'Climate and Conservation' presents case studies from around the world of leading-edge projects focused on climate change adaptation regional-scale endeavors where scientists, managers, and practitioners are working to protect biodiversity by protecting landscapes and seascapes …
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IntroductionTo the country fair --Ch. 1. The merry-go-round --Ch. 2. Denmark's Hubris --Ch. 3. Tragedy in Copenhagen --Ch. 4. The failing giant --Ch. 5. The Agassiz venture --Ch. 6. Axis of melt --Ch. 7. The Arctic's poisonous secret --Ch. 8. What oil? --Ch. 9. Proposition 23 an…
The Inquisition of Climate Science is the first book to comprehensively take on the climate science denial movement and the deniers themselves, exposing their lack of credentials, their extensive industry funding, and their failure to provide any alternative theory to explain th…
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Reconstructs negotiations of the Framework Convention on Climate Change at the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit.
Examining a series of droughts and the famines that they spawned in the last third of the 19th century, this text analyses this human tragedy. It covers its global history and lasting impacts on world economic development.
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"Mike Hulme is one of the most distinctive and recognisable voices speaking internationally about climate change in the academy, in public and in the media. This collection of his most popular, prominent and controversial articles, essays, speeches, interviews and reviews dating…
