Monitoring climate change impacts : metrics at the intersection of the human and Earth systems /

"The stresses associated with climate change are expected to be felt keenly as human population grows to a projected 9 billion by the middle of this century, increasing the demand for resources and supporting infrastructure. Therefore, information to assess vulnerabilities to climate change is...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Indicators for Understanding Global Climate Change
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2010.
Temas:
Climatic changes.
Climate change mitigation.
Global environmental change.
Climatic changes > Risk management.
Climate Change
Climat > Changements.
Climat > Changements > Atténuation.
Changement global (Environnement)
Climat > Changements > Gestion du risque.
climate change.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Environmental > Pollution Control.
Climate change mitigation
Climatic changes
Climatic changes > Risk management
Global environmental change
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Domains of human vulnerability and global-scale processes
  • Climate change metrics at the intersection of the human and Earth systems
  • Final thoughts.

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