Global change and local places : estimating, understanding, and reducing greenhouse gases /

How do our everyday lives affect climate change? This book compares four different sites in the United States, and looks at the human factors affecting climate change (such as greenhouse gas emissions), how these factors are changing, and what can be done to mitigate the effects at a local level.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Association of American Geographers. Global Change and Local Places Research Team
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Temas:
Greenhouse gases > Environmental aspects.
Air quality management.
Climatic changes.
Gaz à effet de serre > Aspect de l'environnement.
Air > Qualité > Gestion.
Climat > Changements.
climate change.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Environmental > Pollution Control.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 A grand query: how scale matters in global change research; 2 The research strategy: linking the local to the global; 3 Global change and Southwestern Kansas: local emissions and non-local determinants; 4 Northwestern North Carolina: local diversity in an era of change; 5 Northwestern Ohio: re-industrialization and emission reduction; 6 Global change and Central Pennsylvania: local resources and impacts of mitigation.

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