Climate Change: An Integrated Perspective
Editors: Martens, Pim, Rotmans, J. (Eds.)
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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.
- Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Climate Change: An Integrated Perspective
Pages 1-10
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The Climate System
Pages 11-50
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Modelling of the Climate System
Pages 51-104
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Global Biogeochemical Cycles
Pages 105-142
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Causes of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Pages 143-200
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Climate Change: An Integrated Perspective
- Editors
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- Pim Martens
- J. Rotmans
- Series Title
- Advances in Global Change Research
- Series Volume
- 1
- Copyright
- 1999
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-306-47982-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/0-306-47982-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-7923-5996-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-90-481-5331-2
- Series ISSN
- 1574-0919
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XV, 414
- Topics
