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Climate change : what it means for us, our children, and our grandchildren / edited by Joseph F.C. DiMento and Pamela Doughman.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- American and comparative environmental policy.
- American and comparative environmental policy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climatic changes--History.
- Climatic changes.
- Climatic changes--Social aspects.
- Communication in science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007.
- Summary:
- Explains what science knows about climate change, how it will affect us, its impact on different areas, and what we can do about it.
- Contents:
- Contents; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 - Introduction: Making Climate Change Understandable; 2 - A Primer on Global Climate Change and Its Likely Impacts; 3 - Climate-Change Effects: Global and Local Views; 4 - The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change: How Do We Know We're Not Wrong?; 5 - Climate Change: How the World is Responding; 6 - Climate Change as News: Challenges in Communicating Environmental Science; 7 - Climate Change and Human Security; 8 - Climate Change: What It Means to Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren; Glossary; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612098864
- 9780262303415
- 0262303418
- 9781282098862
- 1282098861
- 9780262271752
- 0262271753
- 9781435603103
- 1435603109
- OCLC:
- 875633405
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