Climate protection and development / / editors, Frank Ackerman, Richard Kozul-Wright, Rob Vos.

Writing about climate change often falls into one of two opposite traps - predicting either calamity or apathy - both of which this book avoids. This is not a story of gloom and doom, of inevitable climate catastrophe. On the contrary, this book spells out, in more detail than usual, what can and sh...

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Superior document:The United Nations Series on Development
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Place / Publishing House:London, England ;, New York, New York : : Bloomsbury Academic,, [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:The United Nations Series on Development
Physical Description:1 online resource (159 p.)
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