Author : Steve Rayner
Publisher :
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 29,25 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Science
ISBN :
This four-volume set assesses social science research relevant to global climate change from a wide-ranging interdisciplinary perspective. The volumes, available in either hard- or softcover, can be purchased individually or as a set.
Author : Jürgen Scheffran
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 869 pages
File Size : 15,93 MB
Release : 2012-05-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 3642286267
Severe droughts, damaging floods and mass migration: Climate change is becoming a focal point for security and conflict research and a challenge for the world’s governance structures. But how severe are the security risks and conflict potentials of climate change? Could global warming trigger a sequence of events leading to economic decline, social unrest and political instability? What are the causal relationships between resource scarcity and violent conflict? This book brings together international experts to explore these questions using in-depth case studies from around the world. Furthermore, the authors discuss strategies, institutions and cooperative approaches to stabilize the climate-society interaction.
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 12,95 MB
Release : 2017-06-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309454204
The social cost of carbon (SC-CO2) is an economic metric intended to provide a comprehensive estimate of the net damages - that is, the monetized value of the net impacts, both negative and positive - from the global climate change that results from a small (1-metric ton) increase in carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions. Under Executive Orders regarding regulatory impact analysis and as required by a court ruling, the U.S. government has since 2008 used estimates of the SC-CO2 in federal rulemakings to value the costs and benefits associated with changes in CO2 emissions. In 2010, the Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases (IWG) developed a methodology for estimating the SC-CO2 across a range of assumptions about future socioeconomic and physical earth systems. Valuing Climate Changes examines potential approaches, along with their relative merits and challenges, for a comprehensive update to the current methodology. This publication also recommends near- and longer-term research priorities to ensure that the SC- CO2 estimates reflect the best available science.
Author : Steve Rayner
Publisher :
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 16,35 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 9781574770490
Author : Steve Rayner
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 14,44 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN :
Author : Steve Rayner
Publisher :
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 22,70 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9781574770490
This is the first part of a four-volume work providing an international view of climate change which is designed to complement the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Second Assessment report. It covers the origins of human needs and wants and the scale of human activity.
Author : Andre Faaij
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 28,48 MB
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 1136564918
Societies need to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases by 80 per cent in order to counter the risks of climate change. This study envisions a climate neutral society - one where the output of polluting gases is minimised by social innovations set up in households, by local authorities, through developments in information and communications technologies and dematerialization, and through the shift towards product service systems and emissions trading. The work discusses the possibilities for steering and orchestrating this long-term transition towards a climate-friendly society, mapping paths through current dilemmas in climate policy and exploring the legal issues of making this transition.
Author : Steve Rayner
Publisher :
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 10,12 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN :
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,29 MB
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309278562
Climate change can reasonably be expected to increase the frequency and intensity of a variety of potentially disruptive environmental events-slowly at first, but then more quickly. It is prudent to expect to be surprised by the way in which these events may cascade, or have far-reaching effects. During the coming decade, certain climate-related events will produce consequences that exceed the capacity of the affected societies or global systems to manage; these may have global security implications. Although focused on events outside the United States, Climate and Social Stress: Implications for Security Analysis recommends a range of research and policy actions to create a whole-of-government approach to increasing understanding of complex and contingent connections between climate and security, and to inform choices about adapting to and reducing vulnerability to climate change.
Author : Elizabeth L. Malone
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 34,46 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1844078280
First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
