Climate change [electronic resource] : global risks, challenges and decisions / Katherine Richardson, Will Steffen, Diana Liverman and Terry Barker [and ten others] ; with contributions to chapters by Myles R. Allen [and many others].
Richardson, Katherine.
2011
QC903 .R48 2011eb
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Title Climate change [electronic resource] : global risks, challenges and decisions / Katherine Richardson, Will Steffen, Diana Liverman and Terry Barker [and ten others] ; with contributions to chapters by Myles R. Allen [and many others].
Author Richardson, Katherine.
ISBN 9780511989230 (electronic bk.)
9780521198363
Publication Details Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxi, 501 p.)
Call Number QC903 .R48 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 363.738/74
Summary "Providing an up-to-date synthesis of all knowledge relevant to the climate change issue, this book ranges from the basic science documenting the need for policy action to the technologies, economic instruments and political strategies that can be employed in response to climate change. Ethical and cultural issues constraining the societal response to climate change are also discussed. This book provides a handbook for those who want to understand and contribute to meeting this challenge. It covers a very wide range of disciplines - core biophysical sciences involved with climate change (geosciences, atmospheric sciences, ocean sciences, ecology/biology) as well as economics, political science, health sciences, institutions and governance, sociology, ethics and philosophy, and engineering. As such it will be invaluable for a wide range of researchers and professionals wanting a cutting-edge synthesis of climate change issues, and for advanced student courses on climate change."-- Provided by publisher.
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Foreword
Preface
List of acronyms and abbreviations
Part I. Climatic Trends: 1. Identifying, monitoring and predicting change in the climate system
2. The oceans and the climate system
3. Sea level rise and ice sheet dynamics
4. Carbon cycle trends and vulnerabilities
Part II. Defining 'Dangerous Climate Change': 5. The impact of climate change on human societies
6. Impacts of climate change on the biotic fabric of the planet
7. Tipping elements: jokers in the pack
8. Linking science and action: targets, timetables and emission budgets
Part III. Equity Issues: 9. The equity challenge and climate policy: responsibilities, vulnerabilities and inequality in the response to climate change
10. A long-term perspective on climate change: values and ethics
Part IV. Mitigation and Adaptation Approaches: 11. Low-carbon energy technologies as mitigation approaches
12. Economic approaches and instruments
13. Geopolitics and governance
14. Adapting to the unavoidable
Part V. Meeting the Challenge: 15. Integrating adaptation, mitigation and sustainable development
16. Mobilising the population
17. The human-Earth relationship: past, present and future
Index.

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