Climate Change: The Key Concepts provides a clear and accessible guide to this highly topical and complex area. The book covers key scientific, geographical and socio-political concepts in an easy to use A-Z format, together with tips for further reading to take your studies further. Entries include:
Aerosols
Carbon Accounting
Climate Change impacts
Deforestation
Evapotranspiration
Global Warming
Kyoto Protocol.
Taking the reader through the latest thinking on climate change, environmental damage and risk, this book has everything the student - or indeed anyone who wants to know more about the most important threat ever faced by mankind - will need to know.
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
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Höhe: 216 mm
Breite: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-415-41984-0 (9780415419840)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Former Consultant, United Nations Development programme United Nations Development Programme, New York, USA
Autor*in
University of Western Australia, Australia
United Nations Development Programme, New York, USA
Adaptation. Aerosols. Additionality. Biomethanation. Carbon Cycle. Climate Change Impact. Deforestation. Energy Sector. Glacier Impacts. Kyoto Protocol.