Highlights
Introduction to Modern Climate Change
Andrew Dessler, Texas A & M University
This textbook is tightly focused on the problem of anthropogenic climate change. It is unique among textbooks on climate change in that it combines an introduction of the science with an introduction to the non-science issues such as the economic and policy options.
252 pages
67 b/w illus. 11 colour illus. 6 maps 5 tables 120 exercises
Dimensions: 253 x 177 mm
Weight: 0.55kg
978-0-521-17315-5 Paperback £29.99
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Climate Policy after Copenhagen
The Role of Carbon Pricing
Karsten Neuhoff, Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - DIW Berlin
At the UN Climate Negotiations in Copenhagen, 117 heads of state concluded that low-carbon development is necessary in order to combat climate change. However, they also understood that transition to a low-carbon economy requires the implementation of a portfolio of policies and programs - a challenging endeavour for any nation.
296 pages
47 b/w illus. 5 tables
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 0.47kg
978-1-107-40141-9 Paperback £21.99
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Beyond Smoke and Mirrors
Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century
Burton Richter
Stanford University, California
Nobel Prize-winning scientist’s assessment of options for switching to sustainable energy provision to avert potentially disastrous consequences of climate change.
2010 228 x 152 mm 256pp 38 b/w illus. 22 tables
978-0-521-74781-3 Paperback c. £ 19.99
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Controlling Climate Change
Bert Metz
Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
Presents a cutting edge overview of tackling and adapting to climate change, written by a lead member of the IPCC.
2009 246 x 189 mm 352pp 167 b/w illus. 8 colour illus. 44 tables
978-0-521-74784-4 Paperback c. £ 29.99
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The Climate Crisis
An Introductory Guide to Climate Change
David Archer
University of Chicago
and Stefan Rahmstorf
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany
A concise and clear overview of the essential scientific information on climate change for students and the general reader.
2009 246 x 189 mm 272pp 6 tables
978-0-521-73255-0 Paperback 272pp c. £ 19.99
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Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States
Edited by Tom Karl
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Asheville, North Carolina
Jerry Melillo
Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
Thomas Peterson
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Asheville, North Carolin
and Susan Joy Hassol
Climate Communication, Basalt, Colorado
Summarizes the science of climate change and impacts on the United States, for the public and policymakers.
2009 279 x 215 mm 200pp 135 b/w illus.
978-0-521-14407-0 Paperback £ 30.00
Challenged by Carbon
The Oil Industry and Climate Change
Bryan Lovell
University of Cambridge
A unique new geological perspective on the oil industry’s impact on climate change and its potential role in stabilizing carbon emissions
"The author’s enthusiasm leaps out of every page and the result is a very readable, jargon-free and informative book on climate change. As a geologist he sets the present in the context of past changes. Anecdotes, personal reminiscences and clear science will captivate and inform the general reader and may well offer new insights to the specialist. A really good read." Lord Oxburgh, House of Lords Science and Technology Committee
2009 228 x 152 mm 208pp 66 b/w illus. 8 tables
978-0-521-14559-6 Paperback c. £ 19.99
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Post-Kyoto International Climate Policy
Implementing Architectures for Agreement
Edited by Joseph E. Aldy
Resources for the Future
and Robert N. Stavins
Harvard University, Massachusetts
The most authoritative analysis of the full range of options open for a world climate agreement to succeed the Kyoto Protocol.
"Addressing climate change is the defining challenge of our age. If we are to rise to this challenge, an ambitious and comprehensive global agreement must be reached urgently. This book provides an informative and timely analysis of the design options for such a global agreement and its subsequent implementation and will be an essential reference book to inform policy makers in their efforts to develop an architecture which is based on science, economically rational, and politically feasible.". Stavros Dimas, Commissioner for Environment, European Commission
2009 228 x 152 mm 912pp 73 b/w illus. 51 tables
978-0-521-13785-0 c. £ 75.00
978-0-521-12952-7 c. £ 40.00
Global Warming
The Complete Briefing
Fourth edition
John Houghton
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Houghton’s market-leading textbook, now in full colour and with the latest IPCC findings, is the definitive guide to climate change.
"the definitive scientific book on global warming by one of the few authors who is actually in a position to give a 'complete briefing." David Lorimer, Director, Scientific and Medical Network
2009 246 x 189 mm 456pp 60 b/w illus. 332 colour illus. 19 tables
978-0-521-70916-3 Paperback £ 24.99
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