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Atlas of Climate Change: Responsibility and Obligation of Human Society by Wenjie Dong; Jianbin Huang; Yan Guo; Fumin Ren
This atlas and reference resource assembles the latest research findings on the responsibility and obligation of human society for historical climate change. It clearly and quantitatively estimates to what extent the developed and developing world are responsible for historical climate change with regard to anthropogenic carbon and sulfur emissions as well as global carbon trade, and so provides a potential tool to address the controversial issue of carbon emission reduction in international climate negotiations.
Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability
Covers environmental law and ethics, green business practices, regional sustainability issues, resource and ecosystem management, and more.
Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability: Ecosystem Management and Sustainability (Vol. 5)
Addresses topics such as biogeography, endangered species, native habitat buffers, and rain gardens.
Climate Change and the Future of Sustainability
Renewable resources such as wind, solar, and geothermal are often perceived as being the answer to the fossil fuel crisis. Ironically, however, climate change may also negatively impact on these energy sources. All forms of renewable energy are somewhat sensitive to climate variation. This new compendium looks at the impact of renewable resources on climate change from a variety of perspectives.
Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Environmental Change
Covers changes affecting the earth over geological, intermediate and short timescales, including pre-Quaternary, Quarternary, Holocene, historical and current environmental changes.
Human Rights and Climate Change
As the effects of climate change continue to be felt, appreciation of its future transformational impact on numerous areas of public law and policy is set to grow. Among these, human rights concerns are particularly acute. They include forced mass migration, increased disease incidence and strain on healthcare systems, threatened food and water security, the disappearance and degradation of shelter, land, livelihoods and cultures, and the threat of conflict.
Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources in Agriculture
Climate change and its impact on water resources in agriculture pose one of the biggest challenges for food, energy, fiber, and water security worldwide and, as a consequence, for society. This book presents a multidisciplinary approach towards climate change and water resources in agriculture and provides a comprehensive perspective about the core points central to this subject.
International Encyclopedia of Environmental Politics
Call Number: GE170 .I55 2002
The essential reference source to enable all those with an interest in the politics of the environment to explore topics in international environmental politics.
A Political Ecology of Women, Water, and Global Environmental Change
This edited volume explores how a feminist political ecology framework can bring fresh insights to the study of rural and urban livelihoods dependent on vulnerable rivers, lakes, watersheds, wetlands and coastal environments. Bringing together political ecologists and feminist scholars from multiple disciplines, the book develops solution-oriented advances to theory, policy and planning to tackle the complexity of these global environmental changes.

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