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It is all but certain that the next century will be hotter than any we've experienced before. Even if we get serious about fighting climate change, it's clear that we will need to adapt to the changes already underway in our environment. This book considers how individual economic choices in response to climate change will transform the larger economy.
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"International Trade and Climate Change: Economic, Legal, and Institutional Perspectives provides a comprehensive look, from economic, legal, and institutional perspectives, at the intersections and potential synergies between climate change objectives and international trade obligations. The book identifies the key issues at stake, where they mesh and where they do not, as well as opportunities for aligning development and energy policies in ways...
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The fastest dwindling and most valuable resource in the world today is not oil, it is water, clean, safe, fresh water. Clean, fresh drinking water is essential to human and animal life. It is equally important to the world economy: it functions as a universal solvent, makes possible industrial cooling and transportation, and is necessary for all kinds of agriculture. The author, CEO of Veolia Water, takes us on a tour of the world's waters, of our...
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In the first decade of this century, for the first time in history, the majority of the planet's population resided in cities. We are an urban planet. If ongoing changes in climate are to have an impact on the human species, most of these impacts will play out in cities. This fact was brought into full relief in the summer of 2003, when more than 70,000 residents of Europe perished in one of the most prolonged and intense heat waves in human history....
6) A newer world: politics, money, technology, and what's really being done to solve the climate crisis
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This is an environmentalist's exploration of how we are bringing ourselves to the beginning of the end of the climate crisis and to the verge of sustainability. It is the story of the developments, trends, and visionary people that are, in many ways, mitigating the climate crisis and turning sustainable development into reality, not just a grand concept. Here the author explores the advances in business and finance, politics, design, science, and...
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Publisher's description -- Concern about greenhouse gases and the warming of the planet is reaching a crescendo never before experienced. In the past, crises that have threatened the lives and livelihoods of huge portions of the populace have spurred entrepreneurs to come up with solutions that eventually tempered the crisis, improved the quality of life, and laid the groundwork for future growth and development. As consumers demand planet-friendly...
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"This book follows the Kyoto Protocol since the time of its drafting in 1997 to analyze its viability as an environmental treaty. Dana Fisher uses a combination of substantive interview data and country case studies of Japan, the Netherlands, and the United States to explain the complexity of the domestic and international debates taking place around the protocol. With its blend of quantitative and qualitative data, this study presents evidence that...
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"After describing the evolution of U.S. climate change policy and the influence of neoliberal economic thought, the book takes up the question of what ideas might supersede the neoliberal reliance on cost-benefit analysis, overly broad market-based mechanisms, and rejection of precautionary approaches and environmental justice concerns. With a new administration in Washington, the need for a new policy framework is acute; this book supplies a timely...
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Global climate change disproportionately affects rural people and Indigenous groups, but their rights, knowledge, and interests concerning it are generally unacknowledged. Shifts in precipitation, cloud cover, temperature, and other climatic patterns alter their livelihood pursuits and cultural landscapes, accentuating their existing social and economic marginalization. This book argues that planners and researchers of climate change mitigation and...
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Deniers of climate change sometimes quip that claims about global warming are more about political science than climate science. They are wrong on the science, but may be right with respect to its political implications. A hotter world, writes the author, will bring unprecedented migrations, famine, war, and disease. It will be a social and political disaster of the first order. In this book the author takes climate change out of the realm of scientific...
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"Few public policy issues seem as hopeless as climate change. A gridlocked U.S. national government has abandoned the Kyoto process while evidence of significant climate change mounts. Washington, D.C., is not the only place where public policy is made, however, and inertia is not the story of this book. Many U.S. states have developed innovative programs to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Statehouse and Greenhouse examines this evolving policy...
15) Who will pay?: coping with aging societies, climate change, and other long-term fiscal challenges
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At the outset of this 21st century, policymakers confront a number of profound developments, in their societies and in the natural world, whose significance is certain to increase over the next several decades. Some can be seen as dangers, some as opportunities, and some as both. One of the most important of theses developments is demographic in nature. The proportion of the elderly in the populations of many industrial countries and some emerging...
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"Climate and Society presents from a transdisciplinary view, climate and its changes, impact and perception. The history of climate and its different approaches over time - which are anthropocentric and more system-oriented, academic and application-driven - are reviewed, as are the possibilities of managing climate, in particular by steering the greenhouse gas emissions. Most importantly, the concepts of climate as a resource for societies are discussed...
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"For the people of Kivalina, Alaska, the price of further climate change denial could be the complete devastation of their lives and culture. Their village must be relocated to survive, but neither the fossil fuel giants or the U.s. government are willing to take full responsibility."--Page 4 of cover.
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"The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core "free market" ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems. In short, either we embrace radical change ourselves or radical changes will be visited upon our physical world. The status quo is no longer an option. In This Changes...
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