Bibliograph

Understanding climate change, science, policy, and practice, Sarah L. Burch and Sara E. Harris

Type

Label

Understanding climate change, science, policy, and practice, Sarah L. Burch and Sara E. Harris

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-297) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Understanding climate change

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

865495408

Responsibility statement

Sarah L. Burch and Sara E. Harris

Sub title

science, policy, and practice

Summary

"Conversations about climate change are filled with challenges involving complex data, deeply held values, and political issues. Understanding Climate Change provides readers with a concise, accessible, and holistic picture of the climate change problem, including both the scientific and human dimensions. Understanding Climate Change examines climate change as both a scientific and a public policy issue. Sarah L. Burch and Sara E. Harris explain the basics of the climate system, climate models and prediction, and human and biophysical impacts, as well as strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, enhancing adaptability, and enabling climate change governance. The authors examine the connections between climate change and other pressing issues, such as human health, poverty, and other environmental problems, and they explore the ways that sustainable responses to climate change can simultaneously address those issues. An effective and integrated introduction to an urgent and controversial issue, this book contains the tools needed for students, instructors, and decision-makers to become constructive participants in the human response to climate change."--Page i

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