Learning to Manage Global Environmental Risks, Vol. 1: A Comparative History of Social Responses to Climate Change, Ozone Depletion, and Acid Rain (Politics, Science, and the Environment)

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This long-awaited two-volume book examines how the interplay of ideas and actions applied to environmental problems has laid the foundations for global environmental management. It looks at how ideas, interests, and institutions affect management practice; how management capabilities in other areas affect the ability to deal with specific environmental issues; and how learning affects society's approach to the global environment.

The book focuses on efforts to deal with climate change, ozone depletion, and acid rain from 1957 (The International Geophysical Year) through 1992 (the UN Conference on Environment and Development). The settings include Canada, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, the former Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, and international environmental organizations. Topics include problem framing, agenda setting, issue attention, risk assessment, monitoring, option assessment, goal and strategy formulation, implementation, and evaluation. Volume 1 provides an overview of the project, of global environmental management in general, and of the three central environmental issues studied; it also contains the individual country studies. Volume 2 contains the management function studies and the book's conclusion.

Authors in the set include: Jeannine Cavender-Bares, William C. Clark, Ellis Cowling, Nancy M. Dickson, Gerda Dinkelman, Rodney Dobell, Renate Ell, Adam Fenech, Alexander Ginzburg, Elena Goncharova, Peter Haas, Eva Hizsnyik, Michael Huber, Peter Hughes, Jill Jäger, Marc Levy, Angela Liberatore, Diana Liverman, Justin Longo, David McCabe, Donald Munton, Elena Nikitina, Karen O'Brien, Edward Parson, Vladimir Pisarev, Ruud Pleune, Miranda Schreurs, Simon Shackley, Peter Simmons, Heather Smith, Vassily Sokolov, Ferenc L. Tóth, Jeroen van der Sluijs, Josee van Eijndhoven, Claire Waterton, Cor Worrell, and Brian Wynne.

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Trashing the Planet: How Science Can Help Us Deal With Acid Rain, Depletion of the Ozone, and Nuclear Waste (Among Other Things)

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no science in the book, propaganda of large corporations
An impossible task
Insightful, Common Sense Book
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Trashing the Planet: How Science Can Help Us Deal With Acid Rain, Depletion of the Ozone, and Nuclear Waste (Among Other Things)
Dixy Lee Ray , and Lou Guzzo
Manufacturer: Regnery Publishing, Inc.
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ASIN: 0895265443

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Dixy Lee Ray's prescription is a sound one. --The Wall Street Journal

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Required Reading!.......2006-05-26

I keep this book handy to educate clueless people who just listen to the "news" each night.
It is loaded with earth facts, and dispells the popular myths of today, that man has the power to change the climate.
We don't.
We are arrogant for thinking we can. The environmmental movement if a home for Socialists, just follow the money.
But this book and prepare to be angered by how manipulated you have been. You are taxed to death for the "environmental good" that has no meaning. What dopes we all are.

no science in the book, propaganda of large corporations.......2005-07-21

This books has no science behind it and is basically a screed against environmental action of any sort.

I would reccommend as a great book The Future of Life by Dr. Edward O. Wilson, the Pellegrino University Research Professor at Harvard University, who has been recognized by many as an authority on the Environment, and has put together an excellent, very readable book, without hype, but clear lucid Science, thoughtfully presented.

An impossible task.......2003-05-13

The review of this book states that the authors claim that "nuclear power is a safe and cheap source of energy; that acid rain is a vastly exaggerated problem; that chemical pesticides are not as dangerous as they have been made out to be; and that worry over the ozone hole is just an environmental scare tactic". To even attempt to claim these assertions as fact in a book of 206 pages (that don't source refernces for information!) is completely rediculous.

Insightful, Common Sense Book.......2002-06-05

Read this book if you want to look at environmental issues from common sense standpoints rather than from standpoints of people preaching gloom and doom!

Insightful, Common Sense Book.......2002-06-05

Read this book if you want to look at environmental issues from common sense standpoints rather than from standpoints of people preaching gloom and doom!

Markets for Clean Air: The U.S. Acid Rain Program

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Markets for Clean Air: The U.S. Acid Rain Program
A. Denny Ellerman , Paul L. Joskow , Juan-Pablo Montero , Richard Schmalensee , Elizabeth M. Bailey , and Paul L. Joskow
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ASIN: 0521660831

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Markets for Clean Air provides a comprehensive, in-depth description and evaluation of the first three years' experience with the U.S. Acid Rain Program. This environmental control program is the world's first large-scale use of a tradable emission permit system for achieving environmental goals. The book analyzes the behavior and performance of the market for emissions permits, called allowances in the Acid Rain Program, and quantifies emission reductions, compliance costs, and cost savings associated with the trading program. The book also includes chapters on the historical context in which this pioneering program developed and the political economy of allowance allocations.

Global Climate Change Linkages: Acid Rain, Air Quality, and Stratospheric Ozone

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Global Climate Change Linkages: Acid Rain, Air Quality, and Stratospheric Ozone

Manufacturer: Elsevier
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Green Truth or Consequences
Taking advantage of your ignorance...
Trashing the Enviornmental Zealots
The truth about mankind and the environment
Finally! A Scientist Using the Scientific Method!

Trashing the Planet: How Science Can Help Us Deal With Acid Rain, Depletion of the Ozone, and Nuclear Waste (Among Other Things)
Dixy Lee Ray , and Louis R. Guzzo
Manufacturer: Perennial
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Green Truth or Consequences.......2005-10-11

A good number of environmentatlists lie big and lie often. If more effort was made understanding the dynamics of our environment, and less effort was made in fabricating hyperbole, the world would truly be a better place.

This book details a number of the "big lies" that have been and still are being told about the environment.

Science should not be agenda driven, nor should public institutions cave to pseudoscience presented as fact.

Taking advantage of your ignorance..........2003-11-21

Come on, people! Simply put, believing Dixy Lee Ray's conclusions is like thinking professional wrestling is real. Through a series of half-truths, bad science, and a willful misrepresentation of atmospheric chemistry, Ray makes the case that global warming isn't happening, acid rain isn't real, and that pesticides really aren't all that dangerous...all in 200 odd pages! Well, at least she doesn't include any meaningful footnotes or references to hinder the readability of her text. Don't be fooled by this piece of pro-business, pro-corporate, irresponsible propaganda. If you're really interested in this sort of thing, head on down to your local college or community college and sign up for an introduction to geology class. Just about anywhere you go (with the possible exception of Bob Jones University), you'll find that what much of what Ray proposes isn't taken the least bit seriously by any scientist in any field. Ray knew that if you're buying this book, let alone reading it all the way through--that you really don't know that much about geology or atmospheric science, and even less about the whole concept of backing up your work with foot notes, end notes, and peer review-and that you will just go along with it. "Why would she make THIS up" you ask? Well, by getting you to go along with weakening or elimination of environmental regulation, huge polluters stand to make BILLIONS off of your land, your water, and your air. Go back to sleep, America, The Corporation is in control.

Trashing the Enviornmental Zealots.......2002-02-12

I first came across this book in 1994 when I was a liberal leaning college student concerned with the environment. I am now a conservative college graduate concerned with the environment, and this book had much to do with my transformation. Dixy Lee Ray is a breath of fresh air speaking on a subject many of us are ill-informed on.

If you are concerned with the environment, you will find much in this book that interests you (as long as you can handle truth). Miss Ray debunks much of the dogma the enviro-nazis shove down the publics throat. She takes on the issues of global warming, ozone depletion, nuclear medicine, acid rain and others. Using scientific methods (something the leftist leaning environmental zealots ignore because they fear the outcome of true scientific discovery) she intelligently and unemotionally discusses how water is naturally acidic; the benefits of x-rays and other advances in radiation therapy; the benefits of pesticides in our ability to grow more food using less labor and land.

Throughout her book Ray uses the statistics and predictions of the environmental movement's leaders against them to show how out of touch with reality and normal society they are. A Stanford University Biologist, Paul Ehrlich is quoted as predicting global famine in 1985 and a shrinking of the US population from 250 million to 22.5 million by 1999. Here is another quote, "Paul Watson, founder of Greenpeace: 'I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds.'"

The list goes on and on. The best part of the book is the final chapter, in which Ray presents a sound and logical formula for having both a clean environment and a technologically advanced society. This book should be read by all high school seniors so they can understand the truth about the environment rather than the dogma they are spoon feed in public schools and the liberal media.

The truth about mankind and the environment.......2001-04-09

I have read Trashing the Planet by Dr. Dixie Lee Ray several times. This book should be required reading for introductory classes on the environment in both high school and college - however, that will never happen. The leftist environmental movement does not want anyone to read this book - it is concise, well researched, thoroughly footnoted, and, I feel, gives an accurate report on the status of humans and their impact on the environment. I recently sent copies of this book to President George W. Bush and Bill O'Reilly of Fox News to help them understand what they are up against.

Finally! A Scientist Using the Scientific Method!.......1998-06-09

It's about time someone spoke the truth about what really motivates the environmental movement: money. It has nothing to do with any real danger to plants, animals, the earth, or the human race. The lies Ray exposes are atrocious, and the truth is so poignant that one can't help but be astonished that anyone actually believes we are in any danger. The evidence provided here goes to show how little people mean to the environmental whackos who perpetuate this arrogant, anti-human campaign of scare tactics and other subterfuge. Anyone who is scared of losing this planet can rest assured after reading this book.

Acid Rain (Great Explorations in Math and Science)

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Acid Rain (Great Explorations in Math and Science)
Colin Hocking
Manufacturer: Great Explorations
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yippy skippy.......2000-02-28

this is the bestest wittle bookie ookie in the the whole wide world. yes it is, yes, good wittle bookie ookie.

I thought it was a awesome book.......1999-10-06

I thought this book was really good it helped me learn all about the causes and effects of acid rain.

Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols 2000: 15th International Conference, Rolla, Missouri, USA, 6-11 August 2000 (AIP Conference Proceedings)

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Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols 2000: 15th International Conference, Rolla, Missouri, USA, 6-11 August 2000 (AIP Conference Proceedings)

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ASIN: 1563969580

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Conference attendees from about 30 countries met to present research results and discuss current issues in the fields of topospheric and stratospheric aerosols and nucleation phenomena. Specifically addressed are aerosol and nucleation mechanisms affecting ice formation, cloud droplet formation and growth, aerosol-cloud interactions, and aerosol related global warming and ozone depletion mechanisms as well as acid rain production and pollution of the earth's atmosphere. The nucleation symposium part of this conference addresses all theoretical and experimental aspects of single and multi-component nucleation, ion induced nucleation and heterogeneous nucleation involving foreign particulates. The conference attracts leading scientists in the aerosol and nucleation communities and the Proceedings provides a technical summary of the current status of research.

Environmental Awareness: Acid Rain (Environmental Awareness)

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Environmental Awareness: Acid Rain (Environmental Awareness)
Mary Ellen Snodgrass , Jody James , and Janet Wolanin
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Acid Rain (Our Planet in Peril)

ASIN: 0944280307

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This book addresses the ever-growing environmental problem of acid rain. Readers learn about the cause and effect of this issue and how they can help in waste reduction and all anti-pollution and conservation efforts.

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This book is the result of a conference held biannually at the Goodwin-Niering Center for Conservation Biology and Environmental Studies at Connecticut College. It uses an interdisciplinary approach to focus on important ecological impacts of acid deposition, the transboundary nature of the pollutants that cause acid rain, and domestic and international policies designed to reduce the emission of these pollutants. The book combines research findings and the policy analyses of experts from different academic disciplines with the positions advanced by representatives of various nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Because the volume explores many aspects of the acid rain issue, it will be of interest to a diverse audience that includes researchers, students, concerned citizens, policy analysts, and members of NGOs and government agencies who could use the text as background for discussion pertaining to the science and policy of acid deposition.

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Acid Rain (Our Planet in Peril)
Louise Petheram
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