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Climate Related Publications from 2008

Climate Governance

  • Bumpus, A. G. & Liverman, D. M. (2008). Accumulation by decarbonisation and the governance of carbon offsets. Economic Geography, 84(2), 127-55.
  • Bumpus, A. (2008) Carbon Offsets. Geography Review. 21 (4) p. 24-25
  • Batterbury, S.P.J. (2008) Anthropology and global warming: the need for environmental engagement. The Australian Journal of Anthropology. 19 (1):62-68.
  • Maria Carmen Lemos and J. Timmons Roberts (2008) "Environmental Policymaking Networks and the Future of the Amazon Philosophical Transactions of the Academy of the Royal Society vol. 363:1897-1902.
  • Liverman, D.M and Boyd, E (2008) The CDM, ethics and development. Chapter in A Reformed CDM – including new Mechanisms for Sustainable Development. UNEP Perspectives Series 2008, pp47-58.
  • Newell, P. ‘Technology, Food, Power: Governing GMOs in Argentina’ in Clapp, J & D. Fuchs (eds) Agro-Food Corporations, Global Governance, and Sustainability Cambridge: MIT press.
  • Newell, P. (2008) ‘Debating Biotechnology’ BioRes: Trade and Environment Review Geneva: International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, Issue 4 May pp.7-9.
  • Newell, P. (2008) ‘Trade and biotechnology in Latin America: Democratization, Contestation and the Politics of Mobilization’ in Borras, S.M, M. Edelman and C. Kay (eds) Transnational Agrarian Movements Confronting Globalization Wiley Blackwell.
  • Newell, P. (2008) ‘The political economy of global environmental governance’ Review of International Studies July 2008.
  • Newell, P.(2008) ‘Trade and biotechnology in Latin America: Democratization, Contestation and the Politics of Mobilization’, Journal of Agrarian Change, Vol. 8 No.2-3 2008, pp. 345-376.
  • Newell, P. (2008) ‘Civil society, corporate accountability and the politics of climate change’, Global Environmental Politics, Vol.8 No.3 2008.
  • Newell, P. (2008) ‘Lost in Translation? Domesticating Global Policy on GMOs: Comparing India and China’, Global Society Vol.22 No.1, 2008, pp. 115-136.
  • Newell, P. (2008) ‘The Marketisation of Global Environmental Governance: Manifestations and Implications’ in Park, J. Conca, K. and Finger, M. (Eds) The Crisis of Global Environmental Governance: Towards a New Political Economy of Sustainability. London: Routledge.
  • Robert Hicks, Bradley Parks*, J. Timmons Roberts, and Michael Tierney. (2008) Greening Aid? Explaining Environmental Foreign Assistance. Oxford University Press.
  • J. Timmons Roberts and Bradley C. Parks(2008) "Grandfathering, Carbon Intensity, Historical Responsibility, or Contract/Converge?" P. 158-178 in Steven Berntein, Jutta Brunnee, David G. Duff, and Andrew J. Green. A Globally Integrated Climate Policy for Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
  • J. Timmons Roberts (2008) Climate Change: Why the Old Approaches Aren’t Working." In Twenty Lectures in Environmental Sociology. In Kenneth Gould and Tammy Lewis, editors. Oxford University Press, Forthcoming 2008.
  • J. Timmons Roberts (2008) "Globalization: The Environment and Development Debate." in The Politics of the Environment (Routledge Europa), Chuks Okereke editor. 2008.
  • Tompkins E. L., Amundsen H. (2008). Perceptions of the effectiveness of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in advancing national action on climate change. Environmental Science and Policy 11 (1): 1-13
  • Tompkins, E. L., Brown, K. and Few, R. (2008 in press). Scenario-based stakeholder engagement: A framework for incorporating climate change into coastal decision making. Journal of Environmental Management.
  • Jaeger, C. , Schellnhuber, H.J. and Brovkin, V (2008) Stern’s Review and Adam’s fallacy. Climatic Change 89(3/4) pp 207-218. DOI 10.1007/s10584-008-9436-7
  • Schellnhuber, H. J. (2008) Global warming: Stop worrying, start panicking? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
  • Warren, R., de la Nava Santos, S., Arnell, N.W., Bane, M., Barker, T., Barton, C., Ford, R., Füssel, H.-M., Hankin, R.K.S., Klein, R., Linstead, C., Kohler, J., Mitchell, T.D., Osborn, T.J., Pan, H., Raper, S.C.B., Riley, G., Schellnhuber, H.J., Winne, S., Anderson, D. (2008). Development and Illustrative Outputs of the Community Integrated Assessment System (CIAS), a Multi-Institutional Modular Integrated Assessment Approach for Modelling Climate Change. Environmental Modelling & Software 23, 592
  • Lenton, T.M., Held, H., Kriegler, E., Hall, J.W., Lucht, W., Rahmstorf, S. and Schellnhuber, H.J. (2008).Tipping Elements in the Earth’s Climate System. PNAS 105, 1786
  • Kriegler, E., Hall, J., Dawson, R., Held, H., and Schellnhuber, H.J. (2008) Imprecise Probability of Crossing Tipping Points in the Earth System Elicited from Experts. PNAS, submitted
  • Schellnhuber, H.J.und Reusswig, F. (2008). Was kann Architektur für das Klima tun? In Der Entwurf – Sonderheft der DBZ Deutsche Bauzeitschrift, April, 18
  • Schellnhuber, H.J. (2008). Global denken, in Brandenburg handeln. In Perspektiven 21, Heft 37
  • Schubert, R., Schellnhuber, H.J. et al. (2008). Climate Change as a Security Risk. Earthscan, London
  • Jaeger, C.C., Schellnhuber, H. J., Brovkin, V. (2008). Stern's Review and Adam's Fallacy. Climatic Change, Special Issue on the "Stern Review and its Critics", DOI 10.1007/s10584-008-9436-7
  • Schroeder, H. "The Evolution of Multilevel Climate Policy under the Kyoto Protocol in the United States: Implementation without Ratification" (in review)
  • Okereke, C., H. Bulkeley, and H. Schroeder(2009), "Conceptualizing Climate Change beyond the International Regime", Global Environmental Politics 9, 1 (in press)
  • Schroeder, H., L.A. King, and S. Tay (2008), "Contributing to the Science-Policy Interface: Policy Relevance of IDGEC Findings," in: O.R. Young, L.A. King, and H. Schroeder (eds.), Institutions and Environmental Change: Principal Findings, Applications, and Research Frontiers, MIT Press (forthcoming).
  • Young, O.R., L.A. King, and H. Schroeder, eds.(2008), Institutions and Environmental Change: Principal Findings, Applications, and Research Frontiers, MIT Press (forthcoming).
  • Schroeder, H., L.A. King, and S. Tay (2008), "Contributing to the Science-Policy Interface: Policy Relevance of Findings on the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change," in: O.R. Young, L.A. King, and H. Schroeder (eds.), Institutions and Environmental Change: Principal Findings, Applications, and Research Frontiers, MIT Press (forthcoming October).
  • Young, O., King, L.A., and Schroeder, H. 2008. Institutions and Environmental Change: Principal Findings, Applications, and Research Frontiers. MIT Press. In press.
  • Schroeder, H.(2008), "Analyzing Biosafety and Trade through the Lens of Institutional Interplay," in: O.R. Young, W.B. Chambers, J.A. Kim, and C. ten Have (eds.) Institutional Interplay: The Case of Biosafety, UNU Press.
  • Schroeder, H.(2008), "Analyzing Biosafety and Trade through the Lens of Institutional Interplay," in: O.R. Young, W.B. Chambers, J.A. Kim, and C. ten Have (eds.) Institutional Interplay: The Case of Biosafety, UNU Press.
  • Strickland, D. and Schroeder, H. (2008) Climate governance beyond the nation state:how business, the arts, and cities are responding to climate change. Linacre Lecture Summaries 2008.

Tropical Forestry

  • Malhi, Y., Betts, R. and Roberts, T. (Eds) (2008) ‘Climate change and the fate of the Amazon’ compiled by Yadvinder Malhi, Richard Betts and Timmons Roberts. Special Issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Volume 363, Number 1498 / May 27 2008.
  • Malhi, Y., Roberts, J.T., Betts, R.A., Killeen, T.J. and Nobre, C.A. (2008) Climate change, deforestation and the fate of the Amazon, Science, 319, 169-172
  • Malhi, Y., Roberts, J.T., Betts, R.A. Climate Change and the Fate of the Amazon, Thematic Issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society – Biological Sciences, 363, 1727-1932
  • Malhi, Y. and Roman Cuesta, R.M. Analysis of lacunarity and scales of spatial homogeneity in IKONOS satellite images of tropical forest canopies (2008), Remote Sensing of the Environment, 112, 2074-2087
  • Malhi, Y. et al. Comprehensive assessment of carbon allocation, cycling and storage in three Amazonian forests, accepted, Global Change Biology
  • Malhi Y, Aragão, LEO, Fisher RA, Galbraith D, Huntingford C, McSweeney C., New M., Sitch S., Zelazowski P., A tipping point in the Amazon? Exploring the likelihood and mechanism of a climate-change induced dieback of the Amazon rainforest, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, invited paper, submitted April 2008.
  • Betts, R.A., Malhi, Y, Roberts, J.T. The future of the Amazon: new perspectives from climate, ecosystem and social sciences, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B, 363, 1737-1746
  • Huntingford, C. et al (inc. Malhi Y) Towards quantifying uncertainty in predictions of Amazon "dieback", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B, 363, 1857-1864.
  • Butt, N., Malhi, Y., Phillips, O.L., New, M., Floristic affiliations with climate in the western Amazon (in press, Journal of Biogeography 35, 939-950.
  • Metcalfe1, D. Meir1, P., Aragão, L.E.O.C., da Costa, A.C.L., Braga,A.P., Gonçalves, P.H.L., de Athaydes Silva Junior, J., de Almeida5, S.S., Dawson, L.A., Malhi, Y. and Williams, M. (2008) The effects of water availability on root growth and morphology in an Amazon rainforest. Plant and Soil. Vol 311, No.1-2 (189-199).
  • Aragão, L.E.O.C. Malhi, Y., Barbier N., Lima A, Shimabukuro Y., Anderson L. and Saatchi S. (2008) Interactions between rainfall, deforestation and fires during recent years in Brazilian Amazonia, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society – Biological Sciences, 363, 1779-1985
  • Metcalfe, D., Meir, P; Aragão, L.E.O.C.; da Costa, A.; Almeida, S.; Braga, A.; Goncalves, P. , Athaydes, J. , Malhi, Y., Williams, M. (2008) Sample sizes for estimating key ecosystem characteristics in a tropical terra firme rainforest, Forest Ecology and Management, 255, 558-566

Global Environmental Change

  • Liverman, D.M. and Roman Cuesta R.M. (in press) Human interactions with the Earth system: People and pixels revisited. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms (Special Issue on Earth System Science)
  • Liverman, D.M. (in press) Conventions of Climate Change: Constructoins of danger and the dispossession of the atmosphere. Journal of Historical Geography.
  • Ericksen, P.J. 2008. What is the vulnerability of a food system to global environmental change? Ecology and Society 13(2):14.
  • Ericksen, P. J. 2008. Conceptualizing food systems for global environmental change research. Global Environmental Change 18:234-245.
  • Ingram JSI, PJ Gregory and A-M Izac. 2008. The role of agronomic research in climate change and food security policy. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 126, 4–12
  • Gregory PJ and JSI Ingram. 2008. Climate Change and Food Security (Inside Agriculture; accepted)
  • Ingram JSI, J Stone, U Confalonieri, T Garvin, P Jutro, C Klink, B Luckman, E Noellemeyer, P Mann de Toledo. 2007. Delivering Global Environmental Change Science to the Policy Process. IAI-SCOPE Synthesis. In: Eds: H Tieseen, M Brklacich, G Breulmann and R Menezas (Eds). Communicating Global Change Science to Society. pp 35-44. Island Press.
  • GECAFS (2008). GECAFS Indo-Gangetic Plain Science Plan and Implementation Strategy. GECAFS Report No 5. 35 pp. Oxford. [Ingram JSI Convenor and Editor]

Climate Science

  • Dave Frame and Myles Allen, Climate Change and Global Risk, Chapter in Global Catastrophic Risks, N. Bostrom and M. Cirkovic eds. Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2008.
  • Steynor, A. and Street, R. (2008) Projections of climate change. In: Managing climate risk. (Ed: A. Jolly). Thorogood, London.
  • Street, R. (2008) Projecting the UK's changing climate. Conservation Bulletin, Issue 57: p3-5.

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