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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- PART I CLIMATE CHANGE AND ITS IMPACTS -- 1 John Houghton (2001), 'The Science of Global Warming', Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 26, pp. 247-57. -- 2 Brent Sohngen and Robert Mendelsohn (1998), 'Valuing the Impact of Large-Scale Ecological Change in a Market: The Effect of Climate Change on U.S. Timber', American Economic Review, 88, pp. 686-710. -- 3 Kenneth D. Frederick and David C. Major (1997), 'Climate Change and Water Resources', Climatic Change, 37, pp. 7-23. -- 4 Gary Yohe and Michael Schlesinger (2002), 'The Economic Geography of the Impacts of Climate Change', Journal of Economic Geography, 2, pp. 311-41. -- 5 Allan D. Brunner (2002), 'El Nino and World Primary Commodity Prices: Warm Water or Hot Air?', Review of Economics and Statistics, 84, pp. 176-83. -- 6 Robert Mendelsohn, William D. Nordhaus and Daigee Shaw (1994), 'The Impact of Global Warming on Agriculture: A Ricardian Analysis', American Economic Review, 84, pp. 753-71. -- 7 John Quiggin and John K. Horowitz (1999), 'The Impact of Global Warming on Agriculture: A Ricardian Analysis: Comment', American Economic Review, 89, pp. 1044-45. -- 8 Robert Mendelsohn and William Nordhaus (1999), 'The Impact of Global Warming on Agriculture: A Ricardian Analysis: Reply', American Economic Review, 89, pp. 1046-48. -- 9 Roy Darwin (1999), 'The Impact of Global Warming on Agriculture: A Ricardian Analysis: Comment', American Economic Review, 89, pp. 1049-52. -- 10 Robert Mendelsohn and William Nordhaus (1999), 'The Impact of Global Warming on Agriculture: A Ricardian Analysis: Reply', American Economic Review, 89, pp. 1053-55. -- PART II EVALUATING THE COSTS AND BENEFITS OF CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: reimagining climate change -- 2 The sociological imagination of climate futures -- 3 Climate security in the Anthropocene: "scaling up" the human niche -- 4 Climate change, policy knowledge, and the temporal imagination -- 5 Modernity on steroids: the promise and perils of climate protection in the Arabian Peninsula -- 6 Overcoming food insecurities in an era of climate change -- 7 Reimagining climate engineering: the politics of tinkering with the sky -- 8 Climate of the poor: suffering and the moral imperative to reimagine resilience -- 9 Reimagining radical climate justice -- 10 The promise of climate fiction: imagination, storytelling, and the politics of the future -- Index.

Climate change is a cause for concern both globally and locally. In order for it to be tackled holistically, its governance is an important topic needing scientific and practical consideration. Climate change governance is an emerging area, and one which is closely related to state and public administrative systems and the behaviour of private actors, including the business sector, as well as the civil society and non-governmental organisations. Questions of climate change governance deal both with mitigation and adaptation whilst at the same time trying to devise effective ways of managing the consequences of these measures across the different sectors. Many books have been produced on general matters related to climate change, such as climate modelling, temperature variations, sea level rise, but, to date, very few publications have addressed the political, economic and social elements of climate change and their links with governance. This book will address this gap. Furthermore, a particular feature of this book is that it not only presents different perspectives on climate change governance, but it also introduces theoretical approaches and brings these together with practical examples which show how main principles may be implemented in practice.

"Auf der Weltklimakonferenz vom 3. bis 14. Dezember 2007 in Bali wurde eine neue Etappe der internationalen Klimaverhandlungen eingeläutet. Die afrikanischen Länder werden von allen Verpflichtungen zur Reduzierung ausgeschlossen bleiben. Von den weiteren Verhandlungen erhoffen sie massive internationale Finanztransfers, um sich an die gravierenden Folgen des Klimawandels besser anpassen zu können. Wissenschaftler des UN-Weltklimarats (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - IPCC) sind sich einig: Kein Kontinent wird so stark vom Klimawandel betroffen sein wie Afrika - und sie fügen hinzu, 'dass der Kontinent besonders verletzlich (...) sein wird, weil die weit verbreitete Armut die Kapazitäten, sich an den Klimawandel anzupassen, erheblich einschränkt'(Hulme et al. 2001). Afrikas Interessen waren bei den globalen Klimaverhandlungen im Dezember 2007 in Bali kaum zu vernehmen. Die klimawissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse für Afrika finden erst allmählich die Aufmerksamkeit der politischen Entscheidungsträger und der Zivilgesellschaft. Jüngst räumten auch afrikanische Regierungschefs ein, dass die Folgen des Klimawandels verstärkt auf die nationale wie internationale Tagesordnung gehören - und auf Bali forderten sie einen hohen Anteil am Fonds zur Anpassung an den Klimawandel. Ein klimabezogener African Peer Review Mechanism ('Klima-APRM') könnte das Koordinationsinstrument für eine effektive, konsistente und länderübergreifende Klimaschutzpolitik sein." (Autorenreferat)

SUMMARY The Authority is required by legislation to review the Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) every three years; this is its first review. The review has benefited from consultations with stakeholders from a range of sectors and the Authority thanks those who contributed. When introduced in 2011, the CFI was designed to complement the carbon pricing mechanism. Accordingly, it focused on sectors not covered by the carbon price, namely: agriculture, waste (in part), and land use, land use change and forestry. CFI projects earned credits that could be sold to entities with liabilities under the carbon pricing mechanism. The carbon price has since been repealed, and the CFI has been expanded to form the Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF) and now covers all sectors of the economy. The ERF is the central plank of the government's Direct Action Plan to reduce Australia's greenhouse gas emissions. It has been introduced through amendments to the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011 (Cth), which brings it within the scope of this review. For simplicity's sake, this report refers to the CFI as the scheme as originally configured, and the ERF as the scheme as approved by the parliament in November 2014. Under the ERF, the government will purchase emissions reductions through auctions (and possibly other means). Fixed-price contracts, typically for seven years, will be offered to those who are successful at auction. Other changes to streamline the scheme are also being introduced, and a safeguard mechanism (that will discourage large emitters from increasing their emissions above historical levels) is to commence in July 2016. While these changes are substantial, the ERF retains an essential characteristic of the CFI in that it credits projects for reducing emissions below a defined baseline, and the baseline reflects what would have been expected to occur in the absence of the scheme. The changes to the CFI are important for this review in two ways. First, as the scheme is being expanded to become the central ...