ABSTRACT
Foreword v Preface ix List of Contributors xix
Volume 1
Section I: Introduction
1. Introduction: Climate Change and Kyoto Protocol 3 Velma I. Grover
2. Butterfly Lessons 43 Elizabeth Kolbert
3. Climate or Development – A Practitioner’s View 57 Holger Liptow and Kathrin Birkel
4. Climate Conflicts: Extricating Post-Kyoto Debates in 71 Science and Policy Saleem H. Ali
5. The Politics of Equity: Precedent for Post-Kyoto Per 87 Capita Schemes Jon Rosales
6. Response to Climate Change by Non-Annex I Parties 107 Mohammad Reza Salamat
7. Climate Change and Collective Action: Troubles in 129 the Transition to a Post-Oil Economy Joshua W. Busby
8. Communication Failures in Climate Policy: 155 Complementary Action on Abrupt Climate Change Peter Read
Section II: Philosophical Approach to Climate Change
9. Kyoto: at the End of the Day, Global Warming is 183 Everyone’s Business and Business has Already Lost Simon Willace
10. The Kantian Blueprint of Climate Control 201 Martin Schönfeld
Section III: Mechanisms to Meet Kyoto
11. Carbon Trading 101: An Introduction to Kyoto’s 219 Flexibility Mechanisms Graham Erion
12. Flexible Mechanisms: An Analysis from a Sustainable 239 Development Perspective Dire Tladi
13. Beyond Cap and Trade: New Mechanisms for 255 Economically Limiting Greenhouse Gas Emissions — The 80% Solution John S. Hoffman
14. Carbon Sequestration Credits, Trading Mechanisms 293 and the Kyoto Protocol: The Canadian Forestry Experience Carbon Sequestration Credits, Trading Mechanisms, and the Potential Role of the MNR Atif Kubursi
15. Making Carbon and Development Objectives 315 Compatible under Sink Activities Samy Hotimsky and Mike Robbins
16. Power, Motivation and Cognition in the Construction of 343 Climate Policy: The Case of Tropical Forestry Margaret M. Skutsch and Hans Th.A. Bressers
17. Quantification of Reduced Emissions from 369 Deforestation in Developing Countries Patrick E. Van Laake and Jeroen J. Verplanke
18. Reconsidering Approaches for Land Use to Mitigate 387 Climate Change and to Promote Sustainable Development Arthur Riedacker
19. High Hopes and Low Hanging Fruit: Contradictions and 425 Struggles in South Africa’s Carbon Market Graham Erion
20. Controlling Compliance after Kyoto 449 Dirk Hanschel
Section IV: Institutional and Policy Response
21. National Climate-friendly Governance Proposals for 473 Developing Countries Suani Teixeira Coelho, Fernando Rei, Osvaldo Stella Martins, Oswaldo Lucon and Patricia Guardabassi
22. Preventing Dangerous Climate Change: Adaptive 493 Decision-making and Cooperative Management in Long-term Climate Policy Jürgen Scheffran
23. Adaptive Governance in Climate Change 527 The Cases of the International Climate Change Regime and Water Management in The Netherlands Dave Huitema, Jeroen Aerts and Harro van Asselt
24. Climate Change Policy in North America and 563 the European Union Paul Hamilton
25. Canada and Kyoto: Doing the Right Thing for 581 the Wrong Reasons Roberto P. Leone
26. Québec’s Plan d’action 2006-2012 for Climate Change: 601 Canadian, North American and Global Context Jean Mercier and Jean Crête
27. Communicating Climate Science, with its Inherent 621 Uncertainties, to Policy Makers G.A. McBean
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Section V: Legal Issues
28. Petition to the Inter-American Commission on 643 Human Rights Seeking Relief from Violations Resulting from Global Warming Caused by Acts and Omissions of the United States Martin Wagner, Paul Crowley and Donald M. Goldberg
Section VI: Impact of Climate Change and/or Kyoto (non) Implementation of Different Regions or Countries
29. Responding to Climate Change and Its Impact on 655 Water Resources: A Case Study from the Middle East Fadia Daibes-Murad
30. Differential Vulnerability to Climate Change in Asia and 681 Challenges for Adaptation within the Kyoto Context Lilibeth Acosta-Michlik, Liu Chunling and Ulka Kelkar
31. Climate Change and Land Degradation in China: 701 Challenges for Soil Conservation Alexia Stokes, Yibing Chen, Jingjing Huang and Chaowen Lin
32. Climate Change: Ten Years After Kyoto – 721 An Australian Perspective Syed U. Hussainy and Santosh Kumar
33. Obstacles to the Adoption of a Holistic Environmental 739 Policy Alcira Noemí Perlini Montiel
34. Impact of Global Warming on Antarctica and 759 Its Flow on Effect on Australian Environment Syed U. Hussainy and Santosh Kumar
Section VII: Gender and Climate Change
35. Solidarity in the Greenhouse: Gender Equality and 779 Climate Change Ulrike Röhr and Minu Hemmati
Section VIII: Safe Landing: Protecting the Climate for Future Generations and Health
36. Climate, Health and the Changing Canadian North 807 Christopher Furgal, Pierre Gosselin and Nicolas Vézeau
37. Assessment of Human Health Vulnerability in Cuba 847 due to Climate or Weather Variability and Change Paulo Lázaro Ortíz Bultó, Luis Lecha Estela, Alina Rivero Valencia and Antonio Pérez Rodríguez
Section IX: Beyond 2012: The Next Phase
38. Climate Commitments: Assessing the Options 889 Daniel Bodansky
39. Flexible Options for Future Action 915 Cédric Philibert
40. The ‘Action’ Approach to Cutting Greenhouse Gases: 933 A Better Model for Addressing Global Warming Donald M. Goldberg
41. Action Targets: A New Approach to International 955 Greenhouse Gas Controls Kevin A. Baumert and Donald M. Goldberg
42. Towards Diffused Climate Change Governance-977 A Possible Path to Proceed after 2012 Norichika Kanie
43. Background on CDM and Carbon Trading 993 Graham Erion
44. Land-use and Climate Change in China with a Focus on 999 the Shaanxi Province in the Chinese Loess PlateauLessons for Future Climate Politics Madelene Ostwald and Deliang Chen
Section X: Kyoto Protocol: Bali and Beyond
45. Climate Governance Post Bali: Signs of Hope 1015 Joyeeta Gupta
46. Bali and Beyond 1031 Donald M. Goldberg
47. Beyond Bali and Bush: The Future of Climate Policy 1043 Joshua W. Busby
48. From Kyoto to Copenhagen by Way of Bali 1053 Jean Crête
49. Looking Ahead from 2007 1057 G.A. McBean
50. Post-2012 Institutional Architecture to Address 1065 Climate Change: A Proposal for Effective Governance Norichika Kanie
51. A Gender-Sensitive Climate Regime? 1079 Ulrike Röhr and Minu Hemmati
Index 1085 Colour Plate Section 1099
Acosta-Michlik, Lilibeth Département de Géologie et de Géographie, Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Place Louis Pasteur 3, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
