The Amazon basin is a key component of the global carbon cycle. Not only is the old-growth rainforests in the basin huge carbon storage with about 120 billion metric tons of carbon in their biomass, but they also process annually twice the rate of global anthropogenic fossil fuel emissions...

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Policymakers' Informational Needs -- 3 Models and Analytical Approaches -- 4 Economic Considerations -- 5 Enhancing Analytical Capabilities -- Select Bibliography -- A Workshop Agenda -- B Speaker and Panelist Biographical Information.

Climate change will present institutional investors with both complex risks and dynamic opportunities in the years ahead. This situation has the potential to affect many sectors in radically different ways and to varying degrees over time. Institutional investors need to have a thorough...

Cover -- Marine Tourism, Climate Change, and Resilience in the Caribbean, Volume II: Recreation, Yachts, and Cruise Ships -- Contents -- Foreword and Acknowledgments -- Key Definitions -- List of Acronyms -- Map of the Caribbean -- CHAPTER 1: Introduction by Kreg Ettenger -- CHAPTER 2: Marine...

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Foreword -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Executive Summary -- 1. IntroductIon -- 1.1 A Low-Carbon Future Matters for Viet Nam -- 1.2 Viet Nam's Energy and Emissions Context -- 1.3 Current Climate Change and Green...

This volume explores the impact of Transnational Corporations (TNCs) on the environment of the Global South during this period of neoliberal globalization. It develops themes around transnational extractive activity; the impact of transnational capital on indigenous populations, and the role...

Ready for a dramatic lifestyle change? If mankind continues to deplete Earth's bounteous resources at an accelerating pace, drastic changes are inevitable. Exploring the links between politics and economics, globalization, peak oil, global warming, and disastrous weather, the author shows how...