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, Understanding Climate Change contains the tools needed for students, instructors, and decision-makers to become constructive participants in the human response to climate change.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
ISBN-10
1442614455
ISBN-13
9781442614451
eBay Product ID (ePID)
208864429
Product Key Features
Author
Sara Harris, Sarah Burch
Format
Trade Paperback (US), Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Environment & Planning
Type
Textbook
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Toronto
Content Note
50 Figures
Author Biography
Sarah L. Burch is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of Waterloo.Sara E. Harris is a Senior Instructor in the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of British Columbia.
Date of Publication
03/07/2014
Country of Publication
Canada
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