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Environmental futures
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ISBN: 9781119278320 Year: 2016 Publisher: Chichester : John Wiley & Sons Ltd.,

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Concerns about the exploitation of limited resources, optimum development trajectories, and climate change draw attention to the temporal horizons of our environment - Environmental Futures is a curated collection of essays that explores different ways of knowing the future and how these futures shape contemporary social worlds. * Includes a range of detailed case studies, from ice melting in Antarctica to coal mining in Bangladesh, flooding in Colombia to climate modelling in Egypt * Approaches prognosis as a cultural, political, and material process * Reveals the ways in which authority and expertise may be reinforced, circumscribed, or contested in the process of making a prediction and its aftermath * Offers novel insights on how and why futures come to be significant in the present


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Climat : une planète et des hommes : quelle influence sur le réchauffement climatique
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ISBN: 9782749119793 Year: 2011 Publisher: Paris : Cherche midi,

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The long thaw : how humans are changing the next 100,000 years of Earth's climate
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ISBN: 9780691136547 0691136548 Year: 2016 Publisher: Princeton University Press


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Overheated : the human cost of climate change
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ISBN: 9780199360727 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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The politics of climate change : a survey
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ISBN: 9781857434965 185743496X 9780203819234 9781136741685 9781136741722 9781136741739 9780415613569 Year: 2010 Publisher: London : Routledge,


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Changing Climates, Earth Systems and Society
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ISBN: 9789048187164 9789400733473 9789048187171 9789048187157 Year: 2010 Publisher: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands Imprint Springer

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The book covers state-of-the-art considerations on how climate change has and will deliver impacts on major globalised biophysical and societal themes that will affect the way the world functions. Human activity has resulted in changes to atmospheric chemistry and land cover, and caused serious decline in biodiversity. Modifying biogeochemical cycles leads to complex feedbacks. The future climate will have impact on food security and agriculture, water supply and quality, storm and cyclone frequency, shoreline stability, biodiversity and the future of biological resources. Earth scientists might be asked to forecast any potential abrupt or environmental surprises. A sound knowledge of the Earth System will improve the chances of achieving this, by developing climate models that will reduce the degree of uncertainty in regional climate prediction. This volume sets out a framework of research issues that show how the Earth sciences contribute to a better understanding of climate change and suggests where future research will best contribute to the wellbeing of society. The key topics discussed are: - climate change patterns over the last four glacial cycles; - the variability in climate over the last 1000 years; - impact that past climate change has had on societies; - the role of human activities in climate forcing; - the role of models in predicting future climate and how we can assess their merit; - the future and likely future climate trajectories.


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The climate casino : risk, uncertainty, and economics for a warming world
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ISBN: 9780300189773 9780300212648 030018977X 030021264X Publisher: Yale University Press

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Climate change is profoundly altering our world in ways that pose major risks to human societies and natural systems. We have entered the climate casino and are rolling the global-warming dice, warns the author. But there is still time to turn around and walk back out of the casino, and in this book he explains how. Bringing together all the important issues surrounding the climate debate, he describes the science, economics, and politics involved, and the steps necessary to reduce the perils of global warming. He discusses the problem from start to finish: from the beginning, where warming originates in our personal energy use, to the end, where societies employ regulations or taxes or subsidies to slow the emissions of gases responsible for climate change. He offers a new analysis of why earlier policies, such as the Kyoto Protocol, failed to slow carbon dioxide emissions, how new approaches can succeed, and which policy tools will most effectively reduce emissions. In short, he clarifies a defining problem of our times and lays out the next critical steps for slowing the trajectory of global warming.


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Post-Kyoto international climate policy : summary for policymakers
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ISBN: 9780521138000 0521138000 9780511627149 9780511651427 0511651422 0511627149 1107188636 9781107188631 0511592590 9780511592591 051159352X 051159545X Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

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The Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements seeks to identify key design elements of a scientifically sound, economically rational, and politically pragmatic post-2012 international policy architecture for global climate change. It draws upon leading thinkers from academia, private industry, government, and non-governmental organizations from around the world to construct a small set of promising policy frameworks and then disseminate and discuss the design elements and frameworks with decision-makers. The Project is directed by Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. For more information, see the Project's website: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/climate

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Climatic changes --- Global warming --- Environmental protection --- Environmental policy --- Greenhouse gas mitigation --- Climat --- Réchauffement de la Terre --- Environnement --- Gaz à effet de serre --- Government policy --- International cooperation. --- Effect of human beings on. --- Changements --- Politique gouvernementale --- Coopération internationale --- Protection --- Réduction --- Changements, Effets de l'homme sur les --- International cooperation --- Effect of human beings on --- #SBIB:327.7H42 --- #SBIB:35H434 --- AA / International- internationaal --- 355 --- Specifieke internationale organisaties en samenwerking: milieu --- Beleidssectoren: milieubeleid en ruimtelijke ordening --- Milieu --- Réchauffement de la Terre --- Gaz à effet de serre --- Coopération internationale --- Réduction --- Changes, Climatic --- Climate change --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Anthropogenic effects on climatic changes --- Human ecology --- Warming, Global --- Global temperature changes --- Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric --- Government policy&delete& --- Environmental aspects --- Changes in climate --- Climate change science --- Monograph --- Nature --- Global warming. --- Anthropogenic effects on nature --- Ecological footprint --- Human beings --- Anthropogenic soils --- Government policy. --- Global environmental change --- Business, Economy and Management --- Economics --- Climatic changes - Government policy - International cooperation --- Global warming - Government policy - International cooperation --- Environmental protection - International cooperation --- Environmental policy - International cooperation --- Greenhouse gas mitigation - International cooperation --- Climatic changes - Effect of human beings on


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Changing climates, earth systems and society
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ISBN: 9789048187164 9789048187157 904818715X 9786613002167 9048187168 1283002167 Year: 2010 Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer,

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The book covers state-of-the-art considerations on how climate change has and will deliver impacts on major globalised biophysical and societal themes that will affect the way the world functions. Human activity has resulted in changes to atmospheric chemistry and land cover, and caused serious decline in biodiversity. Modifying biogeochemical cycles leads to complex feedbacks. The future climate will have impact on food security and agriculture, water supply and quality, storm and cyclone frequency, shoreline stability, biodiversity and the future of biological resources. Earth scientists might be asked to forecast any potential abrupt or environmental surprises. A sound knowledge of the Earth System will improve the chances of achieving this, by developing climate models that will reduce the degree of uncertainty in regional climate prediction. This volume sets out a framework of research issues that show how the Earth sciences contribute to a better understanding of climate change and suggests where future research will best contribute to the wellbeing of society. The key topics discussed are: - climate change patterns over the last four glacial cycles; - the variability in climate over the last 1000 years; - impact that past climate change has had on societies; - the role of human activities in climate forcing; - the role of models in predicting future climate and how we can assess their merit; - the future and likely future climate trajectories.

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Climatic changes --- Human ecology --- Global environmental change --- Climat --- Ecologie humaine --- Changement global (Environnement) --- Environmental aspects --- Social aspects --- Effect of human beings on --- Changements --- Aspect de l'environnement --- Aspect social --- Changements, Effets de l'homme sur les --- Global environmental change. --- Human ecology. --- Anthropogener Einfluss. --- Humanökologie. --- Klimaänderung. --- Umweltveränderung. --- Effect of human beings on. --- Environmental aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Climatic changes -- Effect of human beings on. --- Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects. --- Climatic changes -- Social aspects. --- Meteorology & Climatology --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Climatic changes. --- EPUB-LIV-FT LIVECOLO LIVTERRE SPRINGER-B --- Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human beings --- Human environment --- Changes, Climatic --- Climate change --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Environment. --- Climate change. --- Atmospheric sciences. --- Physical geography. --- Climate Change. --- Environment, general. --- Atmospheric Sciences. --- Climate Change Management and Policy. --- Physical Geography. --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Nature --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Effect of environment on --- Changes in climate --- Climate change science --- Environmental sciences. --- Geography --- Environmental science --- Science --- Atmospheric sciences --- Earth sciences --- Atmosphere --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology


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Des climats et des hommes : [actes du colloque, Paris, Cité des sciences et de l'industrie, 19-21 novembre 2009]

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Climatic changes --- Human beings --- Human ecology --- Climat --- Homme --- Ecologie humaine --- History --- Effect of human beings on --- Effect of climate on --- Effect of environment on --- Changements --- Histoire --- Changements, Effets de l'homme sur les --- Influence du climat --- Influence de l'environnement --- Paléoclimatologie --- Établissements humains préhistoriques --- Effets du climat --- AA / International- internationaal --- 92 --- 94 --- 355 --- Geschiedenis. --- Aardrijkskunde en wetenschappelijke reizen. --- Milieu --- Géographie et voyages scientifiques. --- Geography and scientific voyages. --- 94 Aardrijkskunde en wetenschappelijke reizen. --- 94 Géographie et voyages scientifiques. --- 94 Geography and scientific voyages. --- Histoire. --- History. --- 92 Geschiedenis. --- 92 Histoire. --- 92 History. --- Homo sapiens --- Human race --- Humanity (Human beings) --- Humankind --- Humans --- Man --- Mankind --- People --- Hominids --- Persons --- Changes, Climatic --- Climate change --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Nature --- Environmental effects on human beings --- Nature and nurture --- Climatic factors&delete& --- Geschiedenis --- Aardrijkskunde en wetenschappelijke reizen --- Environmental aspects --- Social aspects --- Changes in climate --- Climate change science --- Effect of climate on. --- Paléoclimatologie. --- Effets du climat. --- Climatic factors --- Global environmental change --- Changements climatiques.

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