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Understanding Climate Change: Science, Policy, and Practice [Hardback]

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  • Formāts: Hardback, 328 pages, height x width x depth: 238x161x27 mm, weight: 600 g, 50 figures
  • Izdošanas datums: 28-Jun-2014
  • Izdevniecība: University of Toronto Press
  • ISBN-10: 1442646527
  • ISBN-13: 9781442646520
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  • Formāts: Hardback, 328 pages, height x width x depth: 238x161x27 mm, weight: 600 g, 50 figures
  • Izdošanas datums: 28-Jun-2014
  • Izdevniecība: University of Toronto Press
  • ISBN-10: 1442646527
  • ISBN-13: 9781442646520
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Understanding Climate Change provides readers with a concise, accessible, and holistic picture of the climate change problem, including both the scientific and human dimensions.



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.

Recenzijas

Perhaps the most accessible book yet to be written on climate change: If you decide to read only one book about climate change, Understanding Climate Change is the one you should choose. -- Jason MacLean Thunder Bay Chronicle-Journal 'This book is an excellent overview of the scientific and human dimensions of anthropogenic climate change... The main contribution is the seamless integration between the physical science and the social science... Highly recommended.' -- J. Schoof Choice Magazine vol 52:07:2015 "This book seeks to move beyond the fundamentals and introduces the reader to the economic, political, and social dynamics of climate change. Each chapter begins with "Main Points", or guided questions, which is ideal for guided research in schools or undergraduate classes." -- Pat M. Couts, American Association of School Librarians University Press Books for Public and Secondary Schools 2015, Twenty Fifth Edition

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"Bridging social and natural science, Understanding Climate Change is a very accessible and well developed explanation of climate change. Students without scientific backgrounds will find the approach refreshing and appealing, yet those with natural science training will still find it engaging and interesting." -- Len Broberg, Director, Environmental Studies Program, University of Montana "Written in an accessible style that will engage the reader, Understanding Climate Change is a well-balanced, comprehensive review of climate science and politics. The field has been crying out for such a resource." -- Aled Jones, Director, Global Sustainability Institute, Anglia Ruskin University "Understanding Climate Change is a well-written text, with strong and substantive content. Undergraduates will find its analogies and metaphors catchy and effective for learning and retention." -- Max Boykoff, Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Colorado-Boulder
Preface xi
1 Climate Change in the Public Sphere
3(21)
1.1 Communicating about climate change
6(6)
1.2 The state of the science
12(2)
1.3 Responding to climate change: Mitigation and adaptation
14(1)
1.4 A brief history of climate change policy
14(7)
1.4.1 The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol
17(2)
1.4.2 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
19(2)
1.5 The scale of the challenge: Accelerating action on climate change
21(1)
1.6 Roadmap of the book
22(2)
2 Basic System Dynamics
24(34)
2.1 What is a system?
26(12)
2.1.1 System parts and interactions
27(1)
2.1.2 Stocks and flows
28(4)
2.1.3 Feedbacks
32(4)
2.1.4 Lags
36(1)
2.1.5 Function or purpose
37(1)
2.2 Earth's climate system: The parts and interconnections
38(19)
2.2.1 Atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, geosphere, and anthroposphere
38(1)
2.2.1.1 The atmosphere
39(2)
2.2.1.2 The hydrosphere
41(3)
2.2.1.3 The biosphere
44(3)
2.2.1.4 The geosphere
47(2)
2.2.1.5 The anthroposphere
49(2)
2.2.2 The ins and outs of Earth's energy budget
51(1)
2.2.2.1 Does what comes in go out?
52(3)
2.2.2.2 Climate sensitivity: How much bang for your buck?
55(2)
2.3 Integrating systems, science, and policy
57(1)
3 Climate Controls: Energy from the Sun
58(27)
3.1 Incoming solar radiation
60(8)
3.1.1 Blackbody radiation: The Sun versus Earth
60(7)
3.1.2 Our place in space: The Goldilocks planet
67(1)
3.2 Natural variability
68(14)
3.2.1 4.5 billion years of solar energy
69(1)
3.2.2 Orbital controls: Baseline variability in the past few million years
70(3)
3.2.2.1 Eccentricity: The shape of Earth's orbital path
73(2)
3.2.2.2 Tilt
75(1)
3.2.2.3 Precession of the equinoxes
76(1)
3.2.2.4 The link to ice age cycles
77(2)
3.2.3 Sunspots: How important?
79(3)
3.3 Response strategies
82(3)
4 Climate Controls: Earth's Reflectivity
85(24)
4.1 Natural variability
89(13)
4.1.1 At Earth's surface: Ice, water, and vegetation
89(1)
4.1.1.1 Ice
89(3)
4.1.1.2 Water and sea level
92(2)
4.1.1.3 Vegetation
94(1)
4.1.2 In the atmosphere: Aerosols and clouds
95(1)
4.1.2.1 Aerosols
96(3)
4.1.2.2 Clouds
99(3)
4.2 Anthropogenic variability
102(4)
4.2.1 Land-use changes
102(2)
4.2.2 Anthropogenic aerosols
104(2)
4.3 Response strategies
106(3)
5 Climate Controls: The Greenhouse Effect
109(30)
5.1 How does the greenhouse effect work?
112(8)
5.1.1 Characteristics of a good greenhouse gas
112(5)
5.1.2 Energy flows in a greenhouse world
117(3)
5.2 The unperturbed carbon cycle and natural greenhouse variability
120(13)
5.2.1 Carbon stocks and flows
120(2)
5.2.2 Time scales of natural greenhouse variability
122(1)
5.2.2.1 The long-term view: Hundreds of millions of years
123(2)
5.2.2.2 The medium-term view: Hundreds of thousands of years
125(2)
5.2.2.3 Abrupt change: Analogue for our future?
127(2)
5.2.3 Feedbacks involving the greenhouse effect
129(4)
5.3 Anthropogenic interference
133(6)
5.3.1 Perturbed stocks, flows, and chemical fingerprints
133(3)
5.3.2 Cumulative carbon emissions: A budget
136(3)
6 Climate Change Mitigation: Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Transforming the Energy System
139(30)
6.1 Reducing greenhouse gas emissions: An overview
143(3)
6.2 The global energy system
146(2)
6.3 Mitigation strategies
148(20)
6.3.1 Demand-side mitigation: Energy efficiency and conservation
149(1)
6.3.1.1 Energy-efficient technologies
150(1)
6.3.1.2 Conservation and behavior change
151(3)
6.3.2 Supply-side mitigation
154(2)
6.3.2.1 Wind power
156(1)
6.3.2.2 Solar power
157(1)
6.3.2.3 Biomass and biofuels
158(2)
6.3.2.4 Geothermal energy
160(2)
6.3.2.5 Tidal power
162(2)
6.3.3 Carbon capture and storage
164(1)
6.3.3.1 Carbon capture and storage
164(3)
6.3.3.2 Carbon sequestration
167(1)
6.4 Fostering accelerated and transformative mitigation
168(1)
7 Climate Models
169(22)
7.1 Climate model basics
172(8)
7.1.1 Physical principles
172(1)
7.1.2 The role of observations
173(3)
7.1.3 Time and space
176(2)
7.1.4 Parameterization
178(1)
7.1.5 Testing climate models
179(1)
7.2 Types of climate models
180(9)
7.2.1 Energy balance models
180(4)
7.2.2 Earth system models of intermediate complexity
184(1)
7.2.3 General circulation models
185(1)
7.2.4 Regional climate models
186(2)
7.2.5 Integrated assessment models
188(1)
7.3 Certainties and uncertainties
189(2)
8 Future Climate: Emissions, Climatic Shifts, and What to Do about Them
191(21)
8.1 Emissions scenarios
194(7)
8.1.1 SRES scenario "families" and storylines
196(4)
8.1.2 Post-SRES and representative concentration pathways
200(1)
8.2 The global climate in 2100
201(8)
8.2.1 Temperature, precipitation, sea-level rise, and extreme weather
201(1)
8.2.1.1 Temperature
202(2)
8.2.1.2 Precipitation
204(1)
8.2.1.3 Sea-level rise
205(1)
8.2.1.4 Extreme weather and abrupt changes
206(1)
8.2.2 Uncertainty
207(2)
8.3 Backcasting
209(1)
8.4 The scale of the challenge: Transforming emissions pathways
210(2)
9 Impacts of Climate Change on Natural Systems
212(25)
9.1 Observed impacts
215(11)
9.1.1 Impacts on land
215(2)
9.1.1.1 The changing timing of events, migration of species, and altered morphology
217(4)
9.1.1.2 Coastal erosion and rising sea levels
221(1)
9.1.2 Impacts in the oceans
222(4)
9.2 Adaptation in natural systems
226(4)
9.3 Policy tools and progress
230(6)
9.3.1 International tools
231(1)
9.3.2 National and subnational tools
232(1)
9.3.2.1 Ecosystem-based approaches at work: The Wallasea Island Wild Coast project
233(1)
9.3.2.2 Ecosystem-based approaches at work: Peatland rewetting in Belarus
234(2)
9.3.2.3 Ecosystem-based approaches: Conclusion
236(1)
9.4 Conclusions
236(1)
10 Climate Change Impacts on Human Systems
237(24)
10.1 Introduction
239(1)
10.2 Key concepts in climate change impacts and adaptation
240(4)
10.3 Observed and projected impacts of climate change
244(6)
10.3.1 Impacts on water and food
244(3)
10.3.2 Impacts on cities and infrastructure
247(1)
10.3.3 Equity implications: Health and the global distribution of wealth
248(2)
10.4 Adaptation in human systems
250(4)
10.4.1 How to "do" adaptation
251(3)
10.5 Policy tools and progress
254(7)
10.5.1 Policy tools for adaptation
254(2)
10.5.2 International and national adaptation
256(1)
10.5.3 Subnational adaptation
257(2)
10.5.4 Social movements and human behavior: The root of the adaptation conundrum
259(2)
11 Understanding Climate Change: Pathways Forward
261(14)
11.1 Integrating adaptation and mitigation: A sustainability approach
263(3)
11.2 Development paths and transformative change
266(3)
11.3 Ethics, equity, and responsibility
269(2)
11.4 Individual choice and collective action: Moving forward
271(2)
11.4.1 Evidence-based decision-making and the science/policy interface
272(1)
11.5 Next steps
273(2)
Notes 275(24)
Index 299
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.