Climate Change Science and Policy - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1597265675 ISBN 13: 9781597265676

Publisher: Island Press, 2009

Synopsis

This is the most comprehensive and current reference resource on climate change available today. It features forty-nine individual chapters by some of the world’s leading climate scientists. Its five sections address climate change in five dimensions: ecological impacts, policy analysis, international considerations, United States considerations, and mitigation options to reduce carbon emissions.  In many ways, this volume supersedes the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Many important developments too recent to be treated in the 2007 IPCC documents are covered here. Overall, Climate Change Science and Policy paints a direr picture of the effects of climate change than do the IPCC reports. It reveals that climate change has progressed faster than the IPCC reports anticipated and that the outlook for the future is bleaker than the IPCC reported.

About this title

About the Author:

Stephen H. Schneider is the Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, professor of biology, and a senior fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment, at Stanford University. Armin Rosencranz is the founder and former president of Pacific Environment.
 Michael D. Mastrandrea is a consulting assistant professor at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. Kristin Kuntz-Duriseti is managing editor at Climatic Change.

Review:

"Climate Change Science and Policy is the first book to successfully combine a discussion of the current state of climate science with ideas for climate mitigation in a comprehensive, yet surprisingly readable, collection of papers by authors working in both the physical and social sciences....This book presents the information needed to understand the myriad issues that define this effort...Highly recommended." (CHOICE)

"This book's audience, in my view is a broad one: [all] who have the appetite and capacity for mastering the level of technical detail needed to understand—really understand—what global climate disruption is, where it is headed, what can be done, and how. No other book that I'm aware of offers this one's combination, for these purposes, of comprehensiveness, authoritativeness, currency, and readability . . . The intellectual terrain it covers is vast and sometimes demanding, but it will repay the efforts of all those able and willing to traverse it. May many do so." (John P. Holdren Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology)

About this edition

• Publisher: Island Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1597265675
• ISBN 13: 9781597265676
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 544
• Editor: Schneider Stephen H., Rosencranz Armin, Mastrandrea Michael D., Kuntz-Duriseti Kristin