Hard Choices: Climate Change in Canada - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 088920442X ISBN 13: 9780889204423

Casa editrice: Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr, 2004

Riassunto

Drought, floods, hurricanes, forest fires, ice storms, blackouts, dwindling fish stocks...what Canadian has not experienced one of these or more, or heard about the “greenhouse” effect, and not wondered what is happening to our climate? Yet most of us have a poor understanding of this extremely important issue, and need better, reliable scientific information. Hard Choices: Climate Change in Canada delivers some hard facts to help us make some of those hard choices.

This new collection of essays by leading Canadian scientists, engineers, social scientists, and humanists offers an overview and assessment of climate change and its impacts on Canada from physical, social, technological, economic, political, and ethical / religious perspectives. Interpreting and summarizing the large and complex literatures from each of these disciplines, the book offers a multidisciplinary approach to the challenges we face in Canada. Special attention is given to Canada’s response to the Kyoto Protocol, as well as an assessment of the overall adequacy of Kyoto as a response to the global challenge of climate change.

Hard Choices fills a gap in available books which provide readers with reliable information on climate change and its impacts that are specific to Canada. While written for the general reader, it is also well suited for use as an undergraduate text in environmental studies courses.

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Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 088920442X
• ISBN 13: 9780889204423
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 273
• Redattore: Coward Harold, Weaver Andrew J.
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile