Facilitating climate change responses : a report of two workshops on knowledge 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 th...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Addressing the Challenges of Climate Change Through the Behavioral and Social Sciences
Otros Autores: Stern, Paul C., 1944-, Kasperson, Roger E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2010.
Temas:
Climatic changes > Research > Congresses.
Climate change mitigation > Congresses.
Climatic changes > Social aspects > Congresses.
Climat > Changements > Atténuation > Congrès.
Climat > Changements > Aspect social > Congrès.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Environmental > Pollution Control.
Climate change mitigation.
Climatic changes > Research.
Climatic changes > Social aspects.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Public understanding of climate change
  • The potential for limiting climate change through household action
  • Public acceptance of energy technologies
  • Organizational change and the greening of business
  • Climate change adaptation: the state of the science
  • Federal climate change adaptation planning
  • Place-based adaptation cases
  • Adaptation and natural resource management
  • Cross-cutting issues in adaptation
  • Synthesis of key questions for the workshop.

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