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Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction and Overview: 1 Thinking through the Climate Change Challenge ; Part I: Getting Nations to Work Together ; 2 Norms, Conventions, and Institutions to Cope with Climate Change ; 3 Credible Commitments, Focal Points, and Tipping: The Strategy of Climate Treaty Design ; 4 Tipping Climate Negotiations ; 5 Bridging Reality and the Theory of International Environmental Agreements ; 6 The Cost of Ambiguity and Robustness in International Pollution Control ; Part II: Ethical and Distributional Concerns ; 7 Time and the Generations ; 8 Discounting While Treating Generations Equally ; 9 Emerging Markets and Climate Change: Mexican Standoff or Low-carbon Race? ; Part III: Approaches to Designing More Efficient Policies ; 10. Moving US Climate Policy Forward: Are Carbon Taxes the Only Good Alternative? ; 11 Carbon Taxes and the Green Paradox ; 12 Derivative Markets for Pollution Permits and Incentives to Innovate ; 13 Development and Climate Adaptation ; 14 Schelling's Conjecture on Climate and Development: A Test

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Chapter I Thomas Schelling and His Signature Course on Strategic Thinking ; Part One: The Schelling Approach to Strategic Thinking and Decision-Making ; Chapter 2 Introduction to Strategic Thought ; Chapter 3 Vicarious ThinkingChapter ; 4 Game Theory ; Chapter 5 The Two-By-Two Matrix ; Part Two: Strategies and Tactics ; Chapter 6 Strategies Defined and Illustrated ; Chapter 7 Tactics ; Chapter 8 Self-Command ; Part Three: Models as Metaphors For What Decisions Do ; Chapter 9 Interaction Models ; Chapter 10 The Dollar Auction ; Chapter 11 Musical Chairs and Inescapable Mathematics ; Part Four: The Prisoner's Dilemma, Competition and Cooperation ; Chapter 12 The Prisoner's Dilemma ; Chapter 13 Cooperation ; Chapter 14 Coordination ; Part Five: Individual Decisions and Group Agreement ; Chapter 15 Collective Choice and Voting ; Chapter 16 The Commons and Fair Division ; Chapter 17 Case Study, Overcoming Professional Basketball's Commons Dilemma:The Phil Jackson Story ; Part Six: Decisions that Mix and Sort Populations, Decisions Based onRandomization ; Chapter 18 Critical Mass and Tipping ; Chapter 19 Individual Decisions and Group Outcomes ; Chapter 20 Randomization in Decision-Making ; Part Seven: Case Study and Review ; Chapter 21 Case Study, The Cuban Missile Crisis: Analysis and Review ; Index

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Forewords ; Part I Introduction ; 1 Introduction ; Part II Climate Change, Human Security, Societal Stability, and Violent Conflict: Empirical and Theoretical Linkages ; 2 On Environmental Change and Armed Conflict ; 3 Climate Change, Societal Stability, and the SID Project ; 4 Climate Change, Conflict, and Fragility: Getting the Institutions Right ; 5 Theories and Models of Climate-Security Interaction: Framework and Application to a Climate Hot Spot in North Africa ; 6 Global Climate Policy Reinforces Local Social Path-Dependent Structures: More Conflict in the World? ; Part III Climate Change and the Securitization Discourse ; 7 Climate Change and the Environmental Conflict Discourse ; 8 Climate Change as a Driver of Security Policy ; 9 From "Securitization" of Climate Change to "Climatization" of the Security Field: Comparing Three Theoretical Perspectives ; 10 Critical Deconstruction of Environmental Security and Human Security Concepts in the Anthropocene ; 11 Political in Nature: The Conflict-fuelling Character of International Climate Policies ; 12 Security as a Weapon: How Cataclysm Discourses Frame International Climate Negotiations ; 13 Audience: A Weak Link in the Securitization of the Environment? ; 14 Words, Visuals, and the Vanished Enemy: Visual Securitization and the COP15 Opening Film ; Part IV Climate Change and Migration ; 15 Climate Change and Human Migration: Towards a Global Governance System to Protect Climate Refugees ; 16 "Climate Refugees" as Dawning Catastrophe? A Critique of the Dominant ; Quest for Numbers ; 17 Environmentally-Forced Migration in Rural Areas: Security Risks and Threats in Mexico ; 18 Policing Borders in a Time of Rapid Climate Change ; Part V Climate Change and Security in the Middle East ; 19 Climate Change on the Arabian Peninsula - Regional Security,Sustainability Strategies, and Research Needs ; 20 Environmental Degradation, Climate Uncertainties, and HumanVulnerabilities: Realm of Possible Actions toward a Shifting Security Paradigm in the Arab Gulf Monarchies ; 21 Altering Security Dynamics? Climate Change Impacts on Iraq ; 22 Nothing New in the Middle East - Reality and Discourses of Climate Change in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict ; Part VI Climate Change and Security in Africa ; 23 Locating Climate Insecurity: Where Are the Most Vulnerable Places in Africa? ; 24 Climate Change, Resource Competition, and Conflict amongst Pastoral Communities in Kenya ; 25 Climate Change and Violent Conflicts in Nigeria: Human Needs and Relative Deprivation Theories ; 26 Enhancing Security and Resilience of Low-Income Communities to Climate Change in Growing Cities: An Assessment of Flood Management and Planning Regimes in Kampala City, Uganda ; 27 Malnutrition and Conflict in Eastern Africa: Impacts of Resource Variability on Human Security ; Part VII Climate Change and Security in Asia and the Pacific ; 28 Climate Awareness and Adaptation Efficacy for Livelihood Security against Sea Level Rise in Coastal Bangladesh ; 29 Security Implications of Climate Refugees in Urban Slums: A Case Study from Dhaka, Bangladesh ; 30 A Psychological Perspective on Climate Stress in Coastal India ; 31 Routine Violence in Java, Indonesia: Neo-Malthusian and Social Justice Perspectives ; 32 Territorial Integrity and Sovereignty: Climate Change and Security in the Pacific and Beyond ; Part VIII Improving Climate Security: Cooperative Policies and Capacity-Building ; 33 Securitization of Climate Change in the United Nations 2007-2010 ; 34 Climate Change, Peacekeeping, and Perspectives for UN Reform ; 35 International Climate Change Policies: The Potential Relevance of REDD+ For Peace and Stability ; 36 The Role of Information Systems in Improving Resilience and Security through Innovation-Oriented Capacity Building ; 37 Policy Responses to Climate Change in the Mediterranean and MENA Region during the Anthropocene ; Part IX Conclusions and Outlook ; 38 Conclusions and Outlook: Research Results and Research Needs

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Einleitung ; 1. Aus der Klimageschichte lernen ; 2. Die globale Erwärmung ; 3. Die Folgen des Klimawandels ; 4. Klimawandel in der öffentlichen Diskussion ; 5. Die Lösung des Klimaproblems ; Epilog: Der Geist in der Flasche

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Chapter 1. The Physics and Ethics of Inequality ; Chapter 2. The Need for New Inequality Measures ; Chapter 3: Pay Inequality and World Development ; Chapter 4. Estimating the Inequality of Household Incomes ; Chapter 5. Economic Inequality and Political Regimes ; Chapter 6. The Geography of Inequality in America, 1969 to 2007 ; Chapter 7: State-Level Income Inequality and American Elections ; Chapter 8. Inequality and Unemployment in Europe: A Question of Levels ; Chapter 9. European Wages and the Flexibility Thesis ; Chapter 10: Globalization and Inequality in China ; Chapter 11. Finance and Power in Argentina and Brazil ; Chapter 12. Inequality in Cuba After the Soviet Collapse ; Chapter 13: Economic Inequality and the World Crisis