This is a thought-provoking graduate-level textbook on global problems of environmental policy and economics, global warming, reforestation, and the greenhouse effect. It goes beyond the traditional climate and biology discussions associated with the climate change debate by including broader, interdisciplinary issues concerning, for example, alternatives to business as usual policies, economics and the green market, and future climatic and human change. Part I deals with the global commons, policy, and economics. Part II covers climatic and human change, including global warming, the greenhouse effect, reforestation, and energy policy. Part III discusses economic and greenhouse perceptions, freeing the green market, and the what the future holds. Includes bibliographic references and index.
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The value of this text lies in the multi-disciplinarity of approach. Few texts approach it and even fewer acknowledge the power of perception over reality. For this reason alone it is a useful addition to the literature.
-- TEGNews
the author has managed to produce a text which is very easy to read and which contains very little by way of political rhetoric or green banner waving. This is a well-arranged and well-balanced handholding guide through the climatic social and economic dimensions of climatic change.
-- International Journal of Climatology, 2000
This book demonstrates the sheer complexity of many environmental issues both scientifically and politically. It will provide invaluable material for a host of tutorials and essays.
-- Journal of Biological Education, 1998
-- TEGNews
the author has managed to produce a text which is very easy to read and which contains very little by way of political rhetoric or green banner waving. This is a well-arranged and well-balanced handholding guide through the climatic social and economic dimensions of climatic change.
-- International Journal of Climatology, 2000
This book demonstrates the sheer complexity of many environmental issues both scientifically and politically. It will provide invaluable material for a host of tutorials and essays.
-- Journal of Biological Education, 1998
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Our planet is changing, and it is currently changing as it has never done before in its entire history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
greenhouse considerations, greenhouse perspective, greenhouse costs, greenhouse measures, greenhouse policy, greenhouse implications, tidal schemes, greenhouse terms, greenhouse issue, greenhouse policies, carbon tax proposals, greenhouse impacts, low energy strategies, low energy strategy, greenhouse world, energy supply industries, fossil fuel levy, principal greenhouse gases, primary energy demand, anthropogenic climate change, anthropogenic warming, anthropogenic global warming, energy forecasts, fundamental economic problem, primary energy consumption Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Western Europe, Department of Energy, North America, World Conservation Strategy, Third World, North Atlantic, Brandt Report, Gulf War, Walter Marshall, National Power, North Sea, European Community, Framework Convention, Nuclear Electric, United Nations Conference, British Gas, Human Environment, Soviet Union, Brandt Commission, Department of Trade, European Union, Middle East, South America, The World Bank, White Paper New!
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greenhouse considerations, greenhouse perspective, greenhouse costs, greenhouse measures, greenhouse policy, greenhouse implications, tidal schemes, greenhouse terms, greenhouse issue, greenhouse policies, carbon tax proposals, greenhouse impacts, low energy strategies, low energy strategy, greenhouse world, energy supply industries, fossil fuel levy, principal greenhouse gases, primary energy demand, anthropogenic climate change, anthropogenic warming, anthropogenic global warming, energy forecasts, fundamental economic problem, primary energy consumption Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Western Europe, Department of Energy, North America, World Conservation Strategy, Third World, North Atlantic, Brandt Report, Gulf War, Walter Marshall, National Power, North Sea, European Community, Framework Convention, Nuclear Electric, United Nations Conference, British Gas, Human Environment, Soviet Union, Brandt Commission, Department of Trade, European Union, Middle East, South America, The World Bank, White Paper New!
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- State of the World 1986: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society by Lester R. Brown in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- State of the World 2003 by The Worldwatch Institute in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Our Common Future (Oxford Paperbacks) by World Commission On Environment and Development on page 15, and Back Matter
- An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope on page 273
- Thomas Edison (Inventors) by Paul Joseph on page 173
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