Irving Mintzer

Confronting Climate Change

Herausgeber: Irving M., Mintzer; Mintzer, Irving M.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Confronting Climate Change is a guide to the risks, dilemmas and opportunities of the emerging political era in which the impacts of a prospective global warming could affect all regional, public and even individual decisions.This book reviews some of the most important impacts of global climate change--including effects on sea-level, food production, internationally shared fresh water resources and weather related disasters--and analyses the potential effects of rapid climate change on geopolitical relationships.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 297mm x 210mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 1034g
• ISBN-13: 9780521421096
• ISBN-10: 0521421098
• Artikelnr.: 21828758

Inhaltsangabe

1. Living in a warming world; Part I. The Science of Climate Change: 2.
Linkages between global warming, ozone depletion, acid deposition, and
other aspects of global environmental change; 3. Climate sensitivity,
climate feedbacks and policy implications; 4. Lessons from the ice cores:
rapid climate changes during the last 160,000 years; 5. Changes in climates
of the past: lessons for the future; 6. Indices and indicators of climate
change: issues of detection, validation and climate sensitivity; Part II.
Impacts of Climate Change: 7. Future sea level rise: environmental and
socio-political considerations; 8. Effects of climate change on food
production; 9. Effects of climate change on shared fresh water resources;
10. Effects of climate change on weather-related disasters; 11. The effect
of changing climate on population; Part III. Energy Use and Technology: 12.
The energy predicament in perspective; 13. Electricity: technological
opportunities and management challenges to achieving a low-emissions
future; 14. Transportation in developing nations: managing the
institutional and technological transition to a low-emissions future; Part
IV. Economics and the Role of Institutions: 15. The economics of near-term
reductions in greenhouse gases; 16. 'Wait and see' versus 'No regrets':
comparing the costs of economic strategies; 17. International organizations
in a warming world: building a global climate regime; 18. Modifying the
mandate of existing institutions: NGOs; 19. Modifying the mandate of
existing institutions: corporations; 20. International trade, technology
transfer, and climate change; Part V. Equity Considerations and Future
Negotiations: 21. Sharing the burden; 22. Climate negotiations: the North
South perspective; 23. Shaping institutions to build a new partnership:
lessons from the past and a vision for the future.