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El. knyga: Complete Guide to Climate Change

(United Nations Development Programme, New York, USA),
  • Formatas: 448 pages
  • Išleidimo metai: 28-Nov-2008
  • Leidėjas: Routledge
  • Kalba: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9781134021246
  • Formatas: 448 pages
  • Išleidimo metai: 28-Nov-2008
  • Leidėjas: Routledge
  • Kalba: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9781134021246

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An authoritative and easy to use A to Z guide to the key scientific, geographical and socio-political concepts central to the study of climate change.

Taking you through the latest thinking on global warming, environmental damage and risk, this book has everything you will need to know perhaps the biggest issue facing mankind today.



For anyone trying to separate the fact from the fiction, The Complete Guide to Climate Change is an indispensable resource. Taking you through the A to Z of the key scientific, geographical and socio-political issues involved in the study of the environment and the implications of mankind’s effect upon it, topics covered include:

  • environmental Science – the Carbon Cycle and the "Greenhouse Gases"
  • the impacts of climate change on life, land and sea
  • mitigation strategies from carbon capture to carbon taxes
  • the Kyoto Protocol and UNFCC
  • renewable fuel sources, from wind to solar power.

Including guides to the latest scientific and governmental thinking on climate change, this book will tell you all you need to know about perhaps the biggest issue facing mankind today.

Recenzijos

"This volume should be valuable to the general public, and especially to journalists and other writers on climate change, as a source for clarification of often-misunderstood terms and as a part of any fact-checking endeavor - Recommended."

-- Choice, August 2009

List of illustrations vii
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Adaptation 1
Aerosols 6
Agriculture and food supply impacts 9
Albedo 14
Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions 20
Biodiversity impacts 27
Biofuels 35
Biosequestration 42
Carbon capture and storage 53
Carbon cycle 59
Carbon dioxide (CO2) 66
Carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) 72
Carbon sinks 73
Carbon tax 74
Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) 78
Climate change feedbacks 88
Climate change impacts 96
Climate sensitivity 103
Coastal zone impacts 106
Dangerous climate change 112
El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) 119
Emissions intensity 121
Emissions per capita 128
Emissions trading 136
Energy efficiency 146
Extreme weather events 156
Finance and insurance 162
Fossil fuels 170
Future emissions trends 179
Global dimming 188
Global warming 190
Global warming potentials 194
Greenhouse effect 196
Greenhouse gas inventories 199
Greenhouse gases 207
Health impacts 212
Ice sheets and glaciers 219
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 224
Joint Implementation (JI) 229
Kyoto Protocol 236
Land carbon sinks 249
Marine impacts 258
Methane (CH4) 263
Methane hydrates 270
Milankovich cycles 275
Mitigation 278
Nitrous oxide (N2O) 288
North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) 292
Nuclear power 293
Ocean carbon sinks 302
Ozone 307
Polar impacts 312
Radiative forcing 319
Renewable energy 323
Sea level rise 331
Socioeconomic impacts 336
Solar power 345
Stabilization targets 353
Synthetic gases 360
Technology, structural change, and organizations 366
Thermohaline 375
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 380
Water impacts 392
Wind power 399
Bibliography 407
Index 426
Brian Dawson is Climate Change and Energy Adviser for the Australian International Development Assistance Agency.

Matt Spannagle is Technical Manager of the MDG Carbon Facility of the United Nations Development Programme.