Climate Change Science and Policy
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Climate Change Science and Policy by Stephen H Schneider
This is the most comprehensive and current reference resource on climate change available today. It features 49 individual chapters by some of the world's leading climate scientists. Its five sections address climate change in five dimensions: ecological impacts; policy analysis; international considerations; United States considerations; and mitigation options to reduce carbon emissions. In many ways, this volume supersedes the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPC). Many important developments too recent to be treated by the 2007 IPC documents are covered here. This book considers not only the IPC report, but also results of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change held in Bali in December 2007, as well as even more recent research data. Overall, Climate Change Science and Policy paints a direr picture of the effects of climate change than do the IPC reports. It reveals that climate change has progressed faster than the IPC reports anticipated and that the outlook for the future is bleaker than the IPC reported. In his prologue, John P. Holdren writes that the widely-used term global warming is a misnomer. He suggests that a more accurate label would be global climatic disruption. This volume, he states, will equip readers with all they need to know to rebut the misrepresentations being propagated by climate-change skeptics. No one, he writes, will be a skeptic after reading this book.
Stephen H. Schneider is professor of biological sciences at Stanford University, where he is also codirector of the Center for Environmental Science and Policy. Armin Rosencranz is the founder and former president of Pacific Environment. Michael D. Mastrandrea is a research associate at the Stanford University Center for Environmental Science and Policy/Woods Institute for the Environment. Kristin Kuntz-Duriseti is in the department of Political Science at the University of Michigan and is also associated with the Institute for International Studies and Biological Sciences at Stanford University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781597265676 |
| ISBN 10 | 1597265675 |
| Title | Climate Change Science and Policy |
| Author | Stephen H Schneider |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Island Press |
| Year published | 2009-12-01 |
| Number of pages | 544 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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