Understanding Climate Change: Science, Policy, and Practice

by Sarah L. Burch, Sara E. Harris

Conversations about climate change are filled with challenges involving complex data, deeply held values, and political issues. Understanding Climate Change provides readers with a concise, accessible, and holistic picture of the climate change problem, including both the scientific and human dimensions. Understanding Climate Change examines climate change as both a scientific and a public policy issue. Sarah L. Burch and Sara E. Harris explain the basics of the climate system, climate models and prediction, and human and biophysical impacts, as well as strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, enhancing adaptability, and enabling climate change governance. The authors examine the connections between climate change and other pressing issues, such as human health, poverty, and other environmental problems, and they explore the ways that sustainable responses to climate change can simultaneously address those issues. An effective and integrated introduction to an urgent and controversial issue, Understanding Climate Change contains the tools needed for students, instructors, and decision-makers to become constructive participants in the human response to climate change.

Genres: Science, Environment

328 pages, Paperback

First published June 28, 2014

Reviews

[Mark · Rating 4 out of 5]

A concise and useful overview, strongest on explaining the science.

[Jay Abbott · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great overview and reference source

Good balance of detail and high picture explanations. I recommend this as a foundation for group interaction. A 2020 or '21 update is expected.

[GONZA · Rating 3 out of 5]

Beautiful book, too bad it is sometimes too technical and not really suitable for ignorant people like me. In part this is volume full of predictions quite dramatic, but also any strategies aimed at improving the present and future situations.

Bel libro, peccato che a volte é veramente troppo tecnico e non adatto alle persone ignoranti come me. A parte questo é pieno di previsioni abbastanza drammatiche, ma anche di eventuali strategie tese al miglioramento delle situazioni presenti e future.

THANKS TO NETGALLEY AND UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS FOR THE PREVIEW!

[Mills College Library]

363.73874 B9474 2014