Understanding climate change : science, policy, and practice
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- ISBN: 9781442614451
- ISBN: 1442614455
- ISBN: 9781442646520
- ISBN: 1442646527
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Physical Description:
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xii, 307 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm. - Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo : [2014].
- Copyright: ©2014
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-297) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 1. Climate Change in the Public Sphere -- 1.1. Communicating about climate change -- 1.2. The state of the science -- 1.3. Responding to climate change: mitigation and adaptation -- 1.4. The state of the policy -- 1.4.1. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol -- 1.4.2. The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Rio, and Rio +20) -- 1.4.3. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- 1.5. The scale of the challenge: accelerating action on climate change -- 1.6. Roadmap to the book -- 2. Basic System Dynamics -- 2.1. What’s a system? -- 2.1.1. System parts and interactions -- 2.1.2. Stocks and flows -- 2.1.3. Feedbacks -- 2.1.4. Lags -- 2.1.5. Function or purpose -- 2.2. Earth’s Climate System: The parts and interconnections -- 2.2.1. Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, Biosphere, Geosphere, and Anthroposphere -- 2.2.2. The Ins and Out of Earth’s Energy Budget -- 3. Climate controls: Energy from the Sun -- 3.1. Incoming Solar Radiation -- 3.1.1. Blackbody radiation: the Sun versus Earth -- 3.1.2. Our place in space: the Goldilocks planet -- 3.2. Natural Variability -- 3.2.1. 4.5 billion years of solar energy -- 3.2.2. Orbital controls: baseline variability in the past million years -- 3.2.3. Sunspots: how big a deal? -- 3.3. Mitigation strategies and policy tools -- 4. Climate Controls: Earth’s Reflectivity -- 4.1. Natural Variability -- 4.1.1. At Earth’s surface: Ice, water, and vegetation -- 4.1.2. In the atmosphere: Aerosols and clouds -- 4.2. Anthropogenic Variability -- 4.2.1. Land-use changes -- 4.2.2. Anthropogenic Aerosols -- 4.3. Mitigation strategies and policy tools -- 5. Climate Controls: The Greenhouse effect -- 5.1. How does the greenhouse effect work? -- 5.1.1. Characteristics of a good greenhouse gas -- 5.1.2. Energy flows in a greenhouse world -- 5.2. The unperturbed carbon cycle and natural greenhouse variability -- 5.2.1. Carbon stocks and flows -- 5.2.2. Timescales of natural greenhouse variability -- 5.2.3. Feedbacks involving the greenhouse effect -- 5.3. Anthropogenic interference -- 5.3.1. Perturbed stocks, flows, and chemical fingerprints -- 5.3.2. Cumulative carbon emissions: a budget -- 6. The Core of Climate Change Mitigation: Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Transforming the Energy System -- 6.1. Introduction to reducing greenhouse gas emissions -- 6.2. The Global Energy System -- 6.3. Mitigation Strategies -- 6.3.1. Demand-side mitigation: energy efficiency and conservation -- 6.3.2. Supply-side mitigation -- 6.3.3. Carbon capture and storage -- 6.4. Fostering accelerated and transformative mitigation -- 7. Climate Models -- 7.1. Climate Model Basics -- 7.1.1. Physical Principles -- 7.1.2. The Role of Observations -- 7.1.3. Time and Space -- 7.1.4. Parameterization -- 7.1.5. Testing climate models -- 7.2. Types of climate models -- 7.2.1. Energy Balance Models -- 7.2.2. Earth System Models of Intermediate Complexity -- 7.2.3. General Circulation Models -- 7.2.4. Regional Climate Models -- 7.2.5. Integrated Assessment Models -- 7.3. Certainties and Uncertainties -- 8. Future Climate: Emissions, climate, and what we do about it -- 8.1. Emissions scenarios -- 8.1.1. SRES scenario ‘families’ and storylines -- 8.1.2. Post-SRES and Representative Concentration Pathways -- 8.2. Global Climate in 2100 -- 8.2.1. Temperature, precipitation, sea level rise, and extreme events -- 8.2.2. Uncertainty -- 8.3. Regional forecasting -- 8.4. Backcasting -- 8.5. Scale of the challenge: Transforming emissions pathways -- 9. Climate Change Impacts on Natural Systems -- 9.1. Observed Impacts -- 9.1.1. Impacts on Land -- 9.1.2. Impacts in the Oceans -- 9.2. Adaptation in Natural Systems -- 9.3. Policy Tools and Progress -- 9.3.1. International tools -- 9.3.2. National and sub-national tools -- 9.4. Conclusions -- 10. Climate Change Impacts on Human Systems -- 10.1. Introduction -- 10.2. Key concepts in climate change impacts and adaptation -- 10.3. Observed and Projected Impacts -- 10.3.1. Climate change impacts on food and water -- 10.3.2. Climate change impacts on cities and infrastructure -- 10.3.3. Equity implications: Health, culture, and global distribution of wealth -- 10.4. Adaptation in human systems -- 10.5. Policy Tools and Progress -- 10.5.1. Policy tools for adaptation -- 10.5.2. International and national adaptation -- 10.5.3. Sub-national adaptation -- 10.5.4. Social movements and human behavior change: the root of the adaptation conundrum -- 11. The Frontier: Innovative Action on Climate Change -- 11.1. Integrating Adaptation and Mitigation: Pursuing Sustainability -- 11.2. What Road will we choose? The ethics of geoengineering -- 11.3. Transformative change: reorienting development paths to yield a sustainable future -- 11.4. Conclusions and future directions |
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