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Climate Change in the South Pacific: Impacts and Responses in Australia, New Zealand, and Small Island States

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Editors:
  1. Alexander Gillespie

    1. University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

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  2. William C. G. Burns

    1. Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security, Oakland, USA

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Part of the book series: Advances in Global Change Research (AGLO, volume 2)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Alexander Gillespie, William C. G. Burns
    Pages 1-5

  3. The Potential Impacts of Climate Change

    • R. N. Jones, A. B. Pittock, P. H. Whetton
    Pages 7-32

  4. The Formation of Australian Climate Change Policy: 1985–1995

    • Harriet Bulkeley
    Pages 33-50

  5. Climate Change Policies in Australia

    • Clive Hamilton
    Pages 51-77

  6. A Critique of the Australian Government’s Greenhouse Policies

    • Mark Diesendorf
    Pages 79-93

  7. Climate Change Policy Formation in Australia: 1995–1998

    • R. Taplin, X. Yu
    Pages 95-112

  8. The Australian Position at the Kyoto Conference

    • X. Yu, R. Taplin
    Pages 113-119

  9. The Impacts of Climate Change on New Zealand

    • Reid E. Basher
    Pages 121-142

  10. New Zealand Climate Policy Between 1990 and 1996: A Greenpeace Perspective

    • Kirsty Hamilton
    Pages 143-163

  11. New Zealand and The Climate Change Debate: 1995–1998

    • Alexander Gillespie
    Pages 165-187

  12. The Role of Carbon Sequestration as a Response Strategy to Global Warming, with a Particular Focus on New Zealand

    • J. B. Ford-Robertson, J. P. Maclaren, S. J. Wakelin
    Pages 189-207

  13. Joint Implementation: A Survey of Principles and Practical Issues

    • Peter Alsop
    Pages 209-231

  14. The Impact of Climate Change on Pacific Island Developing Countries in the 21st Century

    • William C. G. Burns
    Pages 233-250

  15. Parochialism and Empowerment: Responding to Ecocolonialism and Globalisation in the Southwest Pacific

    • Michael Edwards
    Pages 251-268

  16. Climate Change in the Pacific: Science-Based Information and Understanding

    • John Hay
    Pages 269-287

  17. How South Pacific Mangroves May Respond to Predicted Climate Change and Sea-level Rise

    • Joanna C. Ellison
    Pages 289-300

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 375-387
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About this book

ALEXANDER GILLESPIE & WILLIAM C.G. BURNS The idea for this book grew out of the Ecopolitics conference in Canberra, Australia in 1996. The conference captured the ferment of the climate change debate in the South Pacific, as well as some its potential implications for the region’s inhabitants and e- systems. At that conference, one of the editors (Gillespie) delivered a paper on climate change issues in the region, as did Ros Taplin and Mark Diesendorf, who are also c- tributors to this volume. This book focuses on climate change issues in Australia, New Zealand, and the small island nations in the Pacific as the world struggles to cope with possible the impacts of environmental change and to formulate effective responses. While Australia and New Zealand’s per capita emissions of greenhouse gases are among the highest in the world, their aggregate contributions are small. However, both nations may exert a disprop- tionate influence in the global greenhouse debate because their obstinate positions at recent conferences of the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on C- mate Change (FCCC) may provide justification for other developed nations, as well as developing countries, to refuse to make meaningful reductions in their greenhouse gas emissions.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

    Alexander Gillespie

  • Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security, Oakland, USA

    William C. G. Burns

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Climate Change in the South Pacific: Impacts and Responses in Australia, New Zealand, and Small Island States

  • Editors: Alexander Gillespie, William C. G. Burns

  • Series Title: Advances in Global Change Research

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47981-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6077-3Published: 30 November 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5365-7Published: 22 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-306-47981-6Published: 11 April 2006

  • Series ISSN: 1574-0919

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1621

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 388

  • Topics: Atmospheric Sciences, Climate Change, Ecology, Environmental Management

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