Climate change trends and governance: History, contradictions and prospects

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Climate change trends and governance: History, contradictions and prospects

The objective of this chapter is to critically analyze climate change policy and governance. Drawing on the history of climate change anomalies and processes we examine why there is a gap between knowledge and action. This “gap” hypothesis postulates that a number of contradictions led policy and pr...

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Main Author:	O'Hara, Phillip
Other Authors:	Miguel-Angel Galindo Martin
Format:	Book Chapter
Published:	Nova Science Publishers, Inc. 2010
Subjects:	history contradictions policy climate change
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/44031

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