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Presents a new approach to case formulation, making meaning from
each clinical case and using every piece of data available.
Contains vignettes throughout to illustrate the process. Suitable
for both established clinicians and for those in training and newly
qualified.
This unique book examines the problem of global warming from the
perspective of Asian Pacific countries. The unprecedented economic
and demographic growth over the past two decades has increased the
importance of the Asian Pacific region. It has become both a very
large source of greenhouse gases as well as an important site to
measure climate change impacts. Complex economic tools including
computable general equilibrium models, international input-output
models and engineering-economic models are used to assess the
baseline emission levels and abatement costs for the economies
examined. All outcomes suggest that abatement is possible, but will
be expensive. The studies also suggest that the more energy
efficient the economy, the higher the costs of further abatement.
The book reveals how Asian countries in the tropics are more likely
to be harmed than those in the temperate zone. Alternative
strategies to mitigate carbon emissions such as energy
conservation, emission permit trading, carbon tax, and carbon
sequestration are examined to tackle the difficult problem of
establishing effective policy tools to control warming in the Asian
Pacific and the globe. While no single author provides a complete
answer to this complex problem, all authors provide vital
information and new ideas with which to fashion workable
international and regional policies. Global Warming and the Asian
Pacific is likely to be read by scholars and researchers of Asian
studies, environmental and resource economics, as well as
policymakers and those specifically involved in global warming
research and policy.
Presents a new approach to case formulation, making meaning from
each clinical case and using every piece of data available.
Contains vignettes throughout to illustrate the process. Suitable
for both established clinicians and for those in training and newly
qualified.
This book explores the interaction between climate change and the
agriculture sector. Agriculture is essential to the livelihood of
people and nations, especially in the developing world; therefore,
any impact on it will have significant economic, social, and
political ramifications. Scholars from around the world and from
various fields have been brought together to explore this important
topic. The contributions found here analyze direct agronomic
effects, the economic impacts on agriculture, agricultural impacts
on the economy, agricultural mitigation, and farmer adaptation. The
authors argue that climate change is likely to have an extensive
impact on agriculture around the world through changes in
temperature, precipitation, concentrations of carbon dioxide, and
available water flows. This thorough and timely volume is an
invaluable resource for anyone interested in exploring the impacts
of climate change in arguably the most important sector of the
world economy. Economists, agronomists, and climate modelers in
academia and the public sector, policy analysts and development
agency staff, and graduate/postgraduate students will find this
remarkable volume a welcome addition to their collection.
This book uses clear language, modern contexts and key
psychoanalytic concepts to exemplify how Sigmund Freud's thinking
and legacy is directly relevant to contemporary therapists.
Interweaving theory with history, Freudian Thought for the
Contemporary Clinician allows readers to take a walk in Freud's
shoes, offering a new framework for understanding his arcane
language and the cultural mores of the early 20th century. Robert
Mendelsohn explores topics including sexuality and gender, racial
injustice and cultural differences with direct reference to Freud's
cases, demonstrating how traditional psychoanalytic ideas may
inform solutions to issues we face today. Featuring clinical
examples and philosophical explorations delivered in an accessible
style, Freudian Thought for the Contemporary Clinician will be a
key text for psychoanalytic clinicians in practice and in training.
It will also be of great interest to academics and scholars of
psychoanalytic studies, the history of psychology and the history
of ideas.
This book explores the interaction between climate change and the
agriculture sector. Agriculture is essential to the livelihood of
people and nations, especially in the developing world; therefore,
any impact on it will have significant economic, social, and
political ramifications. Scholars from around the world and from
various fields have been brought together to explore this important
topic. The contributions found here analyze direct agronomic
effects, the economic impacts on agriculture, agricultural impacts
on the economy, agricultural mitigation, and farmer adaptation. The
authors argue that climate change is likely to have an extensive
impact on agriculture around the world through changes in
temperature, precipitation, concentrations of carbon dioxide, and
available water flows. This thorough and timely volume is an
invaluable resource for anyone interested in exploring the impacts
of climate change in arguably the most important sector of the
world economy. Economists, agronomists, and climate modelers in
academia and the public sector, policy analysts and development
agency staff, and graduate/postgraduate students will find this
remarkable volume a welcome addition to their collection.
The Economics of Pollution Control in the Asia Pacific adapts
environmental economics to the special conditions of the Asia
Pacific region, emphasizing the importance of local conditions and
culture. Global warming, air pollution and water pollution are all
addressed by a distinguished group of authors who rigorously apply
economics to the analysis of pollution control in societies
undergoing rapid industrialization. As this pioneering volume
demonstrates, citizens of rapidly developing Taiwan and Korea are
willing to pay substantial amounts for the protection and
improvement of air and water quality, and face potentially huge
losses from global climate change. A number of the papers also
point to some cost effective alternatives for helping to reduce
global greenhouse gas emission. As this major book reveals, the
make-up of Asian politico-economic systems has a direct impact on
environmental policies, from benefit estimation to instrument
choice. As the authors argue, policymakers and researchers in the
Asia Pacific cannot draw on European and American methods,
arguments and conclusions without considerable modification for
regional conditions.
Climate scientists have determined that recent global temperature
increases are due in large part to increased greenhouse gas
emissions from human activities. Even if mitigation of these gases
begins immediately, there is every reason to believe that climate
change will continue to occur. Every region in the world ought to
forecast, as the contributors do in this study of California (a
region of broad variation and high population), how it will be
affected by climate change and how it might best adapt. Models are
used to estimate potential physical and biological impacts,
efficient adaptations, and residual damages from climate change.
The contributors cover a broad array of climate change impacts on
affected market sectors (including water supply, agriculture,
coastal resources, timber, and energy demand) as well as ecosystems
and biodiversity. An integrated hydrologic-agriculture model is
developed to explore how the region would adapt to changes in water
flows. Interactions between climate impacts and population and
economic growth, urbanization, and technological change are also
explored. For example, the study examines how both climate change
and projected land development affect the region's terrestrial
ecosystems and biodiversity. The level of geographical detail,
along with the broad applicability of the modeling, methodology,
and conclusions, make this a unique and valuable reference for
environmental economists, scientists, planners, and policymakers.
The impact of climate change on seven regions of the United States
is studied in this new and accessible collection. The study
examines how the different regions of the United States may be
affected by climate change. In particular, the study explores
whether warming would be beneficial to the northern (colder)
regions but harmful to the economies of the southern (warmer)
regions. The study examines important sectors of the US economy
that are likely to be affected by climate change. It examines
agriculture, forestry, water resources, energy, and coastal
resources. Economic models are used to examine each sector and
there is a separate chapter for each sector. Because the study
focuses on including efficient adaptation responses, the special
role of adaptation is discussed in detail. The book concludes with
a discussion of the impacts across the country and in each region.
Any reader interested in climate change and its impacts will find
this book of detailed results enlightening. The book is especially
useful for people interested in studying impact methodologies.
This landmark book encompasses a comprehensive assessment of the
potential economic impacts of future climate change, and the value
of adaptation measures in Africa for different zones, regions,
countries and farm types. Researchers developed and applied
multiple analytical procedures to assess quantitatively how climate
affects current agricultural systems in Africa, enabling them to
predict how these systems may be affected in the future by climate
change under various global warming scenarios, and suggesting what
role adaptation could play. The study is the first to combine
spatially referenced household survey data with climatic data at
both national and international levels. This book provides vital
knowledge about the impacts of climate change on Africa, serving as
a guide to policy intervention strategies and investment in
adaptation measures. It makes a major contribution to the analysis
of climate change impacts and developing adaptation strategies,
especially in the highly vulnerable farming communities in the
developing world. Published with CEEPA and supported by the World
Bank.
This book uses clear language, modern contexts and key
psychoanalytic concepts to exemplify how Sigmund Freud's thinking
and legacy is directly relevant to contemporary therapists.
Interweaving theory with history, Freudian Thought for the
Contemporary Clinician allows readers to take a walk in Freud's
shoes, offering a new framework for understanding his arcane
language and the cultural mores of the early 20th century. Robert
Mendelsohn explores topics including sexuality and gender, racial
injustice and cultural differences with direct reference to Freud's
cases, demonstrating how traditional psychoanalytic ideas may
inform solutions to issues we face today. Featuring clinical
examples and philosophical explorations delivered in an accessible
style, Freudian Thought for the Contemporary Clinician will be a
key text for psychoanalytic clinicians in practice and in training.
It will also be of great interest to academics and scholars of
psychoanalytic studies, the history of psychology and the history
of ideas.
Despite its great importance, there are surprisingly few economic
studies of the impact of climate on agriculture and how agriculture
can adapt under a variety of conditions. This book examines 22
countries across four continents, including both developed and
developing economies. It provides both a good analytical basis for
additional work and solid results for policy debate concerning
income distributional effects such as abatement, adaptation, and
equity. Agriculture and grazing are a central sector in the
livelihood of many people, particularly in developing countries.
This book uses the Ricardian method to examine the impact of
climate change on agriculture. It also quantifies how farmers adapt
to climate. The findings suggest that agriculture in developing
countries is more sensitive to climate than agriculture in
developed countries. Rain-fed cropland is generally more sensitive
to warming than irrigated cropland and cropland is more sensitive
than livestock. The adaptation to climate change results reveal
that farmers make many adjustments including switching crops and
livestock species, adopting irrigation, and moving between
livestock and crops. The results also reveal that impacts and
adaptations vary a great deal across landscapes, suggesting that
adaptation policies must be location specific. Finally, the book
suggests a research agenda for the future. Economists in academia
and the public sector, policy analysts and development agencies
will find this broad study illuminating.
This book covers issues from unnecessary surgeries and prescribed
drugs, to preventive medicine and home births.
Couple psychotherapy extends the work of the psychotherapist to the
patient's most significant committed adult relationship, yet the
therapy is difficult both conceptually and technically. One major
reason for this difficulty is that in every couple's treatment
there is a confusing array of psychological defenses as well as
regressive and nonregressive couple object relations-as distinct
from the object relations that each individual member brings to the
couple. Further, many of these processes are occurring outside
consciousness and at the very same time. This book is an attempt to
clarify all the confusing issues by presenting a three-factor model
of couple psychotherapy within a psychodynamic framework. This
model has been found to be very effective with many different kinds
of couples. The book suggests that there are three powerful couple
dynamics that shape every couple's treatment: (A) the quality and
quantity of the couple's projective identifications; (B) the level
of their "couple object relations"; and (C) the presence or absence
of the defense of omnipotent control. These three variables are the
most important factors in the therapy; they determine the success
or failure of every therapy with every couple. These dynamics also
determine quite a bit about how to conduct a couple therapy with
regard to the therapist's level of activity, tone, the way of
sorting the material in his or her head, and even the kinds of
interventions he/she chooses (whether or not, for example, the
therapist will use certain resistance techniques). Understanding
these three variables and how they interact is key to the success
of the therapy.
Understanding the impacts of climate change on economic behaviour
is an important aspect of deciding when to take policy actions to
prevent or mitigate its consequences. This book applies advanced
new economics methodologies to assess impacts on potentially
vulnerable aspects of the US economy: agriculture, timber, coastal
resources, energy expenditure, fishing, outdoor recreation. It is
intended to provide improved understanding of key issues raised in
the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
reports. It concludes that some climate change may produce economic
gains in the agriculture and forestry sectors, whereas energy,
coastal structures, and water sectors may be harmed. The book will
serve as an important reference for the scientific, economic, and
policy community, and will also be of interest to natural
resource/environmental economists as an example of economic
valuation techniques. The volume will clearly be of main importance
to researchers and policymakers in the US, but will also be
influential as a model for assessment of impacts on economies
worldwide.
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