Crucial Issues In Climate Change And The Kyoto Protocol: Asia And The World

Crucial Issues in Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol: Asia and the World focuses on responses to climate change in the world's most populous region. This book provides the most comprehensive insight to the climate change discourse within Asia to date by drawing on the diverse disciplines and experience of legal practitioners, climate change consultants, government officials and academics. Individual chapters address issues such as how the various Asian countries highly disparate in their cultures, socio-economic conditions and political systems are responding to climate change, the challenges of mitigating and adapting to climate change, and the effective implementation of the Kyoto Protocol in Asia.

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• Authors: Koh Kheng-Lian
• Assisted by: Kheng Lian Koh (Editor), Koh Kheng-Lian (Editor), Kheng Lian Koh (Editor), Jolene Lin (Editor), Lin Heng Lye (Editor), Lin Jolene (Editor), Lye Lin-Heng (Editor), Irene Lin Lye (Editor), Irene Lin-Heng Lye (Editor), Lin Heng Lye (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2009
• EAN: 9789814277525
• ISBN: 978-981-4277-52-5
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Natural science; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Climate Change, NATURE / Ecology, Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Social impact of environmental issues