Research Catalog

Title

Our simmering planet : what to do about global warming? / Joyeeta Gupta.

Author

Gupta, Joyeeta, 1964-

Publication

London ; New York : Zed Books, 2001.

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Details

Description

xv, 178 pages : illustrations; 20 cm.

Summary

Gupta's background is in law and economics; she has worked for non-governmental organizations in India, the US, and the Netherlands and has focused on climate change since 1991. Her current affiliation is with the Institute for Environmental Studies, Amsterdam. Departing from her usual work for specialists and academics, she gears this book for a more general audience, summarizing evidence that supports the contention that climate changes are being caused by global warming and chronicling the on-going negotiations between developed countries and developing countries to agree on a course of action. The book is distributed by Palgrave. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Series Statement

A global issues title

Uniform Title

Global issues series (Zed Books)

Subject

• Global warming
• Climatic changes
• global warming
• climate change
• Erwärmung Meteorologie
• Klimaänderung
• Réchauffement de la Terre > 1990- ..
• Climat > Changements > Aspect de l'environnement > 1990- ..

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 164-171) and index.

Contents

• 1. Weathering the weather -- Local weather calamities occurring globally -- The cauldron of discontent -- 2. Climate instability and global warming: the evidence -- What is climate change? -- Laboratory models and predictions -- The significance of laboratory predictions -- Sources and sinks -- Uncertainty about the distribution of impacts -- Who is responsible, and what action can be taken? -- Reasons for taking action -- 3. The climate change negotiations: from optimism to pragmatism -- The initial optimism -- The climate change treaty and its provisions: vague but setting a precedent -- The common but differentiated approach: leadership proclaimed -- The temporary dip -- COP-3: The Kyoto protocol -- Post Kyoto: COP-4 and 5 -- Implementation without ratification -- COP-6: irreconcilable breakdown or minor hitch in a long process? -- Beyond 2001: critical issues ahead -- 4. The Kyoto regime and its controversies -- Being principled about principles -- Targets: horse-trading or fair-dealing? -- The flexible mechanisms: carbon trading and others -- Technology cooperation -- The financial mechanism -- Adaptation -- Sinks -- Equity: the targets and leadership revisited -- 5. The players and their concerns: caught between domestic oppostion and international commitments -- The USA: beating about the bush -- The UK -- Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Norway: leaders turned laggards -- Russia, Japan, China, India, South Africa -- 6. The game of coalitions -- The North-South dichotomy -- Northern coalitions -- The European Unions -- Eastern and Central Europe -- Developing country coalitions -- Curious coalitions.
• 7. The non-state actors and coalitions -- The growing mass of non-state actors -- Environmental NGO's -- Industry and business: Russian Roulette or Casino Capitalism -- Other social actors -- 8. Due process and the rule of law: towards decreasing transparency -- Legitimacy: the growing challenge -- Differences between countries in preparation for negotiating sessions -- At the negotiations: when the going gets tough -- 9. Saving face is saving faith -- Three steps forward, two steps back -- Bonn 2001: Pyrrhic Victory -- The problem redefined: ideological, technological and institutional 'lock-in' -- The scenarios -- Winner takes all: cynical issue linkages -- Saving face -- Re-thinking the north: the cracked mirror.

ISBN

• 1842770780
• 9781842770788
• 1842770799
• 9781842770795
• 1552660672
• 9781552660676
• 0864865139
• 9780864865137

LCCN

2001046804

OCLC

• ocm47674966
• 47674966
• SCSB-1294940

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library