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change -- Mitigation : limiting climate change ---Climate change in context -- The politics of greenhouse -- International concern and national interests -- Accepting the challenge.

the dead -- Part II. One in ten thousand -- 9. Magic gates, El Niño and La Niña -- 10. Peril at the poles -- 11. 2050: the Great Stumpy Reef? -- 12. A warming from the golden toad -- 13. Rainfall -- 14. Extreme weather -- 15. Rising waters -- Part III. The science of prediction -- 16. Model worlds -- 17. Danger ahead -- 18. Retreating up the mountains -- 19. How can they keep on moving? -- 20. The three tipping points -- 21. The end of civilisation? -- Part IV. People in greenhouses -- 22. The story of ozone -- 23. The road to Kyoto -- 24. Cost, cost, cost -- 25. People in greenhouses shouldn't tell lies -- 26. Last steps on the stairway to heaven? -- Part V. The solution -- 27. Bright as sunlight, light as wind -- 28. Nuclear? -- 29. Hybrids, minicats and contrails -- 30. Over to you -- Glossary.

Sartore [photographer] ; Forest conservation ; Eyewitness to change: Tim Laman, Daniel Beltrá [photographers] ; Reforestation and agroforestry ; Eyewitness to change: Cristina Mittermeier [photographer] -- Adaptation. Adapting to climate change. Terrestrial biodiversity ; Eyewitness to change: Frans Lanting [photographer] ; Freshwater biodiversity ; Eyewitness to change: Michael Forsberg [photographer] ; The role of oceans ; Eyewitness to change: Paul Nicklen [photographer] ; Human dimensions ; Eyewitness to change: John Stanmeyer [photographer] ; Tipping points ; Eyewitness to change: James Balog [photographer] ; A call to action.

glaciers ; "More like winter than summer" ; Dearth and revolution ; The year without a summer ; An Ghorta Mór -- The modern warm period. A warmer greenhouse.

Greenhouse Gases andGlobal Warming Potential. 2.5. The Ozone Factor. 2.6. The Aerosols Factor. 2.7. Scientific Uncertainty and Decision Making. 2.8. Concluding Observations -- Ch. 3. Economic Approaches. 3.1. Introduction. 3.2. Sustainability and Sustainable Development.3.3. Externalities and Transaction Costs. 3.4. Valuation of Resources and the Environment. 3.5. Discounting Over Time. 3.6. The New Green Golden Rule. 3.7. Economics of Ecotaxes. 3.8. Economic Policies: Multilevel Approaches. 3.9. Concluding Observations-- App. 3A. Analystics of Low Discount Rates for Stochastic Costs -- App. 3B. Optimal Incentives and Disincentives -- Ch. 4. Economics of the Greenhouse Effect. 4.1. Introduction. 4.2. Ecological Economic Aspects.4.3. Economics of the Global Warming Potential. 4.4. Biogeophysical and Public Health Economics. 4.5. Economic Damage Assessment. 4.6. Mitigating the Greenhouse Effect and Climatic Changes. 4.7. Concluding Observations -- Ch. 5. Greenhouse Gas Regimesand Climate Change. 5.1. Introduction. 5.2. Climate Stabilization. 5.3. Greenhouse Gas Reduction and Target Fixation. 5.4. Market and Nonmarket Policy Instruments. 5.5. Tradable Permits and Carbon Trade. 5.6. Carbon Sequestration and Forestry.5.7. Cost Efectiveness of Alternatives. 5.8. Cost Sharing and North-South Issues. 5.9. Concluding Observations -- App. 5A. UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Articles -- App. 5B. Kyoto Protocol to the UNFCCC -- Ch. 6. International Institutional.Mechanisms. 6.1. Introduction. 6.2. Multilateral Institutions. 6.3. Joint Implementation and Clean Development Mechanisms. 6.4. Political Economy of Global Environmental Policies. 6.5. Concluding Observations -- Ch. 7. The Road (or Air) Ahead.7.1. The Kyoto Protocol and After. 7.2. New Initiatives and Institutional Mechanisms. 7.3. Improved Effectiveness of Global Initiatives.

change: considering the case of displacement and migration / Anthony Oliver-Smith -- Apocalypse nicked! Stolen rhetoric in early geoengineering advocacy / Clare Heyward and Steve Rayner -- Complex systems and multiple crises of energy / John Urry -- Entangled futures: anthropology's engagement with global change research / Eduardo S. Brondizio -- pt. 2. Assessing encounters old and new -- Gone with cows and kin? Climate, globalization, and youth alienation in Siberia / Susan A. Crate -- Climate change in Leukerbad and beyond: re-visioning our cultures of energy and environment / Sarah Strauss -- Storm warnings: an anthropological focus on community resilience in the face of climate change in Southern Bangladesh / Timothy J. Finan and Md. Ashiqur Rahman -- Correlating local knowledge with climatic data: Porgeran experiences of climate change in Papua New Guinea / Jerry K. Jacka -- Speaking again of climate change: an analysis of climate change discourses in Northwestern Alaska / Elizabeth Marino and Peter Schweitzer -- Too little and too late: what to do about climate change in the Torres Strait? / Donna Green -- Shifting tides: climate change, migration, and agency in Tuvalu / Heather Lazrus -- The politics of rain: Tanzanian farmers' discourse on climate and political disorder / Michael Sheridan -- Cornish weather and the phenomenology of light: on anthropology and "Seeing" / Tori L. Jennings -- Making sense of climate change: global impacts, local responses, and anthropogenic dilemmas in the Peruvian Andes / Karsten Paerregaard -- Climate change beyond the "Environmental": the Marshallese case / Peter Rudiak-Gould -- "This is not science fiction": Amazonian narratives of climate change / David Rojas -- pt. 3. Refining anthropological actions -- Fostering resilience in a changing sea-ice context: a Grant Maker's perspective / Anne Henshaw -- Is a sustainable consumer culture possible? / Richard Wilk -- "Climate skepticism" inside the Beltway and across the Bay / Shirley J. Fiske -- When adaptation is not enough: between the "Now and then" of community-led resettlement / Kristina Peterson and Julie Koppel Maldonado -- Narwhal hunters, seismic surveys, and the middle ice: monitoring environmental change in Greenland's Melville Bay / Mark Nuttall -- Insuring the rain as climate adaptation in an Ethiopian Agricultural Community / Nicole D. Peterson and Daniel Osgood -- Pedagogy and climate change / Chris Hebdon, Myles Lennon, Francis Ludlow, Amy Zhang, and Michael R. Dove -- Bridging knowledge and action on climate change: institutions, translation, and anthropological engagement / Noor Johnson -- Escaping the double bind: from the management of uncertainty toward integrated climate research / Werner Krauss -- Epilogue: encounters, actions, transformations / Susan A. Crate and Mark Nuttall.