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20. Public Involvement in Water Resources Decisionmaking in a Climate . . .
Pages 324-325

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... As a political phenomenon, global climate change burst onto the public agenda in 1988. The conditions that allowed for the emergence of this issue to broad public consciousness have been discussed at length by myself and coauthors Hanna Cortner and Marc Landy ( 1990)
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... Third World countries, which have contributed rather little to the creation of the climate change problem, may nonetheless carry the brunt of policies to limit development and to preserve forests. How can the burden of reducing the load of greenhouse gases be equitably shared among winners and losers?
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