The Complete Guide to Climate Change - Softcover

Dawson, Brian; Spannagle, Matt

 
9780415477901: The Complete Guide to Climate Change

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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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

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ISBN 10:  0415477891 ISBN 13:  9780415477895
Verlag: Routledge, 2009
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