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Sustainable Adaptation to Climate Change
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 92

Sustainable Adaptation to Climate Change

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-06-25
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book sets out how to ensure that adaptation efforts are socially and environmentally sustainable, contributing to poverty reduction as well as confronting the processes driving vulnerability. Over $100bn a year is pledged to help finance adaptation projects via the The Climate Adaptation Fund. These projects and their funding played a central role in the latest climate talks in Cancun, Mexico, ensuring that adaptation to climate change will be an international priority over the next few decades. Many existing adaptation projects are however, not environmentally or socially sustainable. Adaptation projects that focus on reducing specific climate sensitivities can, even if bringing benefi...

Index of Patents Issued from the United States Patent and Trademark Office
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1948

Index of Patents Issued from the United States Patent and Trademark Office

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1993
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Climate Change Mitigation and Development Cooperation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 277

Climate Change Mitigation and Development Cooperation

This is a companion book to Earthscan’s 2010 book Climate Change Adaptation and International Development. This book consists of summarised case studies looking at climate change mitigation specifically in Asia, the region producing the most greenhouse gas emissions. It examines international development from the perspective of climate change mitigation and looks at how international communities and donors support developing nations by funding, technical assistance and capacity building.

Climate Change Mitigation and International Development Cooperation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 277

Climate Change Mitigation and International Development Cooperation

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This is a companion book to Earthscan’s 2010 book Climate Change Adaptation and International Development. This book consists of summarised case studies looking at climate change mitigation specifically in Asia, the region producing the most greenhouse gas emissions. It examines international development from the perspective of climate change mitigation and looks at how international communities and donors support developing nations by funding, technical assistance and capacity building.

Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 834

Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Index of Patents Issued from the United States Patent Office
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 2300

Index of Patents Issued from the United States Patent Office

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1975
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 892

Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Sustainability in the Global City
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 425

Sustainability in the Global City

This volume is a vital contribution to conversations about urban sustainability, looking beyond the propaganda to explore its consequences for everyday life.

Economic and Environmental Impact of Free Trade in East and South East Asia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 219

Economic and Environmental Impact of Free Trade in East and South East Asia

In recent years, the East and South East Asian region has witnessed a rapid expansion of regional economic cooperation through bilateral and plurilateral free trade agreements. The current book attempts to comprehensively analyze the economic and environmental impacts of regional economic integration in East and South East Asia to the year 2020. This region has some of the fastest growing economies of the world. A global economic model was used to undertake the analysis. A rare feature of the book is the detailed environmental implications of the Regional Trade Agreements focusing on air, water, and waste pollution. Economic integration among the East and South East Asian region has been an ...

Japan's Environmental Politics and Governance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 355

Japan's Environmental Politics and Governance

Environmental issues stretch across scales of geographic space and require action at multiple levels of jurisdiction, including the individual level, community level, national level, and global level. Much of the scholarly work surrounding new approaches to environmental governance tends to overlook the role of sub-national governments, but this study examines the potential of sub-national participation to make policy choices which are congruent with global strategies and national mandates. This book investigates the emerging actors and new channels of Japan’s environmental governance which has been taking shape within an increasingly globalized international system. By analysing this impo...