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Meltdown climate change, natural disasters, and other catastrophes : fears and concerns of the future /

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Bats in the Anthropocene: Conservation of Bats in a Changing World

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Climate change, sustainable development, and human security : a comparative analysis /

Table of Contents: “…Singh -- Climate Change and its Impacts : Domestic and International Responses of Japan / Cheng Fang-Ting -- Domestic Debates on Climate in Russia / Leonid Grigoryev, Igor Makarov, Alla Salmina -- Climate Change, Its Effects, and the Political Economy of Adaptation and Mitigation : Turkey and the Eastern Mediterranean Region / Paul A. …”
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The Interconnected Arctic — UArctic Congress 2016

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1 Mysteries of the geological history of the Cenozoic Arctic Ocean sea ice cover -- Chapter 2 Response of Arctic alpine biota to climate change -evidence from Polar Urals GLORIA summits.- Chapter 3 The features of natural and artificial recovery in quarries of the forest-tundra zone of Western Siberia -- Chapter 4 The concept of hierarchical structure of large marine ecosystems in the zoning of Russian Arctic shelf seas -- Chapter 5 Changing climate and outbreaks of forest pest insects in a cold northern country, Finland.- Chapter 6 Wood-based energy as a strategy for climate change mitigation in the Arctic –Perspectives on assessment of climate impacts and resource efficiency with Life Cycle Assessment -- Chapter 7. …”
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Global capitalism and climate change the need for an alternative world system / by Baer, Hans A., 1944-

Table of Contents: “…The impact of climate change on the environment and human societies -- The capitalist world system and its contradictions -- The capitalist treadmill of production and consumption as a generator of greenhouse gas emissions -- The inadequacies of existing climate regimes for mitigating climate change -- Why green capitalism is insufficient to mitigate climate change -- A vision of an alternative world system : toward global democracy based on social justice and environmental sustainability -- Toward an ecological revolution : progressive transitional reforms -- Grass-roots responses to the climate change : internationally, nationally, and locally -- Conclusion.…”
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Enabling Asia to Stabilise the Climate

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Social dimensions of climate change equity and vulnerability in a warming world /

Table of Contents: “…Equity and vulnerability in a warming world : introduction and overview / Robin Mearns and Andrew Norton -- Vulnerability does not fall from the sky : toward multiscale, pro-poor climate policy / Jesse Ribot -- Implications of climate change for armed conflict / Halvard Buhaug, Nils Petter Gleditsch, and Ole Magnus Theisen -- Climate change and migration : emerging patterns in the developing world / Clionadh Raleigh and Lisa Jordan -- The gender dimensions of poverty and climate change adaptation / Justina Demetriades and Emily Esplen -- The role of indigenous knowledge in crafting adaptation and mitigation strategies for climate change in Latin America / Jakob Kronik and Dorte Verner -- Local institutions and adaptation to climate change / Arun Agrawal -- Climate change for agrarian societies in drylands : implications and future pathways / Simon Anderson, John Morton, and Camilla Toulmin -- Toward pro-poor adaptation to climate change in the urban centers of low- and middle-income countries / Caroline Moser and David Satterthwaite -- Social policies for adaptation to climate change / Rasmus Heltberg, Paul Bennett Siegel, and Steen Lau Jorgensen -- Seeing people through the trees and the carbon : mitigating and adapting to climate change without undermining rights and livelihoods / Andy White ... …”
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Gender, development, and climate change /

Table of Contents: “…[et al.] -- Gendering responses to El Niño in rural Peru / Rosa Rivero Reyes -- The Noel Kempff project in Bolivia: gender, power, and decision-making in climate mitigation / Emily Boyd -- Reducing risk and vulnerability to climate change in India: the capabilities approach / Marlene Roy and Henry David Venema -- Promoting the role of women in sustainable energy development in Africa: networking and capacity-building / Tieho Makhabane -- Transforming power relationships: building capacity for ecological security / Mary Jo Larson -- Resources / compiled by Ruth Evans.…”

Floods in a changing climate by Simonovi�c, Slobodan P.

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Floods in a changing climate by Teegavarapu, Ramesh S. V., 1970-

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The collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the struggle to slow global warming by Victor, David G.

Subjects: “…United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992). Protocols, etc. 1997 Dec. 11.…”
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Climate change, ecology and systematics

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Transportation in a climate-constrained world

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La economía de la iniciativa Yasuní-ITT cambio climático como si importara la termodinámica / by Vogel, Joseph Henry

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Thinking Like a Climate : Governing a City in Times of Environmental Change / by Knox, Hannah, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Thinking Like a Climate -- Contact Zones -- Climate Change in Manchester: An Origin Story -- 41% and the Problem of Proportion -- Giving Climate a Body -- The Carbon Life of Buildings -- Footprints and Traces, or Learning to Think like a Climate -- Footprints, Objects, and the Endlessness of Relations -- Mitigation to Adaptation -- An Irrelevant Apocalypse: Futures, Models, and Scenarios -- Cities, Mayors, and Climate Change -- Stuck in Strategies -- Rematerializing Politics -- Test Houses and Vernacular Engineers -- Activist Devices and the Art of Politics -- Symptoms, Diagnoses, and the Politics of the Hack -- Conclusion: "Going Native" in the Anthropocene.…”
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Nature-Based Solutions to Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Areas Linkages between Science, Policy and Practice /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Section I Scientific evidence for Nature-based solutions to climate change adaptation and mitigation in urban areas -- Section II Practical implementation and needs for a transition towards Nature-based solutions in cities -- Section III Nature-based solutions and social-environmental justice in cities -- Section IV Governance Implications and Economic Viability of Nature-based solutions -- Conclusions.…”
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Inter-linkages The Kyoto Protocol and the international trade and investment regimes /

Subjects: “…United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992). Protocols, etc. 1997 Dec. 11.…”
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Crucial issues in climate change and the Kyoto Protocol Asia and the world /

Table of Contents: “…Protecting forests to mitigate global climate change /…”
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The new carbon economy

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Convenient solutions to an inconvenient truth ecosystem-based approaches to climate change.

Table of Contents: “…The world bank and biodiversity conservation: a contribution to action for climate change -- Natural ecosystems and mitigation -- Ecosystem-based adaptation: reducing vulnerability -- Biodiversity conservation and food, water, and livelihood security: emerging issues -- Implementing ecosystem-based approaches to climate change.…”
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