Global warming and climate change : ten years after Kyoto and still counting /: ten years after Kyoto and still counting. (2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Editor, Velma I. Grover.
• Editors: Grover, Velma I
• Contents: Front Cover; Foreword; Preface; Contents; Section I. Introduction; Chapter 1. Introduction: Climate Change and Kyoto Protocol; Chapter 2. Butterfly Lessons; Chapter 3. Climate or Development -- A Practitioner'sView*; Chapter 4. Climate Conflicts: Extricating Post-Kyoto Debates in Science and Policy; Chapter 5. The Politics of Equity: Precedent fo rPost-Kyoto Per Capita Schemes; Chapter 6. Response to Climate Change by Non-Annex I Parties; Chapter 7. Climate Change and Collective Action:Troubles in the Transition to a Post-Oil Economy. Chapter 8. Communication Failures in Climate Policy: Complementary Action on Abrupt Climate ChangeSection II. Philosophical Approach to Climate Change; Chapter 9: Kyoto: at the End of the Day, Global Warming is Everyone's Business and Business has Already Lost; Chapter 10. The Kantian Blueprint of Climate Control; Section III. Mechanisms to Meet Kyoto; Chapter 11. Carbon Trading 101: An Introduction to Kyoto's Flexibility Mechanisms; Chapter 12. Flexible Mechanisms: An Analysis from a Sustainable Development Perspective* Chapter 13. Beyond Cap and Trade: New Mechanisms for Economically Limiting Greenhouse Gas Emissions -- The 80% SolutionChapter 14. Carbon Sequestration Credits, Trading Mechanisms and the Kyoto Protocol: The Canadian Forestry Experience Carbon Sequestration Credits, Trading Mechanisms, and the Potential Role of the MNR; Chapter 15. Making Carbon and Development Objectives Compatible under Sink Activities; Chapter 16. Power, Motivation and Cognition in the Construction of Climate Policy:The Case of Tropical Forestry. Chapter 17. Quantification of Reduced Emissions from Deforestation in Developing CountriesChapter 18. Reconsidering Approaches for Land Use to Mitigate Climate Change and to Promote Sustainable Development; Chapter 19. High Hopes and Low Hanging Fruit: Contradictions and Struggles in South Africa's Carbon Market; Chapter 20. Controlling Compliance after Kyoto; Section IV. Institutional and Policy Response; Chapter 21. National Climate-friendly Governance Proposals for Developing Countries. Chapter 22. Preventing Dangerous Climate Change:Adaptive Decision-making and Cooperative Management in Long-term Climate PolicyChapter 23. Adaptive Governance in Climate ChangeThe Cases of the International Climate Change Regime and Water Management inThe Netherlands; Chapter 24. Climate Change Policy in North America and the European Union; Chapter 25. Canada and Kyoto: Doing the Right Thing for the Wrong Reasons; Chapter 26. Québec's Plan d'action 2006-2012 for Climate Change: Canadian, North American and Global Context.
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton, Florida : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Copyright Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (1, 174 pages, 26 unnumbered leaves of plates), illustrations (some color), maps
• Subjects: 363.738/74; Climatic changes; Climatic changes -- Government policy -- International cooperation; Climatic changes -- Effect of human beings on; Global warming -- Economic aspects; Global warming -- Social aspects; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781439843444; 1439843449
• Related ISBNs: 9781578085392
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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