|
Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Pollution & threats to the environment > Global warming
|
Buy Now
Our Warming Planet: Climate Change Impacts And Adaptation (Paperback)
Loot Price: R2,541
Discovery Miles 25 410
|
|
|
Our Warming Planet: Climate Change Impacts And Adaptation (Paperback)
Series: Lectures In Climate Change, 2
Expected to ship within 9 - 17 working days
|
This volume, the second in the Lectures in Climate Change series,
covers the full array of climate impacts and adaptation measures.
It has been brought together by friends and colleagues of Dr Martin
Parry, Co-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) 2007 assessment on impacts and adaptation. The writers are
experts in this field and have been lead authors in many of the
IPCC assessments and other major publications.Lectures in Climate
Change is a unique combination of written text plus electronic
slides that together comprise an informative and up-to-date set of
presentations. This second volume, entitled Our Warming Planet:
Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation, covers areas of climate
impacts related to climate science, methods and approaches,
sectors, regional and national studies, and policy and practice.The
volume comprises topics such as current and future challenges of
climate change, global assessments, downscaling, community-based
adaptation, impacts on biodiversity, food systems, water resources,
and cities. Research from across the world is presented on making
science actionable through assessments, early warning and early
action, communicating climate risk, documenting the uptake of
adaptation on the global front, and transformation towards systemic
resilience.Included with this publication are downloadable
electronic slides and accompanying notes of each lecture for
students, teachers, and public speakers around the world to be
better able to understand and present climate change impacts and
adaptation.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
