Climate Change: The Key Concepts
1st Edition
Published on 1. October 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
608 pages
978-0-415-41985-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-415-41985-7 (9780415419857)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Former Consultant, United Nations Development programme United Nations Development Programme, New York, USA
Content
Adaptation. Aerosols. Additionality. Biomethanation. Carbon Cycle. Climate Change Impact. Deforestation. Energy Sector. Glacier Impacts. Kyoto Protocol.