商品簡介
For this two-volume collection published in recognition of the tenth anniversary of the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions, Grover (International Network on Water, Environment and Health and United Nations U., Canada) has assembled a diverse collection of 51 articles addressing philosophical, social, and scientific issues of climate change and greenhouse gas emissions and institutional, policy, and legal issues connected to the Kyoto Protocol and other relevant initiatives. She has made effort an to include voices from all major players, albeit not entirely successful in her own estimation with regards to Russian, Indian, and Chinese points of view. A sampling of specific topics beyond the obvious includes the response to climate change by non-Annex I parties, communication failures in climate policy, carbon sequestration credits and trading mechanisms, making carbon and development objectives compatible under carbon sink activities, quantification of reduced emissions from deforestation in developing countries, adaptive governance in climate change, communicating climate science to policy makers, impact of climate change on water resources of the Middle East, climate change and land degradation in China, gender equality and climate change, human health vulnerability in Cuba due to climate variability and change, and future directions after the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
