Climate and Environmental Change in China: 1951–2012

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Climate, Environmental, and Socioeconomic Characteristics of China

   • Dahe Qin, Shu Tao, Suocheng Dong, Yong Luo

   Pages 1-27

3. Climatic and Environmental Changes in China

   • Yong Luo, Dahe Qin, Renhe Zhang, Shaowu Wang, De’er Zhang

   Pages 29-45

4. The Attribution of Climate Change and Its Uncertainty

   • Guangyu Shi, Yong Luo, Xiaoye Zhang, Guirui Yu, Renhe Zhang, Xuejie Gao et al.

   Pages 47-67

5. Impacts of Climate Change on the Environment, Economy, and Society of China

   • Yongjian Ding, Mu Mu, Jianyun Zhang, Tong Jiang, Tingjun Zhang, Chunyi Wang et al.

   Pages 69-92

6. Projections of Climate Change and Its Impacts

   • Wenjie Dong, Mu Mu, Xuejie Gao

   Pages 93-106

7. Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation: Technology and Policy Options

   • Erda Lin, Kejun Jiang, Xiulian Hu, Juncheng Zuo, Maosong Li, Hui Ju

   Pages 107-127

8. Strategic Options to Address Climate Change

   • Jiahua Pan, Ying Chen, Haibin Zhang, Manzhu Bao, Kunming Zhang

   Pages 129-137

9. Concluding Remarks

   • Dahe Qin, Yong Luo, Guangyu Shi, Yongjian Ding, Wenjie Dong, Erda Lin et al.

   Pages 139-152

Through numerous color figures and tables, this book presents the most up-to-date knowledge on climate and environmental change in China. It documents the evidence and attribution of climate and environmental changes in the past few decades and discusses the impacts of climate change on environments, economy, and society. The book further provides projections of climate change and its impacts in the future. Finally, it offers the climate change mitigation and adaption technologies with strategic options which will be of interest for policy makers, researchers and the general public as well.

• Attribution of Climate Change
• China Climate Change Data
• Climate Change Assessment in China
• Climate Change Data
• Climate Change Impacts
• Climate Change Mitigation
• Environmental Change in China
• Hydrology and Water Resources of China
• Projections of Climate Change
• cryosphere of China
• climate change
• Climate change management

• Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China

  Dahe Qin

• Cold and Arid Regions Environmental, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China

  Yongjian Ding

• The Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China

  Mu Mu

Qin Dahe, a geographer, was born in January 1947. He is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and an academician of the Third World Academy of Sciences. He graduated from the Department of Geography of Lanzhou University in 1970. From then on he engaged to cryosphere science and climate change studies. He has published over 300 papers and books. He systematically studied the physical processes within the Antarctic ice sheet surface snow and the records of climate and environment. Dr. Qin set up the State Key Laboratory on Cryospheric Science in China. He advocated the concept of cryosphere science, and built the framework of cryospheric science from the aspect of interaction between cryosphere and other spheres and the adaptive strategies of cryospheric changes. He involved the third, and leaded the fourth and fifth IPCC scientific assessments, particularly the physical science basis of climate change, which made great contributions to a deeper sight into climate change science. As the administrator of China Meteorology Administration, he hosted the Strategy of Chinese Meteorological Service and Development, putting forward the three strategies: public, security and resources oriented meteorology. He is the pioneer in opening the door of science data sharing in China. IPCC undertaking he involved gain him a 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, and Dr. Qin got the International Meteorological Organization Prize, elected Honory member of American Meteorology Society (AMS), bestPaper Award granted by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of US, and 2013 Volvo Environmental Prize.

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