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Effective policies to prevent global warming and climatic change
are urgently required by the world community. However,
international negotiations on this issue repeatedly come up against
the problems of allocating responsibility for the greenhouse
effect, and bearing the costs of remedying the situation.;This
volume offers a multidisciplinary response to the challenge. It
presents the scientific, economic and political issues and goes on
to describe the policy options available. The different ways of
determining responsibility for greenhouse gases and calculating
obligations to pay for hazards to the environment are analyzed. The
contributors examine the implications for various countries, while
a concluding chapter explores climatic change negotations - what is
at stake, and for whom.
This book presents essays related to major contributions of
Harrison Brown in the physical sciences, global resource problems,
and international cooperation for better understanding of the
common problems facing humanity and to provide better solutions to
them.
During the second half of the twentieth century, great changes have
occurred in the natural sciences, spawned by the leap forward in
physics during the war years and the growth in understanding of
earth's history and place in the cosmos. Also, with the new and
terrible consequences of full-fledged war, the nuclear age has
brought to the fore the ne
Effective policies to prevent global warming and climatic change
are urgently required by the world community. However,
international negotiations on this issue repeatedly come up against
the problems of allocating responsibility for the greenhouse
effect, and bearing the costs of remedying the situation.;This
volume offers a multidisciplinary response to the challenge. It
presents the scientific, economic and political issues and goes on
to describe the policy options available. The different ways of
determining responsibility for greenhouse gases and calculating
obligations to pay for hazards to the environment are analyzed. The
contributors examine the implications for various countries, while
a concluding chapter explores climatic change negotations - what is
at stake, and for whom.
The substantial burden of death and disability that results from
interpersonal violence, road traffic injuries, unintentional
injuries, occupational health risks, air pollution, climate change,
and inadequate water and sanitation falls disproportionally on low-
and middle-income countries. Injury Prevention and Environmental
Health addresses the risk factors and presents updated data on the
burden, as well as economic analyses of platforms and packages for
delivering cost-effective and feasible interventions in these
settings. The volume's contributors demonstrate that implementation
of a range of prevention strategies-presented in an essential
package of interventions and policies-could achieve a convergence
in death and disability rates that would avert more than 7.5
million deaths a year.
The substantial burden of death and disability that results from
interpersonal violence, road traffic injuries, unintentional
injuries, occupational health risks, air pollution, climate change,
and inadequate water and sanitation falls disproportionally on low-
and middle-income countries. Injury Prevention and Environmental
Health addresses the risk factors and presents updated data on the
burden, as well as economic analyses of platforms and packages for
delivering cost-effective and feasible interventions in these
settings. The volume's contributors demonstrate that implementation
of a range of prevention strategies-presented in an essential
package of interventions and policies-could achieve a convergence
in death and disability rates that would avert more than 7.5
million deaths a year.
This landmark study is the result of a collaborative research
effort among the East-West Center and a group of institutions in
China (Taipei), Japan, and Korea, in consultation with experts at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Electric Power
Research Institute of California. The first project of its kind to
mobilize senior power experts in the three major countries of
Northeast Asia for cooperative electric future assessment,
Electricity in Economic Development highlights the critical role of
the electric power sector in influencing a nation's future
industrial development and its energy supply-demand pattern in the
post-oil-crisis era.
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