science, policy, and practice Burch, Sarah L. (Sarah Lynn) 1980- creator Harris, Sara E. 1969- text bibliography Textbooks. onc 2014 monographic eng

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xii, 307 pages, 7 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. Conversations about climate change are filled with challenges involving complex data, deeply held values, and political issues. Understanding Climate Change provides readers with a concise, accessible, and holistic picture of the climate change problem, including both the scientific and human dimensions. Understanding Climate Change examines climate change as both a scientific and a public policy issue. Sarah L. Burch and Sara E. Harris explain the basics of the climate system, climate models and prediction, and human and biophysical impacts, as well as strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, enhancing adaptability, and enabling climate change governance. The authors examine the connections between climate change and other pressing issues, such as human health, poverty, and other environmental problems, and they explore the ways that sustainable responses to climate change can simultaneously address those issues. An effective and integrated introduction to an urgent and controversial issue, this book contains the tools needed for students, instructors, and decision-makers to become constructive participants in the human response to climate change. Sarah L. Burch and Sara E. Harris. Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-297) and index. Climatic changes Textbooks Cambios climáticos QC 903 B947u 2014 363.738/74 9781442614451 (pbk.) 1442614455 (pbk.) 1442646527 (cloth : acidfree paper) 9781442646520 (cloth : acidfree paper) 2014427824 NLC 140911 20230411090900.0 18298536 eng