Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change, Second Edition - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1412992613 ISBN 13: 9781412992619

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2012

Synopsis

The First Edition of the Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change provided a multi-authored, academic yet non-technical resource for students and teachers to understand the importance of global warming, to appreciate the effects of human activity and greenhouse gases around the world, and to learn the history of climate change and the research enterprise examining it. This edition was well received, with notable reviews. Since its publication, the debate over the advent of global warming at least partially brought on by human enterprise has continued to ebb and flow, depending literally on the weather, politics, and media coverage of climate summits and debates. Advances in research also change the discourse as new data is collected and new scientific projects continue to explore and explain global warming and climate change. Thus, a new, Second Edition updates more than half of the original entries and adds new perspectives and content to keep students and researchers up-to-date in a field that has proven provocatively lively.

About this title

About the Author:

S. George Philander, Knox Taylor Professor of Geosciences at Princeton University and Research Director of ACCESS (African Centre for Climate and Earth System Science) in Cape Town, South Africa, has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Cape Town and a Ph.D. (Applied Mathematics) from Harvard University.  He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Meteorological Society.  Dr. Philander’s research interests include the oceanic circulation, interactions between the ocean and atmosphere that result in phenomena such as El Niño and La Niña, paleoclimates (including the recurrent Ice Ages of the past three million years), and future global climate changes.  His two books for laypersons, Is the Temperature Rising? The Uncertain Science of Global Warming and Our Affair With El Niño: How We Transformed an Enchanting Peruvian Current Into a Global Climate Hazard, reflect his keen interest in improving communications between scientists and laymen.  The goal of the African climate center, which Dr. Philander is currently directing, is to give Africa its own voice on environmental issues such as global warming.

From Booklist:

The second edition of The Encyclopedia of Global Warming & Climate Change is a complete update, with 40 new articles. In addition, more than 50 percent of the content has been revised and updated in the four years since initial publication. The layout has also changed slightly, with the full-color introduction found in each volume of the original edition gone and the index now solely found at the end of volume 3. A “Reader’s Guide” groups thematically related entries together by broad topic areas, including “Atmospheric Sciences” and “Policies and Conventions,” as well as by country. Indeed, one of the informational draws of the encyclopedia remains the entries on each country of the world (although the newest UN member, South Sudan, receives only a small paragraph within the entry on Sudan). The brief bibliographies found at the end of articles in the first edition have been expanded into fully cited reading lists, easing students locating further material. There are more than 750 entries, some with illustrations, such as black-and-white photographs and charts. The online edition, available through the Sage Reference platform, contains video clips, audio clips, and full color graphics. As in the first edition, multiple perspectives on global warming are presented. However, all are based in scientific reality and not in baseless opinion (as in some information collections found on the Internet.) Most of the articles are easy to understand and serve as an introduction to the large variety of topics related to global warming. This new edition is a useful purchase for public and academic libraries in a subject that is constantly in need of updating. Libraries owning the first edition will want to replace it with this updated version. --Steve Stratton

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1412992613
• ISBN 13: 9781412992619
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 1720
• Editor: Philander George