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Global Change and Local Places

Estimating, Understanding, and Reducing Greenhouse Gases

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Produktbeschreibung

A study of local impacts on climate change for researchers and policy makers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9780521006682
• ISBN-10: 0521006686
• Artikelnr.: 30977177

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; Foreword Robert E. Corell; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I. Global Change and Local Places: 1. A grand query: how scale matters in global change research Robert W. Kates and Thomas J. Wilbanks; 2. The research strategy: linking the local to the global Thomas J. Wilbanks
Robert W. Kates
David P. Angel
Susan L. Cutter
William E. Easterling
and Michael W. Mayfield; Part II. Learning from Localities: 3. Global change and Southwestern Kansas: local emissions and non-local determinants John Harrington Jr.
David E. Kromm
Lissa M. B. Harrington
Douglas G. Goodin
and Stephen E. White; 4. Northwestern North Carolina: local diversity in an era of change Neal G. Lineback
Michael W. Mayfield
and Jennifer DeHart; 5. Northwestern Ohio: re-industrialization and emission reduction Samuel A. Aryeetey-Attoh
Peter S. Lindquist
William A. Muraco
and Neil Reid; 6. Global change and Central Pennsylvania: local resources and impacts of mitigation Andrea S. Denny
Brent Yarnal
Colin Polsky
and Steve Lachman; Part III. Beyond Kyoto I: Greenhouse Gas Reduction in Local Places: 7. Changing places and changing emissions: comparing local
state
and United States emissions William E. Easterling
Colin Polsky
Douglas G. Goodin
Michael W. Mayfield
William A. Muraco
and Brent Yarnal; 8. Explaining greenhouse gas emissions from localities David P. Angel
Samuel A. Aryeetey-Attoh
Jennifer DeHart
David E. Kromm
and Stephen E. White; 9. Attitudes toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions from local places Susan L. Cutter
Jerry T. Mitchell
Arleen A. Hill
Lisa M. B. Harrington
Sylvia-Linda Kaktins
William A. Muraco
Jennifer De Hart
Audrey Reynolds
and Robin Shudak; 10. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions: learning from local analogs C. Gregory Knight
Susan L. Cutter
Jennifer DeHart
Andrea S. Denny
David G. Howard
Sylvia-Linda Kaktins
David E. Kromm
Stephen E. White
and Brent Yarnal; Part VI. Beyond Kyoto II: Greenhouse Gas Reduction Potentials and Strategies: 11. Long-term potentials for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from local area Thomas J. Wilbanks and Robert W. Kates; 12. Global change and local places: lessons learned Robert W. Kates
Thomas J. Wilbanks
and Ronald F. Abler; Index.