Confronting climate change : risks, implications, and responses / edited by Irving M. Mintzer ; assistant editors, Art Kleiner and Amber Leonard
- Bib ID:
- 365084
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- Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1992
- xiv, 382 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0521420911
- 0521421098
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: 1. Living in a warming world
- Part I. The Science of Climate Change: 2. Linkages between global warming, ozone depletion, acid deposition, and other aspects of global environmental change
- 3. Climate sensitivity, climate feedbacks and policy implications
- 4. Lessons from the ice cores: rapid climate changes during the last 160,000 years
- 5. Changes in climates of the past: lessons for the future
- 6. Indices and indicators of climate change: issues of detection, validation and climate sensitivity
- Part II. Impacts of Climate Change: 7. Future sea level rise: environmental and socio-political considerations
- 8. Effects of climate change on food production
- 9. Effects of climate change on shared fresh water resources
- 10. Effects of climate change on weather-related disasters
- 11. The effect of changing climate on population
- Part III. Energy Use and Technology: 12. The energy predicament in perspective
- 13. Electricity: technological opportunities and management challenges to achieving a low-emissions future
- 14. Transportation in developing nations: managing the institutional and technological transition to a low-emissions future
- Part IV. Economics and the Role of Institutions: 15. The economics of near-term reductions in greenhouse gases
- 16. 'Wait and see' versus 'No regrets': comparing the costs of economic strategies
- 17. International organizations in a warming world: building a global climate regime
- 18. Modifying the mandate of existing institutions: NGOs
- 19. Modifying the mandate of existing institutions: corporations
- 20. International trade, technology transfer, and climate change
- Part V. Equity Considerations and Future Negotiations: 21. Sharing the burden
- 22. Climate negotiations: the North South perspective
- 23. Shaping institutions to build a new partnership: lessons from the past and a vision for the future.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Climatic changes
- Other authors/contributors:
- Mintzer, Irving M
- Copyright:
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