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The gap between global issues and personal behaviors: pro-environmental behaviors of citizens toward climate change in Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Lin, Shis-Ping - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 18 (2013) 6, pp. 773-783
Taiwan ranks 22nd worldwide in greenhouse gas emissions. One-third of these emissions come from the city of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. To mitigate global warming, the Taiwanese government and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) of environmental protection have promoted a series of energy conservation...
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On the value of temporary carbon: a comment on Kirschbaum
Fearnside, Philip - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 13 (2008) 3, pp. 207-210
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Emissions mitigation opportunities and practice in Northeastern United States
Moomaw, William; Johnston, Lucy - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 13 (2008) 5, pp. 615-642
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Accounting for time in Mitigating Global Warming through land-use change and forestry
Fearnside, Philip; Lashof, Daniel; Moura-Costa, Pedro - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 5 (2000) 3, pp. 239-270
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Monitoring needs to transform Amazonian forest maintenance into a global warming-mitigation option
Fearnside, Philip - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 2 (1997) 2, pp. 285-302
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Carbon benefits from Amazonian forest reserves: leakage accounting and the value of time
Fearnside, Philip - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 14 (2009) 6, pp. 557-567
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Carbon credit for hydroelectric dams as a source of greenhouse-gas emissions: the example of Brazil’s Teles Pires Dam
Fearnside, Philip - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 18 (2013) 5, pp. 691-699
Carbon credit is granted to hydroelectric dams under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) under the assumptions that (1) the dams would not be built without CDM funding and (2) over the 7 to 10-year duration of the...
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Public perception, knowledge and policy support for mitigation and adaption to Climate Change in Costa Rica: Comparisons with North American and European studies
Vignola, R.; Klinsky, S.; Tam, J.; McDaniels, T. - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 18 (2013) 3, pp. 303-323
preventing hydro-meteorological extremes related to water scarcity or excess. A majority of respondents engage in mitigation … behaviours largely for financial or contextual reasons. Finally, support for adaptation and mitigation policy responses is … protection increasing the water tariffs (52.5%). As discussions about mitigation and adaptation become increasingly common within …
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Mitigation and adaptation investments for desertification and climate change: an assessment of the socioeconomic return
Salinas, Carla; Mendieta, Jon - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 18 (2013) 5, pp. 659-672
. Many countries are making investments for the implementation of mitigation and adaptation strategies to combat …. The main goal of our paper is to assess the relation between the mitigation and adaptation investments and the socio …
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Reduction targets and abatement costs of developing countries resulting from global and developed countries’ reduction targets by 2050
Elzen, Michel; Beltran, Angelica; Hof, Andries; Ruijven, Bas - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 18 (2013) 4, pp. 491-512
The European Union (EU) has advocated an emission reduction target for developed countries of 80% to 95% below the 1990 level by 2050, and a global reduction target of 50%. Developing countries have resisted the inclusion of these targets in both the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change...
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