Climate Change : Research and Technology for Adaptation and Mitigation / edited by Juan Blanco, Houshang Kheradmand.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Houshang Kheradmand

Contributor:

Kheradmand, Houshang, editor.

Blanco, Juan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (504 pages)

Other Title:

Climate change

Place of Publication:

IntechOpen 2011

[Place of publication not identified] : IntechOpen, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book provides an interdisciplinary view of how to prepare the ecological and socio-economic systems to the reality of climate change. Scientifically sound tools are needed to predict its effects on regional, rather than global, scales, as it is the level at which socio-economic plans are designed and natural ecosystem reacts. The first section of this book describes a series of methods and models to downscale the global predictions of climate change, estimate its effects on biophysical systems and monitor the changes as they occur. To reduce the magnitude of these changes, new ways of economic activity must be implemented. The second section of this book explores different options to reduce greenhouse emissions from activities such as forestry, industry and urban development. However, it is becoming increasingly clear that climate change can be minimized, but not avoided, and therefore the socio-economic systems around the world will have to adapt to the new conditions to reduce the adverse impacts to the minimum. The last section of this book explores some options for adaptation.

Notes:

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (InTech, viewed October 22, 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789535144441

9535144448