Global warming and climate change : ten years after Kyoto and still counting / editor, Velma I. Grover.

v.1 and v.2

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section I: Introduction; Introduction: Climate Change and Kyoto Protocol; - - Butterfly Lessons; Climate or Development - A Practitioner's View; - - Climate Conflicts: Extricating Post-Kyoto Debates in Science and Policy; - -The Politics of Equity: Precedent for Post-Kyoto Per Capita Schemes; - - Response to Climate Change by Non-Annex I Parties; - - Climate Change and Collective Action: Troubles in the Transition to a Post-Oil Economy; - -Misunderstandings in Climate Policy: Complementary Action on Abrupt Climate Change; - - Section II: Philosophical Approach to Climate Change; - -Kyoto: At the End of the Day, Global Warming is Everyone's Business and Business has Already Lost; - - The Kantian Blueprint of Climate Control; - - Section III: Mechanisms to Meet Kyoto; - - - Carbon Trading 101: An Introduction to Kyoto's Flexibility Mechanisms; Flexible Mechanisms: An Analysis from a Sustainable Development Perspective; - -Beyond Cap and Trade: New Mechanisms for Economically Limiting Greenhouse Gas Emissions - The 80 per cent Solution; Carbon Sequestration Credits, Trading Mechanisms and the Kyto Protocol: The Canadian Forestry Experience Carbon Sequestration Credits, Trading Mechanisms, and the Potential Role of the MNR; - -Making Carbon and Development Objectives Compatible under Sink Activities; - - Power, Motivation and Cognition in the Construction of Climate Policy: The Case of Tropical Forestry. Quantification of Reduced Emissions from Deforestation in Developing Countries; Reconsidering Approaches for Land Use to Mitigate Climate Change and to Promote Sustainable Development; - - High Hopes and Low Hanging Fruit: Contradictions and Struggles in South Africa's Carbon Market; Controlling Compliance after Kyoto; Section IV: Institutional and Policy Response; National Climate-friendly Governance Proposals for Developing Countries; - - Preventing Dangerous Climate Change: Adaptive Decision-making and Cooperative Management in Long-term Climate Policy; - - -Adaptive Governance in Climate Change; Climate Change Policy in North America and the European Union; Canada and Kyoto: Doing the Right Thing for the Wrong Reasons; Quebec's Plan d'action 2006-2012 for Climate Change: Canadian, North American and Global Context; - -Communicating Climate Science, with its Inherent Uncertainties, to Policy Makers; - - Section V: Legal Issues; Petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Seeking Relief from Violations Resulting from Global Warming Caused by Acts and Omissions of the United States; Section VI: Impact of Climate Change and/or Kyoto (non)Implementation of Different Regions or Countries; - -Responding to Climate Change and its Impact on Water Resources: A Case Study from the Middle East; Differential Vulnerability to Climate Change in Asia and Challenges for Adaptation within the Kyoto Context; Climate Change and Land Degradation in China: Challenges for Soil Conservation; - - Climate Change: Ten Years After Kyoto - An Australian Perspective; - - Obstacles to the Adoption of a Holistic Environmental Policy; - -Impact of Global Warming on Antarctica and its Flow and the Effect on Australian Environment; - - Section VII: Gender and Climate Change; - - Solidarity in the Greenhouse: Gender Equality and Climate Change; - - Section VIII: Safe Landing: Protecting the Climate for Future Generations and Health; Climate, Health and the Changing Canadian North; Assessment of Human Health Vulnerability in Cuba due to Climate or Weather Variability and Change; - -Section IX: Beyond 2012: The Next Phase; Climate Commitments: Assessing the Options; Flexible Options for Future Action; The 'Action' Approach to Cutting Greenhouse Gases: A Better Model for Addressing Global Warming; Action Targets: A New Approach to International Greenhouse Gas Controls; - - Towards Diffused Climate Change Governance - A Possible Path to Proceed after 2012; Background on CDM and Carbon Trading; Land-use and Climate Change in China with a Focus on the S