Climate Change Science and Policy - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1597265675 ISBN 13: 9781597265676

Publisher: Island Press, 2009

Synopsis

This is the most comprehensive and current reference resource on climate change available today. It features forty-nine individual chapters by some of the world's leading climate scientists. Its five sections address climate change in five dimensions: ecological impacts, policy analysis, international considerations, United States considerations, and mitigation options to reduce carbon emissions. In many ways, this volume supersedes the "Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change" ("IPCC"). Many important developments too recent to be treated in the 2007 IPCC documents are covered here. Overall, "Climate Change Science and Policy" paints a direr picture of the effects of climate change than do the IPCC reports. It reveals that climate change has progressed faster than the IPCC reports anticipated and that the outlook for the future is bleaker than the IPCC reported.

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About the Author

Stephen H. Schneider is professor of biological sciences at Stanford University, where he is also codirector of the Center for Environmental Science and Policy. Armin Rosencranz is the founder and former president of Pacific Environment. Michael D. Mastrandrea is a research associate at the Stanford University Center for Environmental Science and Policy/Woods Institute for the Environment. Kristin Kuntz-Duriseti is in the department of Political Science at the University of Michigan and is also associated with the Institute for International Studies and Biological Sciences at Stanford University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Island Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1597265675
• ISBN 13: 9781597265676
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 544
• Editor: Schneider Stephen H., Rosencranz Armin, Mastrandrea Michael D., Kuntz-Duriseti Kristin