Part 9: The pattern and pace of climate change

General

• Association of American Geographers GCLP Research Team (author) and Ronald F. Abler (ed). Global Change and Local Places: Estimating, Understanding and Reducing Greenhouse Gases, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 0521809509
• Matthias Ruth, Kieran Donaghy, Paul Kirshen (eds). Regional Climate Change and Variability: Impacts and Responses, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006, 1845425995
• Robert T. Watson, Marafu C. Zinyowera, Richard H. Moss. The Regional Impacts of Climate Change: An Assessment of Vulnerability, Cambridge University Press, 2001, 0521634555

Africa

• A. J. Dietz, R Ruben and A. Verhagen (eds.). The Impact of Climate Change on Drylands with a Focus on West Africa, Springer, 2004, 1402019521
• Pak Sum Low (ed). Climate Change and Africa, Cambridge University Press, 2005, 0521029953
• Bereket Kebede and Ikhupuleng Dube (eds.). Energy Services for the Urban Poor in Africa, Zed Books, 2004, 1842775588

Alaska

• Charles P. Wohlforth. The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change [Alaska], North Point Press/ Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, US, hardback 2004, 0865476594

Antarctica

• Meredith Hooper. The Ferocious Summer: Palmer’s Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica, Profile Books, 2007, 9781846680083 (hbk)

Arctic

• Michael Bravo and Sverker Sorlin. Narrating the Arctic: A Cultural History of Nordic Scientific Practices, Science History Publications, 2002, 9780881353853

Asia

• Paul G. Harris. Confronting Environmental Change in East and Southeast Asia: Eco-politics, Foreign Policy, and Sustainable Development, United Nations University Press, 2005, 1853839728
• Monirul Qader Mirza and Q. K. Ahmad (eds). Climate Change and Water Resources in South Asia, Taylor & Francis, 2005, 0415364426
• Erica Weinthal. State Making and Environmental Cooperation: Linking Domestic and International Politics in Central Asia, The MIT Press, 2001, 0262731460
• Schwartz, Daniel. Delta: the perils, profits and politics of water in South and Southeast Asia. London: Thames and Hudson, 2004 0500284911

Australia

• Tim F. Flannery. The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australian Lands and People, Grove Press, 2002, 0730104877
• Ann Young. Environmental Change in Australia since 1788, Oxford University Press, USA, 2nd edition, 2000, 0195512928

Bangladesh

• Saleemul Huq, Z. Karim, M. Asaduzzaman, F. Mahtab (eds). Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change for Bangladesh, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998, 0792355369

China

• Richard Louis Edmonds. Managing the Chinese Environment, Oxford University Press, 2000, 0198296355
• Mark Elvin. The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China, Yale University Press, 0300119933
• James Kynge. China Shakes the World: The Rise of a Hungry Nation, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Orion, 2006, 0753821559
• National Geographic. Atlas of China, National Geographic, 2007, 9781426201363 (hbk)
• Samuel Turvey. Witness to Extinction: How We failed to Save the Yangtze River Dolphin, Oxford University Press, 2007, 9780199549474

Ecuador, the city of Guayacil

• Erik Swyngedouw. Social Power and the Urbanization of Water: Flows of Power (Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies Series), Oxford University Press, USA, 2004, 0198233914

India

• Michael A. Toman, Ujjayant Chakravorty and Shreekant Gupta (eds). India and Global Climate Change: Perspectives on Economics and Policy from a Developing Country, RFF Press, US, 1891853619
• P. R. Shukla and S. Sharma. Climate Change and India: Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation, Universities Press, India, 2004, 8173714711

Ireland

• Rosemary Charlton, Mike Jones and Alison Donnelly. Climate Change: Scenarios and Impacts for Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, Eire, 2003, 184095115X

Malaysia

• K. S. Jomo, Y. T. Chang and K. J. Khoo. Deforesting Malaysia: The Political Economy and Social Ecology of Agricultural Expansion and Commercial Logging, Zed Books, 2006, 9781842774663 (hbk)

Pakistan

Philippines

• Robin Broad, John Cavanagh. Plundering Paradise: The Struggle for the Environment in the Philippines, University of California Press, reprint edition 1994, 0520089219

Polar regions

• Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA). Scientific Report, Cambridge University Press, 2005, 0521865093
• R. Bargagli. Antarctic Ecosystems: Environmental Contamination, Climate Change and Human Impact, Springer, 2004, 3540220917
• Andrew Revkin. The North Pole Was Here: Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World, Kingfisher, 2006, 0753413299
• Galen Rowell. Poles Apart: Parallel Versions of the Arctic and Antarctic, University of California Press, 1997, 0520209028
• Vera D. Alexandrovna (author) and Doris Love (translator). Vegetation of the Soviet Polar Deserts (Studies in Polar Research series), Cambridge University Press, 2009, 9780521100052

South Africa

• Leonie Joubert. Scorched: South Africa's Changing Climate, Wits University Press, 2006, 1868144372

South Pacific

• Jon Barnett and John Campbell: Climate change and small island states: power, knowledge and the South Pacific, Earthscan, 2010 9781844074945

Sweden

• Lars Bergman and Marian Radetzki. The Continue Project: Global Climate Policy and Implications for the Energy Sector in a Small Open Economy : The Case of Sweden, Multi Science Publishing Co, 2003, 090652220X

Switzerland

• M. Beniston. Climatic Change and its Impacts: An Overview Focusing on Switzerland, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004, 1402023456

Tanzania

• Mark Mwandosya, Buruhani Nyenzi and Mathew Luhanga. The Assessment of Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change Impacts in Tanzania, Centre for Energy, Environment, Science and Technology, 1999, 9987612113

United States

• Robert Mendelsohn and James E. Neumann (eds.). The Impact of Climate Change on the United States Economy, Cambridge University Press, new edition, 2004, 0521607698
• National Assessment Synthesis Team. Climate Change Impacts on the United States, Cambridge University Press, 2001, 0521000742
• Richard Manning. Grassland: The History, Biology, Politics and Promise of the American Prairie, Penguin, 1997, 9780140233889

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