AIJ | Activities Implemented Jointly |
CBA | Cost-Benefit Analysis |
CBD | Convention on Biological Diversity |
CBNRM | Community Based Natural Resource Management |
CCD | Convention to Combat Desertification |
CDM | Clean Development Mechanism |
COP | Conference of the Parties (to agreements such as the Kyoto Protocol) |
CSE | Center for Science and Environment, Delhi |
DIPS | Deliberative and Inclusionary Processes in Environmental Policymaking |
EIA | Environmental Impact Assessment |
EPA | Environmental Protection Agency (of the USA) |
GBA | Global Biodiversity Assessment |
GCM | General Circulation Model |
GIS | Geographical Information System |
GM | Genetically Modified |
GMOs | Genetically Modified Organisms |
IDNDR | International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction |
ICRAF | International Center for Research in Agroforestry |
IGBP | International Geosphere-Biosphere Program |
I=PAT | (Equation): Environmental Impacts=function of Population growth, Affluence, and Technology |
IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
IUCN | International Union for the Conservation of Nature |
JI | Joint Implementation |
LRTAP | Long Range Transport of Air Pollution |
LTG | Limits to Growth |
NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
NGO | Non-Governmental Organization |
SBSTA | Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technical Advice to the UNFCCC |
SSK | Sociology of Scientific Knowledge |
UNEP | United Nations Environment Program |
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Publication information:
Book title: Critical Political Ecology: The Politics of Environmental Science.
Contributors: Tim Forsyth - Author.
Publisher: Routledge.
Place of publication: London.
Publication year: 2002.
Page number: xv.
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