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Policy Options for Stabilizing Global Climate
Author: Policy Options for Stabilizing Global Climate
Author: Energy Research Abstracts
Author: Martin Coal Gasification/ Combined Cycle Project, Florida Power & Light Company
Author: Ethics and Environmental Policy
Author: Frederick FerréPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820316574
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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In this collection of essays, leading environmentalists and philosophers explore the relationship between environmental ethics and policy, both in theory and practice. The first section of the book focuses on four approaches to change in ethical theory: ecological science, feminist metaphysics, Chinese philosophy, and holistic postmodern technology. In subsequent sections the contributors emphasize the need for nontraditional solutions and attempt to expand awareness of the most pressing practical problems. Among the topics discussed are the possibilities of real international cooperation, the inequitable but economically intractable issue of global gasses, the political and ethical challenges of city planning, and the growing evidence of fundamental inappropriateness in treating land as legal private property. This volume is based on essays presented in 1992 at the Second International Conference on Ethics and Environmental Policy. The conference was held in response to the increasing need for a new ethics that would counter the traditional human-centered, dominantly individualistic approach of the industrial world toward the environment.
The Potential Effects of Global Climate Change on the United States
Author: The Potential Effects of Global Climate Change on the United States
Author: Global Environmental Politics
Author: Gareth PorterPublisher: Westview Press
ISBN: 9780813310343
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Essays discuss environmental issues, interest groups, security and trade considerations, and future approaches to environmental policy
Expected Effects of Climatic Change on Marine Coastal Ecosystems
Author: J.J. BeukemaPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400920032
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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J. J. Beukema, w. J. Wolff & J. J. W. M. Brouns Man is changing the biosphere at an ever increasing Netherlands ministery of Housing, Physical Planning rate. Several of these man-made changes are on a and Health (represented by Dr. G. P. Hekstra), chaired worldwide scale, such as the increase in atmospheric by Dr. w. J. Wolff (Research Institute for Nature concentrations of several gases. In particular the Management) and housed by the Netherlands In ongoing increase of the concentration of at stitute for Sea Research (N. I. O. Z. , represented by Dr. mospheric carbon dioxide, by excessive burning of J. J. Beukema). fossil fuels and forest destruction, is well The written versions of the presentations by 23 par documented. By the year 2050, CO levels will ticipants have been brought together in these pro 2 almost certainly be twice the pre-industrial concen ceedings of the Workshop. trations and this is expected to have far-reaching consequences. Direct effects include higher rates of The first paper, by G. P. HEKSTRA, explains how plant production (also in agriculture). Indirect effects trace gases affect UV-B radiation, alkalinity of the might be less favourable: by the intensified sea, rate of photosynthesis, and greenhouse warm 'greenhouse process' (to which several other gases ing.
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