Global Climate Change: Convergence of Disciplines - Softcover

Bloom, Arnold J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0878930272 ISBN 13: 9780878930272

Publisher: OUP USA, 2009

Synopsis

Published by Sinauer Associates, an imprint of Oxford University Press.

Mark Twain's comment―everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it―no longer applies: human activities have altered the global climate, and governments are implementing policies to avoid more extreme perturbations. Global Climate Change examines the factors responsible for global climate change and the geophysical, biological, economic, legal, and cultural consequences of such changes. The book highlights the complexity of decision-making under uncertainty, contrasting the methods that various disciplines employ to evaluate past and future conditions.

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About the Author

Arnold J. Bloom received his undergraduate degree in Physics from Yale University. He spent several years developing computer models of the spread of air pollution over cities in the USA and Germany. He received a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from Stanford University, where he also completed a two-semester course in Environmental Legislation at the Law School. He conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. He has been on the faculty of the University of California at Davis for thirty years. His publications range from major reviews on the economics of resource allocation in plants to the future of agriculture under rising carbon dioxide levels. He has coauthored textbooks on plant physiology and plant mineral nutrition. Global ClimateChange: Convergence of Disciplines derives from a General Education course offered for the past seven years that has grown to an enrollment of three hundred students.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0878930272
• ISBN 13: 9780878930272
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 398