climate change books

2007-02-26 Thread phaas
I am posting this request for a friend. Please let me know if you have any suggestions. I am looking for books that the deal with the regulation or politics of climate change or alternatively with 'agenda setting and climate change'. Still more generally with books that examine the role

Re: climate change books

2007-02-26 Thread Armin Rosencranz
Watch for CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENCE AND POLICY, edited by climate scientists Steve Schneider, Mike Mastrandrea and me, coming out this summer. I'll post an announcement here. armin rosencranz Quoting phaas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am posting this request for a friend. Please let me know if you

RE: climate change books

2007-02-26 Thread Wallace, Richard
This is a good reference: Stephen Schneider, Armin Rosencranz, and John O. Niles, eds. 2002. Climate Change Policy: A Survey. Island Press, Covelo, California. Cheers, Rich -- Richard L. Wallace, Ph.D. Chair, Environmental Studies Ursinus College 601 E. Main Street

RE: climate change books

2007-02-26 Thread Wil Burns
Hi Peter, You'll get a million suggestions, but one thing I like, and it's not a book, but a chapter, is Monty Hempel's chapter entitled Climate Policy on the Installment Plan, in Vig Craft's Environmental Policy, 6th edition. Dr. Wil Burns Senior Fellow, International Environmental Law

Re: climate change books

2007-02-26 Thread Raul Pacheco
On the topic of agenda-setting and climate change, the only article (not book) I've seen is: Lambright, W. H., S. A. Chjangnon, et al. (1996). Urban Reactions to the Global Warming Issue: Agenda-Setting in Toronto and Chicago. Climatic Change 34(3/4): 463-478. On the book front, I am not sure

Re: climate change books

2007-02-26 Thread rldavis
I don't know if anyone has mentioned this book yet (I haven't followed all of the posts as carefully as I should have) but here's a great book (clearly written, accessible, well documented, etc.) on the science of climate change by an eminent Australian scienctist Flannery, Tim. (2006) The

new book of interest: Moser/Dilling (eds.) CREATING A CLIMATE FOR CHANGE

2007-02-26 Thread Susi Moser
Dear colleagues and friends, Sorry for cross-posting, and for shameless self-promotion but I thought many of you may be interested in this book, just published by Cambridge University Press. For those of you, for whom the price tag is too high, we hope you will consider recommending the

Early Career Symposium for climate-change scientists - DISCCRS

2007-02-26 Thread Ronald Mitchell
All, This is a great program for those who have recently received their PhDs on climate change related topics. Please apply or urge your students or colleagues to do so. Sue Weiler and myself are co-PIs on the grant and note that Susi Moser (another GEPED person) will be one of the mentors.