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Climate change : federal policy approaches, perspectives & adaptation efforts /
Congress has, over the past three decades, authorized and funded federal programs to improve understanding of climate changes and their implications. Climate changes have potentially large economic and ecological consequences, both positive and negative, which depend on the rapidity, size, and predi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Nova Science Publishers,
2013.
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| Colección: | Climate change and its causes, effects, and prediction series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- CLIMATE CHANGE. FEDERAL POLICY APPROACHES, PERSPECTIVES AND ADAPTATION EFFORT
- CLIMATE CHANGE. FEDERAL POLICY APPROACHES, PERSPECTIVES AND ADAPTATION EFFORT
- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- Chapter 1: CLIMATE CHANGE: CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES AND POLICY TOOLS
- SUMMARY
- CHOICES AHEAD FOR POLICY MAKERS
- CONCEPTUAL POLICY APPROACHES
- THE POLICY TOOL BOX
- Chapter 2: U.S. GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY: EVOLVING VIEWSON COST, COMPETITIVENESS, AND COMPREHENSIVENESS
- SUMMARY
- INTRODUCTION: THE THREE CS
- UNFCCC: CONTAINING THE THREE CS WITH A VOLUNTARY COMMITMENTTHE U.S. AND KYOTO: THE THREE CS PREVENT MANDATORY REDUCTIONS
- COPENHAGEN: A COMPREHENSIVE BUT VOLUNTARY APPROACH TO THE THREE CS
- THE THREE-CS: RE-EVALUATING THE POLICY ASSUMPTIONS
- Chapter 3: CLIMATE CHANGE: VARIOUS ADAPTATION EFFORTS ARE UNDER WAY AT KEY NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AGENCIES
- WHY GAO DID THIS STUDY
- WHAT GAO FOUND
- ABBREVIATION
- BACKGROUND
- Four of the five agencies have developed climate change adaptation strategies and four of the five sites we visited have taken steps to address adaptationthe agencies have begun using several mechanisms to collaborate and have prepared national adaptation strategies and climate assessments
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