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Product Description: Global warming has surfaced as the political issue of the nineties. Most of the world's climate scientists concur that global warming has become an undeniable reality, over 60% of Americans believe that it is something to worry about, and more than 70% think that the United States should take a leading role in combating this challenge to the environment...read more
By Jeremy Leggett (editor)

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9780192861191 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 20, 1990, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Global warming has surfaced as the political issue of the nineties.

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Argues that the oil and coal industries are downplaying the effect of global warming and offers a look at the possible consequences on the planet if current scientific findings are ignored (view table of contents)

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9780201132953 | Perseus Books, April 1, 1997, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Argues that the oil and coal industries are downplaying the effect of global warming and offers a look at the possible consequences on the planet if current scientific findings are ignored

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Product Description: Robert Mendelsohn contends that the results of recent research on the impacts of climate change dramatically weaken the case for expensive, near-term abatement programs.

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9780844771328 | Aei Pr, August 1, 1999, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Robert Mendelsohn contends that the results of recent research on the impacts of climate change dramatically weaken the case for expensive, near-term abatement programs.

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Product Description: Even as the evidence of global warming mounts, the international response to this serious threat is coming unraveled. The United States has formally withdrawn from the 1997 Kyoto Protocol; other key nations are facing difficulty in meeting their Kyoto commitments; and developing countries face no limit on their emissions of the gases that cause global warming...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780691088709 | Princeton Univ Pr, February 26, 2001, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: Even as the evidence of global warming mounts, the international response to this serious threat is coming unraveled.

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Offers an inside look at the politics and science surrounding global warming; efforts by the oil, gas, and automobile industries to refute environmental research findings; and international attempts to pass environmental legislation. (view table of contents)

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9780415931014 | Routledge, April 1, 2001, cover price $170.00 | About this edition: Offers an inside look at the politics and science surrounding global warming; efforts by the oil, gas, and automobile industries to refute environmental research findings; and international attempts to pass environmental legislation.

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9780415931021 | Routledge, April 1, 2001, cover price $40.95 | About this edition: Offers an inside look at the politics and science surrounding global warming; efforts by the oil, gas, and automobile industries to refute environmental research findings; and international attempts to pass environmental legislation.

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Product Description: How can democracy facilitate an effective response to the problem of global warming? Barry Holden discusses this question from two perspectives. First he looks at the suitability in principle of democratic decision-making for generating responses to the problem: to what extent is popular decision making a viable method of dealing with the complex matter of global warming? Second, he looks at the issue of whether, or to what extent, democracy can exist on a supranational scale, since according to received ideas, democracy occurs only within states and has not been thought applicable to the international realm...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780826450715 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, August 1, 2002, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: How can democracy facilitate an effective response to the problem of global warming?

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9780826450708 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, August 1, 2002, cover price $49.95

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Product Description: In their pursuit of policies to combat global warming, countries will find that they may also receive additional benefits which are not directly associated with the primary aim. These ancillary benefits are likely to include, for example, a reduction in pollution as a result of carbon containment policies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781840649970 | Edward Elgar Pub, September 1, 2002, cover price $127.00 | About this edition: In their pursuit of policies to combat global warming, countries will find that they may also receive additional benefits which are not directly associated with the primary aim.

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9780521840897 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 31, 2005, cover price $264.99

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9780521600590 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 31, 2005, cover price $69.99

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Product Description: Book by Hillman, Mayer, Fawcett, Tina, Rajan, Sudhir Chella

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9780786296705 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, July 18, 2007), cover price $30.95 | About this edition: Book by Hillman, Mayer, Fawcett, Tina, Rajan, Sudhir Chella
9780312353551 | Thomas Dunne Books, April 3, 2007, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: An environmental survey that reveals how everyday people can make positive differences, the role that technology will play in saving the planet, and the importance of global carbon rationing.

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9781429988124 | 1 edition (St Martins Pr Thomas Dunne Books, April 17, 2007), cover price $10.99

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Product Description: "Global Warming: The Answer" takes as given that global warming is man-made and occurring with increasingly adverse effects. After a brief review of the carbon cycle (and how man is disturbing it), the book argues that global warming is an economic problem: Given the right prices, technical solutions will follow...read more

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9781434345080 | Authorhouse, November 30, 2007, cover price $14.49 | About this edition: "Global Warming: The Answer" takes as given that global warming is man-made and occurring with increasingly adverse effects.

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Product Description: Climate and weather patterns, and their changes over time, can be nearly impossible to predict. Yet thousands of political, social, and societal decisions have been made with the assumption that global climate change can be foretold...read more

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9781552639467, titled "Taken by Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy, and Politics of Global Warming" | Revised edition (Key Porter Books, May 28, 2008), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Climate and weather patterns, and their changes over time, can be nearly impossible to predict.

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Product Description: Millions of Americans are demanding that all levels of government—local, state, and federal—take immediate and effective action to fight climate change. But there’s a big problem. Hundreds of policy ideas are floating about, and many of them aren’t very good...read more
By Bill McKibben (foreword by)

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9781603580052 | Chelsea Green Pub Co, April 15, 2008, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Millions of Americans are demanding that all levels of government—local, state, and federal—take immediate and effective action to fight climate change.

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'Discusses the causes and effects of global climate change, as well as possible solutions to the problem'--Provided by publisher.
By George Monbiot and Matthew Prescott (contributor)

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9780896087798 | South End Pr, May 1, 2007, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: 'Discusses the causes and effects of global climate change, as well as possible solutions to the problem'--Provided by publisher.

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9780896087873 | Reprint edition (South End Pr, March 1, 2009), cover price $18.00 | also contains Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning

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Product Description: Presents opposing arguments on the subject of global warming and regulation, examining the causes of global warming, the seriousness of the threat, and the effectiveness of government regulation.
By Alan Marzilli (editor)

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9781604133325 | Chelsea House Pub, March 1, 2009, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Presents opposing arguments on the subject of global warming and regulation, examining the causes of global warming, the seriousness of the threat, and the effectiveness of government regulation.

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Argues that many of the elaborate actions being considered to stop global warming are too costly and will have little impact, and suggests that society's focus should be on such immediate concerns as fighting HIV/AIDS and maintaining a fresh water supply.

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9780307266927 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 4, 2007), cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Argues that many of the elaborate actions being considered to stop global warming are too costly and will have little impact, and suggests that society's focus should be on such immediate concerns as fighting HIV/AIDS and maintaining a fresh water supply.

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9780307741103 | Mti edition (Vintage Books, October 26, 2010), cover price $15.95
9780307386526 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, August 12, 2008), cover price $14.95

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Product Description: Global climate change is perceived to be one of the biggest challenges for international politics in the 21st century. This work seeks to fuse a global governance perspective together with different interpretive approaches, offering a novel way of looking at international climate politics...read more
By Chris Methmann (editor), Delf Rothe (editor) and Benjamin Stephan (editor)

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9780415521888 | Routledge, May 24, 2013, cover price $145.00

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9781138909304, titled "Interpretive Approaches to Global Climate Governance: (De)constructing the greenhouse" | Routledge, February 27, 2015, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Global climate change is perceived to be one of the biggest challenges for international politics in the 21st century.

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Product Description: The Handbook of Global Climate and Environment Policy presents an authoritative and comprehensive overview of global policy on climate and the environment. It combines the strengths of an interdisciplinary team of experts from around the world to explore current debates and the latest thinking in the search for global environmental solutions...read more

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9780470673249 | Blackwell Pub, May 13, 2013, cover price $200.95

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9781119250371 | Blackwell Pub, August 22, 2016, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: The Handbook of Global Climate and Environment Policy presents an authoritative and comprehensive overview of global policy on climate and the environment.

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