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Future Climate Change: Critical Concepts in the Environment

Editat de Mark Maslin, Samuel Randalls
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 dec 2011
In recent years, future climate change has increasingly been recognized as one of the most important issues of the twenty-first century, challenging the very structure of our global society. No longer just an abstruse scientific concern, it prompts difficult choices for both individuals and governments. Moreover, it is of the first importance to those working in disciplines such as climatology, engineering, economics, sociology, geopolitics, local politics, law, and global health.
Emanating from across the social and natural sciences, as well as in the humanities, serious scholarship on future climate change flourishes now as it has never done before, and this new title in the Routledge series, Critical Concepts in the Environment, meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of a vast literature – and the continuing explosion in research output. Edited by leading scholars in the field, this new Routledge Major Work is a four-volume collection of foundational and cutting-edge contributions.
The first volume (Science) in the collection deals with the development of the science of global warming and climate change, starting with Tyndall (1861), through to the IPCC synthesis (2007), and ending with the very latest research. Volume two (Impact Assessments), meanwhile, assembles the best thinking on how the potential physical, biological, social-political, and economic impacts of climate change are assessed. This volume also includes material on potential surprises that science is starting to investigate, such as the rapid melting of the Greenland and Western Antarctic ice sheets, die back of the Amazon rainforest, release of gas hydrates, and other tipping points. The third volume (Politics and Solutions) gathers the most influential research on climate-change solutions; it encompasses global and local politics, engineering, renewable energy, and geoengineering. The final volume in the collection (Framing the Debate) brings together key scholarship to question and explore how the climate-change debate has been framed and reframed as a scientific, economic, security, health, development, geopolitical, ethical, and cultural issue.
With comprehensive introductions to each volume, newly written by the editors, which place the collected material in its historical and intellectual context, Future Climate Change is an essential collection destined to be welcomed as a vital research resource by all scholars and students of the subject.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415569811
ISBN-10: 0415569818
Pagini: 2064
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 145 mm
Greutate: 3.98 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Critical Concepts in the Environment

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

Volume 1: Science  1. Classics  2. Climate Science  Volume 2: Impact Assessments  3. Regional Specific Impacts  4. Biodiversity  5. Health Impacts  6. Tipping Points and Surprises  Volume 3: Politics and Solutions  7. Politics  8. Kyoto Politics  9. Post-Kyoto Politics  10. Global Solutions  11. Solutions  12. Energy and Transport Solutions  13. Market Solutions  14. Sustainable Cities  15. Geoengineering  Volume 4: Framing the Debate  16. Why Framing?  17. Development Framings  18. Economic Framings  19. Ethics/Justice Framings  20. Health Framings  21. Cultural and Behavioural Framings  22. Security Framings  23. Science-Policy-Politics Framings  24. Alternative Framings  25. Artistic Framings  26. Beyond Climate Change?

Recenzii

"... this is an impressive collection of writings that will be utilized as a valuable multidisciplinary reference on climate change for at least a decade. Summing Up: Highly recommended" - J. Schoof, CHOICE, November 2012

Descriere

A new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in the Environment, this is a four-volume collection of foundational and cutting-edge research on future climate change.