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    2.798,95 kr.

    This book grows out of a 2001 workshop on "Emission of Chemical Species and Aerosols into the Atmosphere." The contents deal with inventories of emissions related to anthropogenic emissions or biomass burning; emissions from vegetation and soils; emissions of mineral and sea-salt aerosols; and emissions of sulphur compounds from the oceans.

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    1.666,95 kr.

    This volume provides an ample overview of state-of-the-art understanding of the multi-dimensional phenomenon of migration, in the characterisation of migration drivers, in environmental and agro-economic case studies and modelling issues as well as socio-political analyses.

  • - An Empirical Case Study of Science-Policy Interaction in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
    af T. Skodvin
    1.444,95 kr.

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    2.000,95 kr.

    It is much more sensible to adopt an integrative approach, which reveals that global climate change needs to be considered as a spider in a web, a triggering factor for a range of other, related problems - land use changes, water supply and demand, food supply, energy supply, human health, air pollution, etc.

  • af Jerry McBeath & Jenifer Huang McBeath
    1.642,95 kr.

    Keywords Food system * Food security * Food production regions * Environmental stressors (Population growth * Natural disasters * Insect pests and Plant diseases * Deforestation * Climate change) * Irrigation systems * Flood control * Grand Canal 1.

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    1.444,95 kr.

    The aim of Hydrological, Socioeconomic and Ecological Impacts of the North Atlantic Oscillation in the Mediterranean Region, is to serve as an updated reference text that covers the wide range of evidences on the NAO impacts in the Mediterranean regions and from a multidisciplinary perspective.

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    1.648,95 kr.

    Our views and understanding of variations in climate, geomorphological processes and the interrelationships that exist between climatic changes and land surface changes, both now and in the past, have developed greatly over the last decade.

  • - Health and Climate
     
    2.222,95 kr.

    Results presented at the Wengen conference make clear that the science and art of integrating climate knowledge into the control of climate sensitive diseases on a year to year time frame, as well as careful assessments of the potential impacts of climate change on health outcomes over longer time frames, is advancing rapidly.

  • - Adapting Agriculture to a Warmer World
     
    1.488,95 kr.

    This book explores the different methodologies and data used to understand climate's effect on food security. It explains the nature of the climate threat, ways that crops and farmers might respond, and the potential role for public and private investment.

  • - Adapting Agriculture to a Warmer World
     
    1.108,95 kr.

    This book explores the different methodologies and data used to understand climate's effect on food security. It explains the nature of the climate threat, ways that crops and farmers might respond, and the potential role for public and private investment.

  • af Jonathan Rosenberg & Jerry McBeath
    1.954,95 kr.

    This book assesses and compares the political response of nations to the environment. environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs); Green parties and environmental movements; It compares and contrasts rich and poor nations, large and small countries, liberal democracies and authoritarian states.

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    2.778,95 kr.

    The Second International Symposium on the East African Lakes was held from 10-15 January 2000 at Club Makokola on the southern shore of Lake Malawi.

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    1.666,95 kr.

    This volume provides an ample overview of state-of-the-art understanding of the multi-dimensional phenomenon of migration, in the characterisation of migration drivers, in environmental and agro-economic case studies and modelling issues as well as socio-political analyses.

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    2.000,95 kr.

    Focuses on climate change issues in Australia, New Zealand and the small island nations in the South Pacific, as the world struggles to formulate responses and cope with possible impacts of global warming.

  • - An Empirical Case Study of Science-Policy Interaction in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
    af T. Skodvin
    1.444,95 kr.

    Research input constitutes a key component in the development of international environmental regime formation. This book provides an empirical study of science-policy interaction in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from its establishment in 1988, to the provision of the Second IPCC Assessment Report in 1995.

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    1.271,95 kr.

    This book is the result of a team of approximately 100 scientists and resource managers who worked together for two years to understand the effects of climatic variability and change on water resources, fisheries, forest vegetation, non-forest vegetation, wildlife, recreation, cultural resources and ecosystem services.

  • - Transboundary Challenges in the Americas
     
    2.000,95 kr.

    Climate and Water: Transboundary Challenges in the Americas explores some of the ways that climate, hydrology, and water resource management converge at the borders between jurisdictions and countries in the western Hemisphere.

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    1.844,95 kr.

    This volume provides an up to date overview of climate variability during the 20th century in the context of natural and anthropogenic variability. It compiles a number of contributions to a workshop held in Gwatt, Switzerland, in July 2006 dealing with different aspects of climate change, variability, and extremes during the past 100 years.

  • - Energy, Economics and the Environment in 21st Century Mexico
    af Maria Eugenia Ibarraran & Roy Boyd
    1.101,95 kr.

    The book focuses on the impact of energy policies on fossil fuel use, environmental quality, and economic growth in Mexico for the next 20 years. It also develops a Computable General Equilibrium model of the Mexican economy, paying attention to the energy sector and its links with other aspects of the aggregate economy.

  • af Ferenc L. Toth
    2.624,95 kr.

    Fossil fuels will remain the backbone of the global energy economy for the foreseeable future. With the pressing need to mitigate climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the fossil energy industry is exploring the possibility of carbon dioxide disposal in geological media.

  • af Alfio V. Parisi, Jeff Sabburg & Michael G. Kimlin
    1.079,95 kr.

    This textbook provides a comprehensive understanding of the scattered and filtered solar UV environment, the techniques to measure this radiation and the resulting UV exposures to humans. The book aims to quantify, understand and provide information on the effects of filtered and scattered UV light.

  • af Jerry McBeath & Jenifer Huang McBeath
    1.692,95 kr.

    Keywords Food system * Food security * Food production regions * Environmental stressors (Population growth * Natural disasters * Insect pests and Plant diseases * Deforestation * Climate change) * Irrigation systems * Flood control * Grand Canal 1.

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    2.291,95 kr.

    Avoiding potentially catastrophic impacts of global warming means changing the current 3% CO2 global emission growth rate to a 1 - 3% declining rate. This book assesses the mitigation challenge, and considers ways to protect the planet from climate change.

  • - Sustainable Energy Planning and Implementation in Small and Medium Sized Communities
     
    2.521,95 kr.

    The European Commission therefore launched in 2008 a new initiative, the Covenant of Mayors, which brings together a network of European mayors in a voluntary effort to go beyond the European Union's already ambitious targets.

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    2.000,95 kr.

    This volume includes many of the papers presented at the workshop, but is also intended to act as a contribution to the state of knowledge on the int- relationships between biomass burning and climate change.

  • - Handbook for Greenhouse Gas Inventory, Carbon Mitigation and Roundwood Production Projects
    af N.H. Ravindranath & Madelene Ostwald
    2.124,95 kr.

    Carbon Inventory Methods Handbook fills the need for a handbook that provides guidelines and methods required for carbon inventory.

  • af Bangalore) Ravindranath, N.H. (Indian Institute of Science & Jayant Sathaye
    1.110,95 - 1.333,95 kr.

    Among global environmental issues, climate change has received the largest attention of national and global policy makers, researchers, industry, multilateral banks and NGOs.

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    1.663,95 kr.

    Because most of the region is on average only a few meters above sea level and because any increase of sea level will change the complex relationship between tides and down-river water flow, the Mekong Delta is one of the areas in the world most vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

  • - Physical, Social and Political Perspectives
     
    1.673,95 kr.

    To compound this vulnerability, there remains large knowledge gaps on African climate, manifestations of future climate change and variability for the region and the associated problems of climate change impacts.

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