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Explains how members of college and university communities can take action on climate change: strategies, projects, and lessons in how to motivate complex organizations to make changes.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rappaport, Ann
Otros Autores: Creighton, Sarah Hammond
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2007.
Colección:Urban and industrial environments.
Temas:
Climatic changes > United States.
Greenhouse gas mitigation > United States.
Global environmental change.
Science > Study and teaching > United States.
Universities and colleges > United States.
Climatic changes.
Global temperature changes.
Education, Higher > Social aspects.
Climate Change
Climat > Changements.
Changement global (Environnement)
Température atmosphérique > Modification à l'échelle planétaire.
Enseignement supérieur > Aspect social.
Climat > Changements > États-Unis.
Gaz à effet de serre > Réduction > États-Unis.
Universités > États-Unis.
climate change.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Environmental > Pollution Control.
Greenhouse gas mitigation.
Science > Study and teaching.
Universities and colleges.
Hochschulpolitik
Klimatologie
Treibhauseffekt
Klimawandel > Universität.
Universität > Klimawandel.
Universität.
United States.
USA.
ENVIRONMENT/General
EDUCATION/General
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of tables, figures, and boxes
  • Foreword / Lawrence S. Bacow
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. A time for action
  • 2. Climate change basics and the university
  • 3. The campus inventory and climate goals
  • 4. Climate actors and climate advocacy
  • 5. Strategy and tactics for climate action
  • 6. Buildings and climate change action
  • 7. Tackling emissions at the source : climate actions in buildings and central facilities
  • 8. Action beyond facilities
  • 9. Planning and policies for climate change
  • 10. Personal action initiatives
  • 11. Climate action in the classroom
  • 12. Degrees that matter
  • Appendixes
  • A. Global warming potential
  • B. Information related to climate change and climate change
  • C. Elements of an emissions inventory
  • D. Emission factors for fuels
  • E. Sample projects for Tufts students
  • F. Article from the Tufts Daily
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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