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UNINA9910450928103321 |
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The economics of climate change / / edited by Anthony D. Owen and Nick Hanley |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004 |
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0-429-23347-7 |
1-134-44573-3 |
1-280-07725-5 |
0-203-49578-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (318 p.) |
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Routledge explorations in environmental economics ; ; 3 |
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OwenAnthony David |
HanleyNick |
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Environmental economics |
Climatic changes - Economic aspects |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of boxes; Acknowledgements; List of contributors; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Global warming: scientific modelling and its relationship to the economic dimensions of policy; From negotiation to implementation: the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Kyoto Protocol; Climate protection: what insight can econom ics offer?; The economics of the Kyoto Protocol; The role of economic instruments; Cost-Benefit Analysis and climate change; Economic modelling of global climate change |
The role of energy prices in global climate changeProject-based mechanisms: baselines, additionality and monitoring; Developing countries and climate change; The transition to renewable energy; Index |
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This impressive new collection couldn't come at a better time. With global warming now becoming physically noticeable and the Kyoto treaty stalling in its efforts to get the developed world on board, a look |
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at the economic factors of global warming is very much welcome. With contributions from distinguished authors and covering everything you need to know about global warming and its financial implications, this fascinating book will appeal across the political and scientific spectrum. |
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UNINA9910785647503321 |
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Autore |
Christensen Rob |
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The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics [[electronic resource] ] : The Personalities, Elections, and Events That Shaped Modern North Carolina |
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Chapel Hill, : The University of North Carolina Press, 2010 |
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1-4696-0628-3 |
0-8078-9963-1 |
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[2nd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (372 p.) |
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North Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950 |
North Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1951- |
Political culture -- North Carolina |
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Monografia |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Prologue; CHAPTER 1. The Simmons Machine; CHAPTER 2. The Shelby Dynasty; CHAPTER 3. Branchhead Boys; CHAPTER 4. The Last of the Conservative Democrats; CHAPTER 5. Dixie Dynamo; CHAPTER 6. Jessecrats; CHAPTER 7. Jim Hunt and the Democratic Revival; CHAPTER 8. Phoenix Rising; CHAPTER 9. A New Century; Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Index |
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How can a state be represented by Jesse Helms and John Edwards at the same time? Journalist Rob Christensen answers that question and navigates a century of political history in North Carolina, one of the most politically vibrant and competitive southern states, where neither conservatives nor liberals, Democrats nor Republicans, have been able to rest easy. It is this climate of competition and challenge, Christensen argues, that enabled North Carolina to rise from poverty in the nineteenth century to become a leader in research, education, and |
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banking in the twentieth. In this new pa |
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