The Complete Guide to Climate Change

Zusatztext "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 Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Adaptation.  Aerosols.  Additionality.  Biomethanation.  Carbon Cycle.  Climate Change Impact.  Deforestation.  Energy Sector.  Glacier Impacts.  Kyoto Protocol

Product details

• Authors: Brian Dawson, Brian Dawson, Dawson Brian, Matt Spannagle, Matt (United Nations Development Programme Spannagle, Spannagle Matt
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2008
• EAN: 9780415477895
• ISBN: 978-0-415-47789-5
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, NATURE / Ecology, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, NATURE / Weather, Politics & government, Politics and government, Meteorology & climatology, Atmospheric physics, Meteorology and climatology, Physical geography & topography, Physical geography and topography