Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and

Providing an up-to-date synthesis of all knowledge relevant to the climate change issue, this book ranges from the basic science documenting the need for policy action to the technologies, economic instruments and political strategies that can be employed in response to climate change. Ethical and cultural issues constraining the societal response to climate change are also discussed. This book provides a handbook for those who want to understand and contribute to meeting this challenge. It covers a very wide range of disciplines - core biophysical sciences involved with climate change (geosciences, atmospheric sciences, ocean sciences, ecology/biology) as well as economics, political science, health sciences, institutions and governance, sociology, ethics and philosophy, and engineering. As such it will be invaluable for a wide range of researchers and professionals wanting a cutting-edge synthesis of climate change issues, and for advanced student courses on climate change.

List of contributors
Foreword
Preface
List of acronyms and abbreviations
Climatic Trends:
Identifying, monitoring and predicting change in the climate system
The oceans and the climate system
Sea level rise and ice sheet dynamics
Carbon cycle trends and vulnerabilities
Defining 'Dangerous Climate Change':
The impact of climate change on human societies
Impacts of climate change on the biotic fabric of the planet
Tipping elements: jokers in the pack
Linking science and action: targets, timetables and emission budgets
Equity Issues:
The equity challenge and climate policy: responsibilities, vulnerabilities and inequality in the response to climate change
A long-term perspective on climate change: values and ethics
Mitigation and Adaptation Approaches:
Low-carbon energy technologies as mitigation approaches
Economic approaches and instruments
Geopolitics and governance
Adapting to the unavoidable
Meeting the Challenge:
Integrating adaptation, mitigation and sustainable development
Mobilising the population
The human-Earth relationship: past, present and future
Index
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Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions

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