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1. Aviation and Climate Change

   Lessons for European Policy

   By Alice Bows, Kevin Anderson, Paul Upham

   Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Geography and Environment

   It is generally accepted – the US administration excepted - that the emissions reduction targets agreed in the Kyoto Protocol are only the beginning of what needs to be achieved in international climate negotiations. While studies suggest that major emission reductions by industrialized countries...

   Published May 5th 2011 by Routledge
2. Water, Sovereignty and Borders in Asia and Oceania

   Edited by Devleena Ghosh, Heather Goodall, Stephanie Hemelryk Donald

   Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Geography and Environment

   This book restores water, both fresh and salt, to its central position in human endeavour, ecology and environment. Water access and the environmental and social problems of development are major issues of concern in this century. Drawing on water's many formations in debating human relationship...

   Published December 4th 2008 by Routledge
3. The Natural History of Earth

   Debating Long-Term Change in the Geosphere and Biosphere

   By Richard John Huggett

   Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Geography and Environment

   Using a broad selection of classic and current sources, The Natural History of the Earth probes selected discussions within biology, climatology, geology, and geomorphology and explores a selection of debates about Earth and life history, considering their origins and their present state-of-play....

   Published August 2nd 2006 by Routledge
4. Cities and Climate Change

   By Michelle Betsill, Harriet Bulkeley

   Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Geography and Environment

   Climate change is one of the most challenging issues of our time. As key sites in the production and management of emissions of greenhouse gases, cities will be crucial for the implementation of international agreements and national policies on climate change. This book provides a critical analysis...

   Published March 9th 2005 by Routledge
5. Himalayan Perceptions

   Environmental Change and the Well-Being of Mountain Peoples

   By Jack Ives

   Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Geography and Environment

   In the 1970s and 1980s many institutions, agencies and scholars believed that the Himalayan region was facing severe environmental disaster, due primarily to rapid growth in population that has caused extensive deforestation, which in turn has led to massive landsliding and soil erosion. This...

   Published August 4th 2004 by Routledge
6. Environmental Issues in the Mediterranean

   Processes and Perspectives from the Past and Present

   By John B. Thornes, John Wainwright

   Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Geography and Environment

   The Mediterranean has been subject to changing human settlement and land use patterns for millennia, and has a history of human exploitation in an inherently unstable landscape. Environmental Issues in the Mediterranean reviews both physical and social aspects of this region, in relation to its...

   Published September 24th 2003 by Routledge
7. History and Climate Change

   A Eurocentric Perspective

   By Professor Neville Brown, Neville Brown

   Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Geography and Environment

   History and Climate Change is a balanced and comprehensive overview of the links between climate and man's advance from early to modern times. It draws upon demographic, economic, urban, religious and military perspectives. It is a synthesis of the many historical and scientific theories, which...

   Published August 7th 2001 by Routledge