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Managing the climate crisis : assessing our risks, options, and prospects /

Using a risk management approach to tease apart the complex issue of climate change, this book assesses the key vulnerabilities and redirects the discussion to present a comprehensive plan to overhaul our response to climate change.• Introduces a broader audience to climate change as a crisis alread...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schneider, Robert O.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, [2016]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Using a risk management approach to tease apart the complex issue of climate change, this book assesses the key vulnerabilities and redirects the discussion to present a comprehensive plan to overhaul our response to climate change.• Introduces a broader audience to climate change as a crisis already in motion that poses predictable risks and urgently requires public policy changes and the creation of a national climate policy• Makes the'invisible crisis'of climate change visible and comprehensible by enabling readers to understand the problem in the context of hazard risk and risk management -- Provided by publisher.
Notas:Includes index.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
ISBN:9781440839993
1440839999