Facilitating Climate Change Responses : a Report of Two Workshops on Insights from the Social and Behavioral Sciences.

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, understanding the need for policy makers at the national level to entrain the behavioral and social sciences in addressing the challenges of global climate change, called on the National Research Council to organize two workshops to showcase some of the deci...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: National Research Council (U.S.) (Autor)
Otros Autores: Stern, Paul C. (Editor ), Kasperson, Roger E. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: National Academies Press 2010.
Temas:
Climatic changes > Research.
Climate change mitigation.
Climatic changes > Social aspects.
Climat > Changements > Atténuation.
Climat > Changements > Aspect social.
Climate change mitigation
Climatic changes > Research
Climatic changes > Social aspects
Electronic resource.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover13;
  • FrontMatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Public Understanding and Mitigation of Climate Change
  • 1 Public Understanding of Climate Change
  • 2 The Potential for Limiting Climate Change Through Household Action
  • 3 Public Acceptance of Energy Technologies
  • 4 Organizational Change and the Greening of Business
  • Part II: Adapting to Climate Change
  • 5 Climate Change Adaptation: The State of the Science
  • 6 Federal Climate Change Adaptation Planning
  • 7 Place-Based Adaptation Cases
  • 8 Adaptation and Natural Resource Management
  • 9 Cross-Cutting Issues in Adaptation
  • 10 Synthesis of Key Questions for the Workshop
  • References
  • Appendix A: December 2009 Workshop Agenda and List of Participants
  • Appendix B: April 2010 Workshop Agenda and List of Participants
  • Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff.

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