UNDERSTANDING THE GLOBAL SYSTEM
THE FINNISH PERSPECTIVE

Edited by Jukka Käyhkö and Linda Talve

 

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Table of contents

Preface

Human rights, justice and the global change

Modelling past global change - forecasting the future

The FINSKEN global change scenarios

Climate-biosphere interactions (CORE)

Agricultural soils as a sink and source of greenhouse gases: A research consortium (AGROGAS)

Carbon and nitrogen storages and fluxes in Finnish forest ecosystems

Climate change impacts on the dynamics of the functioning and structure of boreal forests, with implications for the sustainability of forest production and carbon sequestration

Carbon pathways through boreal lakes: A multi-scale approach (CARBO)

Arctic feedbacks to global warming

The record of rapid changes in the Arctic and their impact on glaciers in Svalbard

Numerical investigations of sea-ice variability in the Arctic Ocean

Long-term ozone and UV estimates

Sensitivity of boreal fish larvae to UV-B radiation: A preliminary risk assessment

Responses of silver birch (Betula pendula Roth) to increasing CO2 and O3

Global problems and their governance: The contribution by the Figare/Safir project

Legal aspects of climate change: Instrument choice and the Kyoto mechanisms

Global policies and Finland: Environment, energy markets and forest sector

The development of climate discourse: internationally, in Finland and in Finnish transport futures studies

Land use changes and carbon flows in Central America: Options for carbon management

Conditioning global and local climate, biodiversity and development policies - changing institutional and environmental contexts of tropical forests (CLIMA-X)

Local and national impacts of global climate change and biodiversity policies in the Philippines

The regional and local policy impacts of global environmental and climate regimes (CLIMA-X)

Global change in the Arctic and institutional responses - discourse analytic approaches

Index of authors

Index of keywords