Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Climate Change: An Integrated Perspective

  • Book
  • © 1999

Overview

Editors:
  1. Pim Martens

    1. International Centre for Integrative Studies (ICIS), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. Jan Rotmans

    1. International Centre for Integrative Studies (ICIS), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  3. Darco Jansen

    1. Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Environmental, Science and Engineering, Open University, Heerlen, The Netherlands

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  4. Koos Vrieze

    1. Department of Mathematics, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

Part of the book series: Advances in Global Change Research (AGLO, volume 1)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Climate Change: An Integrated Perspective

    • P. Martens, J. Rotmans
    Pages 1-10

  3. The Climate System

    • D. Jansen
    Pages 11-50

  4. Modelling of the Climate System

    • J. Shukla, J. L. Kinter, E. K. Schneider, D. M. Straus
    Pages 51-104

  5. Global Biogeochemical Cycles

    • J. Rotmans, M. den Elzen
    Pages 105-142

  6. Causes of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

    • K. Chatterjee
    Pages 143-200

  7. Impact Assessment of Climate Change

    • M. L. Parry, P. Martens
    Pages 201-238

  8. Integrated Assessment Modelling

    • J. Rotmans, M. van Asselt
    Pages 239-275

  9. Perspectives and the Subjective Dimension in Modelling

    • M. van Asselt, J. Rotmans
    Pages 277-317

  10. Global Decision Making: Climate Change Politics

    • J. Gupta
    Pages 319-356

  11. Epilogue: Scientific Advice in the World of Power Politics

    • S. Boehmer-Christiansen, J. W. von Goethe
    Pages 357-403

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 405-414
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

Global climate change - rapid, substantial and human induced - may have radical consequences for life on earth. The problem is a complex one, however, demanding a multi-disciplinary approach. A simple cost-benefit analysis cannot capture the essentials, nor can the issue be reduced to an emissions reduction game, as the Kyoto process tries to do. It is much more sensible to adopt an integrative approach, which reveals that global climate change needs to be considered as a spider in a web, a triggering factor for a range of other, related problems - land use changes, water supply and demand, food supply, energy supply, human health, air pollution, etc. But an approach like this, which takes account of all items of knowledge, known and uncertain, does not produce clear-cut, final and popular answers. It does provide useful insights, however, which will allow comprehensive and effective long-term climate strategies to be put into effect.
Climate Change: An Integrated Perspective will appeal to a broad spectrum of readers. It is a useful source for the climate-change professionals, such as policy makers and analysts, natural and social scientists. It is also suitable for educationalists, students and indeed anyone interested in the fascinating world of multidisciplinary research underlying our approach to this global change issue.

Editors and Affiliations

  • International Centre for Integrative Studies (ICIS), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

    Pim Martens, Jan Rotmans

  • Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Environmental, Science and Engineering, Open University, Heerlen, The Netherlands

    Darco Jansen

  • Department of Mathematics, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

    Koos Vrieze

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Climate Change: An Integrated Perspective

  • Editors: Pim Martens, Jan Rotmans, Darco Jansen, Koos Vrieze

  • Series Title: Advances in Global Change Research

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47982-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1999

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-5996-8Published: 31 October 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5331-2Published: 06 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-306-47982-3Published: 11 April 2006

  • Series ISSN: 1574-0919

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1621

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 414

  • Topics: Atmospheric Sciences, Climate Change, Environmental Management, Ecotoxicology

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation