Climate And Society : Climate As Resource, Climate As Risk.
Climate and Society presents from a transdisciplinary view, climate and its changes, impact and perception. The history of climate and its different approaches over time - which are anthropocentric and more system-oriented, academic and application-driven - are reviewed, as are the possibilities of...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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World Scientific
2009.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover13;
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Overview
- 2. A Historical Overview of Thinking about Climate
- 3. Climate as Limiting Condition and Resource
- 3.1. Climate as an Environmental Experience
- 3.2. Climate as a Scientific System
- 3.3. Climate as a Social Construct
- 3.4. Society and Humans as a Climate Construct
- 4. Climate as Risk and Hazard
- 4.1. The History of Ideas about Climate Change
- 4.2. Natural Climate Variability
- 4.3. Excursus:Who Owns the Weather in 2025?
- 4.4. Anthropogenic Climate Change
- 4.5. Climate Change as a Social Construct
- 4.6. The History of Anthropogenic Climate Catastrophes
- 4.7. The Influence of Climate Changes on Society
- 5. Zeppelin Manifesto on Climate Protection
- 6. Summary and Prospects
- Index.