Climate Change: A Multidisciplinary Approach - Softcover

Burroughs, William James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521567718 ISBN 13: 9780521567718

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2001

Synopsis

Climate Change: a Multidisciplinary Approach provides an up-to-date, concise and comprehensive presentation of our current knowledge of climate change and its implications for society. The book begins by giving a balanced coverage of the physical principles of the global climate, its behaviour on all timescales, and the evidence for and consequences of past change. It then reviews how we measure climate change and the statistical methods for analysing data, before exploring its causes and how we can model this behaviour. The final sections discuss predictions of future climate change and the economic and political debate surrounding its prevention and mitigation. This is a valuable undergraduate textbook for a wide range of courses, including meteorology, oceanography, environmental science, earth science, geography, history, agriculture and social science. It will also appeal to a wider general audience of readers in search of a better understanding of climate change.

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Review

'... a recommended read for the informed layman and student seeking a wider background in this topical but complex field.' Grant Bigg, Weather

'The book is well written, contains practically no mathematics and yet manages to explain, in a clear and attractive style, the subtleties of the subject ... I recommend it to everybody interested in the climate of our earth.' Michael Hantel, Meteoroligsche Zeitschrift

'... the book enthusiastically achieves its aims of not oversimplifying but explaining the complexities of what is well established and unknown about the climate system for a wider audience ...'. Claire Goodess, International Journal of Climatology

Book Description

This book provides an up-to-date, concise and comprehensive presentation of our current knowledge of climate change. As well as being a valuable undergraduate textbook for a wide range of courses, the book will also appeal to a wider general audience in search of a better understanding of climate change.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521567718
• ISBN 13: 9780521567718
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 314