Canada and climate change /

"Pandemics, massive earthquakes, war, and other catastrophes inspire immediate action because their casualties and destruction are immediately visible. Climate change is a unyielding problem because its long-range dangers are hidden, and thus it is a global risk unlike anything in human experie...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Leiss, William, 1939- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : Published for the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada by McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022.
Colección:Canadian essentials ; 2
Temas:
Climatic changes > Canada.
Climatic changes > Government policy > Canada.
Environmental policy > Canada.
Climat > Changements > Canada.
Environnement > Politique gouvernementale > Canada.
SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change.
Climatic changes
Climatic changes > Government policy
Environmental policy
Canada
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • CANADA AND CLIMATE CHANGE
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Tables and Figures
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1 What Is Climate?
  • 2 The Pleistocene and Holocene Epochs
  • 3 Predictions of Climate Science
  • 4 Trusting Climate Science
  • 5 Canada: Negotiating Climate Change
  • 6 Treaty Framing and Climate Science
  • 7 Managing the Risks of Global Warming
  • 8 Canada: Mitigation, Impacts, and Adaptation
  • Reminiscences and Acknowledgments
  • Appendix 1: Notes and Calculations for Table 6.4
  • Appendix 2: The Risk Approach in IPCC'S AR6
  • Impacts of Climate Change

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