-2

Global warming and climate change = ten years after Kyoto and still counting /
Global warming and climate changeten years after Kyoto and still counting /[electronic resource] :editor, Velma I. Grover. - Enfield, NH :Science Publishers,2008. - 1 online resource (2 v. (xxiv, 1124 p.)) :ill. (some col.), maps (some col.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

v. 1. SECTION I: INTRODUCTION: Introduction: Climate change and Kyoto Protocol / Velma I. Grover Butterfly lessons / Elizabeth Kolbert - Climate or development: a practitioner's view / Holger Liptow and Kathrin Birkel -- Climate conflicts extricating Post-Kyoto debates in science and policy / Saleem H. Ali -- The politics of equity: precedent for Post-Kyoto per capita schemes / Jon Rosales -- Response to climate change by non-annex I parties / Mohammad Reza Salamat -- Climate change and collective action: troubles in the transition to a post-oil economy -- Communication failures in climate policy: complementary action or abrupt climate change / Peter Read -- SECTION II: PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH TO CLIMATE CHANGE: Kyoto: at the end of the day, global warming is everyone's business and business has already lost / Simon Willace -- The Kantian blueprint of climate control / Martin Schonfeld -- SECTION III: MECHANISMS TO MEET KYOTO: Carbon trading 101: an introduction to Kyoto's flexibility mechanisms / Graham Erion -- Flexible mechanisms: an analysis from a sustainable development perspective / Dire Tladi -- Beyond cap and trade: new mechanisms for economically limiting greenhouse gas emissions: the 80% solution / John S. Hoffman -- Carbon sequestration credits, trade mechanisms, and the Kyoto Protocol: the Canadian forestry experience carbon sequestration credits, trading mechanisms, and the potential role of the MNR / Atif Kubursi -- Making carbon and development objectives compatible under sink activities / Samy Hotimsky and Mike Robbins -- Power, motivation and cognition in the construction of climate policy: the case of tropical forestry / Margaret M. Skutsch and Hans Th. A. Bressers -- Quantifications of reduced emissions from deforestation in developing countries / Patrick E. Van Laake and Jerven J. Verplanke -- Reconsidering approaches for land use to mitigate climate change and to promote sustainable development / Arthur Riedacker -- High hopes and low hanging fruit: contradictions and struggles in South Africa's carbon market / Graham Erion -- Controlling compliance after Kyoto / Dirk Hanschel -- SECTION IV: INSTITUTIONAL AND POLICY RESPONSE: National climate-friendly governance proposals for developing countries / Swani Teixeira Coelho, Fernando Rei, Osvaldo Stella Martins, Oswaldo Lucon and Patricia Guardabassi -- Preventing dangerous climate change: adaptive decision-making and cooperative management in long-term climate policy / Jurgen Scheffran -- Adaptive governance in climate change: the cases of the international climate regime and water management in the Netherlands / Dave Huitema, Jerven Aerts, and Harro van Asselt -- Climate change policy in North America and the European Union / Paul Hamilton -- Canada and Kyoto: doing the right for the wrong reasons / Roberto P. Leone -- Quebec's Plan d'action 2006-2012 for climate change: Canadian, North American and the global context / Jean Mercier and Jean Crete -- Communicating climate science, with its inherent uncertainties, to policy makers / G.A. McBean.

This book reviews the developments and the changes in perceptions that have taken place in the ten years after the Kyoto Protocol was signed. It presents a compendium of wideranging articles on diverse aspects of global warming and climate change.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Climatic changes.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: QC981.8.C5 / G6638 2008

Dewey Class. No.: 363.738/74

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505 0 $a v. 1. SECTION I: INTRODUCTION: Introduction: Climate change and Kyoto Protocol / Velma I. Grover Butterfly lessons / Elizabeth Kolbert - Climate or development: a practitioner's view / Holger Liptow and Kathrin Birkel -- Climate conflicts extricating Post-Kyoto debates in science and policy / Saleem H. Ali -- The politics of equity: precedent for Post-Kyoto per capita schemes / Jon Rosales -- Response to climate change by non-annex I parties / Mohammad Reza Salamat -- Climate change and collective action: troubles in the transition to a post-oil economy -- Communication failures in climate policy: complementary action or abrupt climate change / Peter Read -- SECTION II: PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH TO CLIMATE CHANGE: Kyoto: at the end of the day, global warming is everyone's business and business has already lost / Simon Willace -- The Kantian blueprint of climate control / Martin Schonfeld -- SECTION III: MECHANISMS TO MEET KYOTO: Carbon trading 101: an introduction to Kyoto's flexibility mechanisms / Graham Erion -- Flexible mechanisms: an analysis from a sustainable development perspective / Dire Tladi -- Beyond cap and trade: new mechanisms for economically limiting greenhouse gas emissions: the 80% solution / John S. Hoffman -- Carbon sequestration credits, trade mechanisms, and the Kyoto Protocol: the Canadian forestry experience carbon sequestration credits, trading mechanisms, and the potential role of the MNR / Atif Kubursi -- Making carbon and development objectives compatible under sink activities / Samy Hotimsky and Mike Robbins -- Power, motivation and cognition in the construction of climate policy: the case of tropical forestry / Margaret M. Skutsch and Hans Th. A. Bressers -- Quantifications of reduced emissions from deforestation in developing countries / Patrick E. Van Laake and Jerven J. Verplanke -- Reconsidering approaches for land use to mitigate climate change and to promote sustainable development / Arthur Riedacker -- High hopes and low hanging fruit: contradictions and struggles in South Africa's carbon market / Graham Erion -- Controlling compliance after Kyoto / Dirk Hanschel -- SECTION IV: INSTITUTIONAL AND POLICY RESPONSE: National climate-friendly governance proposals for developing countries / Swani Teixeira Coelho, Fernando Rei, Osvaldo Stella Martins, Oswaldo Lucon and Patricia Guardabassi -- Preventing dangerous climate change: adaptive decision-making and cooperative management in long-term climate policy / Jurgen Scheffran -- Adaptive governance in climate change: the cases of the international climate regime and water management in the Netherlands / Dave Huitema, Jerven Aerts, and Harro van Asselt -- Climate change policy in North America and the European Union / Paul Hamilton -- Canada and Kyoto: doing the right for the wrong reasons / Roberto P. Leone -- Quebec's Plan d'action 2006-2012 for climate change: Canadian, North American and the global context / Jean Mercier and Jean Crete -- Communicating climate science, with its inherent uncertainties, to policy makers / G.A. McBean.
505 0 $a v. 2. SECTION V: LEGAL ISSUES: Petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights seeking relief from violations resulting from global warming caused by acts and omissions of the United States / Martin Wagner, Paul Crowley, and Donald M. Goldberg -- SECTION VI: IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND/OR KYOTO (NON) IMPLEMENTATION OF DIFFERENT REGIONS OR COUNTRIES: Responding to climate change and its impact on water resources: a case study from the Middle East / Fadia Daibes-Murad -- Differential vulnerability to climate change in Asia and challenges to adaptation within the Kyoto context / Lilibeth Acosta-Michlik, Lin Chunling and Ulka Kelkar -- Climate change and land degradation in China: challenges to soil conservation / Alexia Stokes, Yibing Chen, Jingjing Huang, and Chaowen Lin -- Climate change: ten years after Kyoto: an Australian perspective / Syed U. Hussainy and Santosh Kumar -- Obstacles to the adoption of a holistic environmental policy / Alcira Noemi Perlini Montiel -- Impact of global warming on Antarctica and how its flow on effect on Australian environment -- Syed U. Hussainy and Santosh Kumar -- SECTION VII: GENDER AND CLIMATE CHANGE: Solidarity in the greenhouse: gender equality and climate change / Ulrike Rohr and Minu Hemmati -- SECTION VIII: SAFE LANDING, PROTECTING THE CLIMATE FROM FUTURE GENERATIONS AND HEALTH: Climate, health and changing Canadian North / Christopher Furgal, Pierre Gosselin and Nicolas Vezeau -- Assessment of human health vulnerability in Cuba due to climate or weather variability and change / Paulo Lazaro, Ortiz Bulto, Luis Lecha Estela, Alina Rivero Valencia and Antonio Perez Rodriguez -- SECTION IX: BEYOND 2012: THE NEXT PHASE: Climate commitments: assessing the options / Daniel Bodansky -- Flexible options for future action / Cedric Philibert -- The 'Action' approach to cutting greenhouse gases: a better model for addressing global warming / Donald M. Goldberg -- Action targets: a new approach to international greenhouse gas controls / Kevin A. Baumert and Donald M. Goldberg -- Towards diffused climate change governance: a possible path to proceed after 2012 / Norichika Kanie -- Background on CDM and carbon trading / Graham Erion -- Land use and climate change in China with a focus on the Shaanxi Province in the Chinese Loess Plateau: lessons fro future climate politics / Madelene Ostwald and Deliang Chen -- SECTION X: KYOTO PROTOCOL: BALI AND BEYOND: Climate governance post Bali: signs of hope / Joyeeta Gupta -- Bali and beyond / Donald M. Goldberg -- Beyond Bali and Bush: the future of climate change policy / Joshua W. Busby -- From Kyoto to Copenhagen by way of Bali / Jean Crete -- Looking ahead from 2007 / G.A. McBean -- Post-2012 institutional architecture to address climate change: a proposal for effective governance / Norichika Kanie -- A gender-sensitive climate regime? / Ulrike Rohr and Minu Hemmati.
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