Understanding Climate Change: Science, Policy, and Practice - Softcover

Sarah Burch; Sara Harris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1442614455 ISBN 13: 9781442614451

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2014

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1442614455
• ISBN 13: 9781442614451
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320