Global Warming and Climate Change (Hardcover)

Section I: Introduction?Introduction: Climate Change and Kyoto Protocol; Butterfly Lessons; Climate or Development: A Practitioner?s View; Climate Conflicts: Extricating Post-Kyoto Debates in Science and Policy; The Politics of Equity: Precedent for Post-Kyoto Per Capita Schemes; Response to Climate Change by Non-Annex I Parties; Climate Change and Collective Action: Troubles in the Transition to a Post-Oil Economy; Misunderstandings in Climate Policy: Complementary Action on Abrupt Climate Change ? Section II:?Philosophical Approach to Climate Change?Kyoto: At the End of the Day, Global Warming is Everyone?s Business and Business has Already Lost; The Kantian Blueprint of Climate Control ? Section III:?Mechanisms to Meet Kyoto?Carbon Trading 101: An Introduction to Kyoto?s Flexibility Mechanisms; Flexible Mechanisms: An Analysis from a Sustainable Development Perspective; Beyond Cap and Trade: New Mechanisms for Economically Limiting Greenhouse Gas Emissions: The 80% Solution; Carbon Sequestration Credits, Trading Mechanisms and the Kyto Protocol: The Canadian Forestry Experience Carbon Sequestration Credits, Trading Mechanisms, and the Potential Role of the MNR; Making Carbon and Development Objectives Compatible under Sink Activities; Power, Motivation and Cognition in the Construction of Climate Policy: The Case of Tropical Forestry; Quantification of Reduced Emissions from Deforestation in Developing Countries; Reconsidering Approaches for Land Use to Mitigate Climate Change and to Promote Sustainable Development; High Hopes and Low Hanging Fruit: Contradictions and Struggles in South Africa?s Carbon Market; Controlling Compliance after Kyoto ? Section IV:?Institutional and Policy Response?National Climate-friendly Governance Proposals for Developing Countries; Preventing Dangerous Climate Change: Adaptive Decision-making and Cooperative Management in Long-term Climate Policy; Adaptive Governance in Climate Change; Climate Change Policy in North America and the European Union; Canada and Kyoto: Doing the Right Thing for the Wrong Reasons; Qu?bec?s Plan d?action 2006?2012 for Climate Change: Canadian, North American and Global Context; Communicating Climate Science, with its Inherent Uncertainties, to Policy Makers ? Section V:?Legal Issues?Petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Seeking Relief from Violations Resulting from Global Warming Caused by Acts and Omissions of the United States ? Section VI: Impact of Climate Change and/or Kyoto (non)Implementation of Different Regions or Countries?Responding to Climate Change and its Impact on Water Resources: A Case Study from the Middle East; Differential Vulnerability to Climate Change in Asia and Challenges for Adaptation within the Kyoto Context; Climate Change and Land Degradation in China: Challenges for Soil Conservation; Climate Change: Ten Years After Kyoto: An Australian Perspective; Obstacles to the Adoption of a Holistic Environmental Policy; Impact of Global Warming on Antarctica and its Flow and the Effect on Australian Environment ? Section VII:?Gender and Climate Change?Solidarity in the Greenhouse: Gender Equality and Climate Change ? Section VIII:?Safe Landing: Protecting the Climate for Future Generations and Health?Climate, Health and the Changing Canadian North; Assessment of Human Health Vulnerability in Cuba due to Climate or Weather Variability and Change ? Section IX:?Beyond 2012: The Next Phase?Climate Commitments: Assessing the Options; Flexible Options for Future Action; The ?Action? Approach to Cutting Greenhouse Gases: A Better Model for Addressing Global Warming; Action Targets: A New Approach to International Greenhouse Gas Controls; Towards Diffused Climate Change Governance: A Possible Path to Proceed after 2012; Background on CDM and Carbon Trading; Land-use and Climate Change in China with a Focus on the Shaanxi Province in the Chinese Loess Plateau Lessons for Future Climate Politics ? Section X:?Kyoto Protocol: Bali and Beyond?Climate Governance Post Bali: Signs of Hope; Bali and Beyond; Beyond Bali and Bush: The Future of Climate Policy; From Kyoto to Copenhagen by Way of Bali; Looking ahead from 2007; Post-2012 Institutional Architecture to Address Climate Change: A Proposal for Effective Governance; A Gender-Sensitive Climate Regime? Climate Change: A Proposal for Effective Governance