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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789258403321

Titolo

Climate Change : What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren / / edited by Joseph F.C. DiMento and Pamela Doughman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-262-32231-5

0-262-32230-7

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (362 p.)

Collana

American and comparative environmental policy

Disciplina

577.2

Soggetti

Climatic changes - History

Climatic changes - Social aspects

Communication in science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Making Climate Change Understandable; 2 A Primer on Global Climate-Change Science; 3 Climate-Change Effects, Adaptation, and Mitigation; 4 The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change: How Do We Know We're Not Wrong?; 5 Climate Change: How the World Is Responding; 6 Climate Change as News: Challenges in Communicating Environmental Science; 7 Climate Change and Human Security; 8 Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren; Glossary; Contributors; Index; Series List

Sommario/riassunto

"This revised and updated collection of essays on climate change incorporates the latest scientific research and policy initiatives on the subject. It describes recent major legislative actions, analyzes alternative regulatory tools (including new uses of taxes and markets), offers increased coverage of China and other developing nations, discusses the role of social media in communicating about climate change, and provides updated assessments of the effects of climate change."--Provided by publisher.