The Complete Guide to Climate Change
Seiten
2008
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-47790-1 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-47790-1 (ISBN)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Adaptation. Aerosols. Additionality. Biomethanation. Carbon Cycle. Climate Change Impact. Deforestation. Energy Sector. Glacier Impacts. Kyoto Protocol
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.11.2008 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 22 Tables, black and white; 3 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 830 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Angewandte Physik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-415-47790-5 / 0415477905 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-415-47790-1 / 9780415477901 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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