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The Complete Guide to Climate Change

Autor Brian Dawson, Matt Spannagle
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 noi 2008
For anyone trying to separate the fact from the fiction, The Complete Guide to Climate Change is an indispensable resource. Taking you through the A to Z of the key scientific, geographical and socio-political issues involved in the study of the environment and the implications of mankind’s effect upon it, topics covered include:
  • environmental Science – the Carbon Cycle and the "Greenhouse Gases"
  • the impacts of climate change on life, land and sea
  • mitigation strategies from carbon capture to carbon taxes
  • the Kyoto Protocol and UNFCC
  • renewable fuel sources, from wind to solar power.
Including guides to the latest scientific and governmental thinking on climate change, this book will tell you all you need to know about perhaps the biggest issue facing mankind today.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415477901
ISBN-10: 0415477905
Pagini: 448
Ilustrații: 3 black & white illustrations, 22 black & white tables
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.83 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Undergraduate

Cuprins

Adaptation.  Aerosols.  Additionality.  Biomethanation.  Carbon Cycle.  Climate Change Impact.  Deforestation.  Energy Sector.  Glacier Impacts.  Kyoto Protocol

Notă biografică

Brian Dawson is Climate Change and Energy Adviser for the Australian International Development Assistance Agency.
Matt Spannagle is Technical Manager of the MDG Carbon Facility of the United Nations Development Programme.

Recenzii

"This volume should be valuable to the general public, and especially to journalists and other writers on climate change, as a source for clarification of often-misunderstood terms and as a part of any fact-checking endeavor - Recommended."
-- Choice, August 2009

Descriere

An authoritative and easy to use A to Z guide to the key scientific, geographical and socio-political concepts central to the study of climate change.
Taking you through the latest thinking on global warming, environmental damage and risk, this book has everything you will need to know perhaps the biggest issue facing mankind today.