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21. Global Environmental Change: An Atmospheric Perspective by John Horel, Jack Geisler | |
Paperback: 160
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(1996-11-18)
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Excellent technical introduction to global climate change |
22. British Environmental Policy and Europe: Politics and Policy in Transition (Global Environmental Change Series) | |
Paperback: 352
Pages
(1998-02-20)
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23. Global Environmental Change in Alpine Regions: Recognition, Impact, Adaptation and Mitigation (New Horizons in Environmental Economics) | |
Hardcover: 296
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(2002-12)
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Editorial Review Product Description The authors show that observed changes in natural phenomena, such asacidity and fish toxicity in high altitude lakes, clearly support thethesis on ongoing global change induced by humans. They then analyzethe manifold socio-economic impacts of global environmental changewhich are likely to be felt in various sectors and industriesincluding tourism, insurance and water cycle management. It is shownthat adaptation options though limited can be improved, such as innatural hazard management. Finally the authors evaluate the variousmitigation options available for policymakers in agriculture, energyproduction, transport and land use planning. |
24. The Solar Engine and Its Influence on Terrestrial Atmosphere and Climate (NATO ASI Series / Global Environmental Change) | |
Hardcover: 561
Pages
(1994-12-13)
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25. Global Environmental Change and Agriculture: Assessing the Impacts (New Horizons in Environmental Economics) | |
Hardcover: 354
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(1999-09)
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26. Global Environmental Change and Land Use | |
Paperback: 224
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(2010-11-02)
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Editorial Review Product Description This book highlights one of the most important aspects of global change - the interaction of land use and the climate system. In separate chapters the book treats modelling of land-use patterns, the effects on climate, the effect of land use on the global carbon cycle, hydrological aspects of land use, aspects of climate change on food availability in West Africa, and the spatial requirements of bioenergy plantations. The current collection of chapters provides a unique, integrated treatment of land use in the context of global change. Audience: This book should provide a stimulus for researchers and policy-makers alike to treat land use and land-use change in a multi-disciplinary manner. |
27. Atmospheric Ozone as a Climate Gas: General Circulation Model Simulations (NATO ASI Series / Global Environmental Change) | |
Hardcover: 461
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(1995-09-19)
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28. The Business of Greening (Routledge Research in Global Environmental Change) | |
Hardcover: 224
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(2000-10-17)
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29. Global Environmental Change: Modelling and Monitoring by Kirill Y. Kondratyev, Vladimir F. Krapivin, Gary W. Phillipe | |
Paperback: 316
Pages
(2010-11-02)
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30. A New Kind of Sharing: Why We Can't Ignore Global Environmental Change by June D. Hall, Arthur J. Hanson | |
Paperback: 280
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(1992-12)
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31. Global Environmental Change: Interactions of Science, Policy, and Politics in the United States by Robert G. Fleagle | |
Hardcover: 264
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(1994-09-29)
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Timely |
32. Ice in the Climate System (Nato a S I Series Series I, Global Environmental Change) by France) NATO Advanced Research Workshop Ice in the Climate System (1992 : Aussois | |
Hardcover: 673
Pages
(1994-11)
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33. Climate Change and World Food Security (NATO ASI Series / Global Environmental Change) | |
Hardcover: 662
Pages
(1995-12-20)
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34. Global Environmental Change (NATO ASI Series / Global Environmental Change) | |
Hardcover: 264
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(1991-05-03)
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35. Evaluation of Soil Organic Matter Models: Using Existing Long-Term Datasets (NATO ASI Series / Global Environmental Change) | |
Hardcover: 429
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(1996-02-22)
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36. Global Environmental Change: Webster's Timeline History, 1986 - 2007 by Icon Group International | |
Paperback: 28
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(2009-05-01)
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37. Working the Sahel (Global Environmental Change Series) by W.M. Adams, M.J. Mortimore | |
Hardcover: 240
Pages
(1999-08-03)
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Working the Sahel Working the Sahel is a tightly focused research monograph. The key question it poses is how individual skills are exercised in "strategic and tactical" ways by households in Northern Nigeria, and how resource endowments are managed under varying population densities.The starting point is that constraints on farming activities can be distilled into four categories; rainfall, bioproductivity of plants and soil, labor, and the availability of capital. Labor constraints in Nigeria and elsewhere have been generally been relaxed as population densities rise, permitting some combination of intensification of agricultural production in-situ, economic diversification out of agriculture, and circular migration. Adaptation - a term much critiqued by anthropologists - is used quite sensibly here to describe the reflexive, longer term restructuring of Sahelian rural systems in the response to these four constraints. Both flexibility and adaptability are demanded of Sahelian farmers. The core of the book concerns the day to day management of labor. In the four villages, high frequency time-budget observations by local researchers took place over four years, initially with the men, women and children of around 45 households. The study found that some labor inefficiencies are inevitable in dryland farming systems. Short cropping seasons in the drier villages concentrate labor demand; but since crop growth is dependent on rainfall, drought years can actually provoke labor surpluses. To maintain flexibility, therefore, labor is matched to resource endowments, and by switching between livelihood activities. Women and children make significant contributions to agricultural labor, that are greater in the drier and more extensive farming systems where Islamic seclusion is more relaxed. A picture emerges of biodiversity maintained by cultivation practices, and only localized episodes of degradation, largely driven by precipitation fluctuations. In their view, "Nothing could be further from the scenario of reckless resource degradation which has been put about by some academics and development agencies" (p193). The book also argues farmers have already developed pathways to "indigenous intensification" (p97) in the drylands, where denied access to fertilizer. Adaptive responses in the four villages include significant non-farm activities, since as Mortimore and Adams are at pains to stress, risk is spread through diversification. Impelled by economic factors, such as the instabilities generated by Nigeria's commodity booms and busts, and the recognition that animals offer investment opportunities, a pattern has emerged of "the more crops produced, the more livestock kept" (p132), in mixed farming systems. Private accumulation through petty trading in rural periodic markets is just part of a widely developed trading system, and markets also provide a wide range of social functions. Long distance migration, described much too briefly in the book, articulates with broader economic opportunity in regional hinterlands, and nationally. The authors personalize some of these labor tradeoffs and decision-making processes by profiling six farmers, by means of activity charts and brief personal histories. These profiles highlight how and when households deploy their labor. The book concludes by stressing that agricultural development initiatives in the Sahel fail when they are reductionist, and ignore diversity and variability. There is a dig here at farming systems research, which has underpinned agronomic development programs in the Sahel, for its focus on efficiency criteria. Dryland farmers are not profit or efficiency maximizers, since "..'efficiency' would leave no room for flexible maneuver" (p192). The message for future development interventions is a simple one; big schemes won't work, and "the most impressive stories of development are those where a need for multiple choices, to suit a range of smallholder families, has been met, implicitly or explicitly, in the type of interventions and opportunities affecting rural households." (p191). Politics receives too little discussion in the book, and is missing from the conceptual model used: it is only discussed as a starting point for the analysis of local farmer responses. Social and political conflict is downplayed, and not much is said about struggle and open resistance - and why such struggles (often gendered, or to do with resource access issues) might be necessary. |
38. The Role of the Stratosphere in Global Change (NATO ASI Series / Global Environmental Change) | |
Hardcover: 575
Pages
(1993-10-08)
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39. Energy and Water Cycles in the Climate System (Nato a S I Series Series I, Global Environmental Change) by Ehrhard Raschke | |
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(1993-04)
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40. Modelling Soil Erosion by Water (NATO ASI Series / Global Environmental Change) | |
Hardcover: 531
Pages
(1998-04-24)
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