The Complete Guide to Climate Change
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The Complete Guide to Climate Change

  1. 436 pages
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eBook - ePub

The Complete Guide to Climate Change

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2008
eBook ISBN
9781134021246
Edition
1
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Ecology
Index
Biological Sciences

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. List of illustrations
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Adaptation
  8. Aerosols
  9. Agriculture and food supply impacts
  10. Albedo
  11. Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions
  12. Biodiversity impacts
  13. Biofuels
  14. Biosequestration
  15. Carbon capture and storage
  16. Carbon cycle
  17. Carbon dioxide (CO2)
  18. Carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e)
  19. Carbon sinks
  20. Carbon tax
  21. Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
  22. Climate change feedbacks
  23. Climate change impacts
  24. Climate sensitivity
  25. Coastal zone impacts
  26. Dangerous climate change
  27. El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
  28. Emissions intensity
  29. Emissions per capita
  30. Emissions trading
  31. Energy efficiency
  32. Extreme weather events
  33. Finance and insurance
  34. Fossil fuels
  35. Future emissions trends
  36. Global dimming
  37. Global warming
  38. Global warming potentials
  39. Greenhouse effect
  40. Greenhouse gas inventories
  41. Greenhouse gases
  42. Health impacts
  43. Ice sheets and glaciers
  44. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
  45. Joint Implementation (JI)
  46. Kyoto Protocol
  47. Land carbon sinks
  48. Marine impacts
  49. Methane (CH4)
  50. Methane hydrates
  51. Milankovich cycles
  52. Mitigation
  53. Nitrous oxide (N2O)
  54. North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO)
  55. Nuclear power
  56. Ocean carbon sinks
  57. Ozone
  58. Polar impacts
  59. Radiative forcing
  60. Renewable energy
  61. Sea level rise
  62. Socioeconomic impacts
  63. Solar power
  64. Stabilization targets
  65. Synthetic gases
  66. Technology, structural change, and organizations
  67. Thermohaline
  68. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
  69. Water impacts
  70. Wind power
  71. Bibliography