Track My Order
Help Centre
1300 187 187
Likes
My Wish ListsLogin / Join
Booktopia
Australia's local bookstore
Climate Change in the South Pacific : Impacts and Responses in Australia, New Zealand, and Small Island States - Alexander Gillespie

Climate Change in the South Pacific

Impacts and Responses in Australia, New Zealand, and Small Island States

By: Alexander Gillespie (Editor), William C.G. Burns (Editor)

Hardcover | 30 November 1999

At a Glance

Hardcover

$264.27

or 4 interest-free payments of $66.07 with

 or 

Aims to ship in 7 to 10 business days

ALEXANDER GILLESPIE & WILLIAM C.G. BURNS The idea for this book grew out of the Ecopolitics conference in Canberra, Australia in 1996. The conference captured the ferment of the climate change debate in the South Pacific, as well as some its potential implications for the region's inhabitants and e- systems. At that conference, one of the editors (Gillespie) delivered a paper on climate change issues in the region, as did Ros Taplin and Mark Diesendorf, who are also c- tributors to this volume. This book focuses on climate change issues in Australia, New Zealand, and the small island nations in the Pacific as the world struggles to cope with possible the impacts of environmental change and to formulate effective responses. While Australia and New Zealand's per capita emissions of greenhouse gases are among the highest in the world, their aggregate contributions are small. However, both nations may exert a disprop- tionate influence in the global greenhouse debate because their obstinate positions at recent conferences of the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on C- mate Change (FCCC) may provide justification for other developed nations, as well as developing countries, to refuse to make meaningful reductions in their greenhouse gas emissions.

You Can Find This Book In

Non-FictionEarth Sciences, Geography, Environment, PlanningEarth SciencesMeteorology & ClimatologyNature & The Natural WorldScienceBiology, Life SciencesLife Sciences in GeneralEcological ScienceThe EnvironmentPollution & Threats to the EnvironmentClimate Change
Engineering & TechnologyEnvironmental Science

Other Editions and Formats

Paperback

Published: 22nd October 2010

View Product

More in Meteorology & Climatology

The Cloud Collector's Handbook - Gavin Pretor-Pinney

The Cloud Collector's Handbook

Hardcover

RRP $29.99

$27.90

Living Hot : Surviving and Thriving on a Heating Planet - Clive Hamilton

Living Hot

Surviving and Thriving on a Heating Planet

Paperback

RRP $28.00

$23.80

15%
OFF
The Physics of Climate Change - Lawrence M. Krauss

The Physics of Climate Change

Paperback

RRP $22.99

$21.90

The Weather Book : Why It Happens and Where It Comes From - Diana Craig

The Weather Book

Why It Happens and Where It Comes From

Paperback

RRP $22.99

$19.75

14%
OFF
A Theory of /Cloud/ : Toward a History of Painting - Hubert Damisch

A Theory of /Cloud/

Toward a History of Painting

Paperback

RRP $61.75

$58.75

Weather For Dummies : 2nd edition - John D. Cox

Weather For Dummies

2nd edition

Paperback

RRP $41.95

$32.50

23%
OFF

This product is categorised by

Popular Searches