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Global Environmental Change

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Bill Freedman

    1. Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

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  • Provides an up-to-date and authoritative resource pertaining to the scientific and socioeconomic dimensions of climate change, its anthropogenic influences, and the likely causes and consequences of predicted warming and other dynamics
  • Aims to provide a benchmark for the present state of both knowledge and uncertainty
  • Entries by highly qualified and well-recognized practitioners in their fields of expertise within the highly interdisciplinary subject areas of global environmental change
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Handbook of Global Environmental Pollution (EGEP)

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Table of contents (105 entries)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
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  2. Global Change and Climate

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Global Climate Change, Introduction

      • Natalia Fath, Brian D. Fath
      Pages 3-7

    3. Radiative Forcing and the Greenhouse Gases

      • David Szpunar
      Pages 9-21

    4. Reflective Aerosols and the Greenhouse Effect

      • Kathryn E. Kautzman
      Pages 23-30

    5. Water Cycles and Climate Change

      • Kevin E. Trenberth
      Pages 31-37

    6. Global Dimming and Brightening

      • Martin Wild
      Pages 39-47

    7. Paleoclimates

      • Thomas M. Cronin
      Pages 49-54

    8. Holocene Climate

      • Heinz Wanner
      Pages 55-59

    9. Changes in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

      • Hua Lin
      Pages 61-67

  3. Global Change and Oceans

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69
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    2. Sea-Surface Temperature

      • Thomas M. Smith
      Pages 71-76

    3. Variations of Oceanic Heat Content

      • Matthew D. Palmer
      Pages 77-83

    4. Ocean Currents and Circulation and Climate Change

      • Henk A. Dijkstra
      Pages 85-95

    5. Sea Ice

      • Hugues Goosse
      Pages 97-102

    6. Ocean Acidification and Oceanic Carbon Cycling

      • Dieter A. Wolf-Gladrow, Björn Rost
      Pages 103-110

    7. Other Nutrients and Dissolved Oxygen and Climate Change

      • Katja Fennel
      Pages 111-116

    8. Marine Net Primary Production

      • Zoe V. Finkel
      Pages 117-124

    9. Ecological Carbon Sequestration in the Oceans and Climate Change

      • Richard Sanders, Stephanie Henson
      Pages 125-131

    10. Ecosystem Resilience and Resistance to Climate Change

      • Bayden D. Russell, Sean D. Connell
      Pages 133-139
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About this book

The handbook Global Environmental Change is intended to serve as a reliable and comprehensive resource to attend the needs of researchers, teachers, students, and professionals working in science and policy aspects relevant to environment and sustainability. Entries in the handbook are arranged by major section, and are extensively cross-referenced to allow users to find related titles in a user-friendly way. The handbook is available as a printed volume and as an on-line reference work.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

    Bill Freedman

About the editor

Bill Freedman is an ecologist and professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, where he does research and teaches classes in ecology and environmental science. He is a specialist in the ecological effects of pollution, disturbance, and other stressors, including: the effects of forest harvesting and management on vegetation, wildlife, and site quality; pollution of surface waters; toxic elements; acidification; arctic ecology; the conservation of biodiversity; the design of ecologically sustainable resource-use systems; and curricula in environmental education.

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