Climate Change and Variability

Suzanne Simard

ISBN 10: 9533071443 / ISBN 13: 9789533071442

Published by Intechopen Aug 2010, 2010

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Climate change is emerging as one of the most important issues of our time, with the potential to cause profound cascading effects on ecosystems and society. However, these effects are poorly understood and our projections for climate change trends and effects have thus far proven to be inaccurate. In this collection of 24 chapters, we present a cross-section of some of the most challenging issues related to oceans, lakes, forests, and agricultural systems under a changing climate. The authors present evidence for changes and variability in climatic and atmospheric conditions, investigate some the impacts that climate change is having on the Earth's ecological and social systems, and provide novel ideas, advances and applications for mitigation and adaptation of our socio-ecological systems to climate change. Difficult questions are asked. What have been some of the impacts of climate change on our natural and managed ecosystems How do we manage for resilient socio-ecological systems How do we predict the future What are relevant climatic change and management scenarios How can we shape management regimes to increase our adaptive capacity to climate change These themes are visited across broad spatial and temporal scales, touch on important and relevant ecological patterns and processes, and represent broad geographic regions, from the tropics, to temperate and boreal regions, to the Arctic. 502 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Climate Change and Variability
• Publisher: Intechopen Aug 2010
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9533071443
• ISBN 13: 9789533071442
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 266W x 185H x 39D millimeters 266 millimeters width by 185 millimeters height by 39 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1290 grams

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Climate change is emerging as one of the most important issues of our time, with the potential to cause profound cascading effects on ecosystems and society. However, these effects are poorly understood and our projections for climate change trends and effects have thus far proven to be inaccurate. In this collection of 24 chapters, we present a cross-section of some of the most challenging issues related to oceans, lakes, forests, and agricultural systems under a changing climate. The authors present evidence for changes and variability in climatic and atmospheric conditions, investigate some the impacts that climate change is having on the Earth's ecological and social systems, and provide novel ideas, advances and applications for mitigation and adaptation of our socio-ecological systems to climate change. Difficult questions are asked. What have been some of the impacts of climate change on our natural and managed ecosystems? How do we manage for resilient socio-ecological systems? How do we predict the future? What are relevant climatic change and management scenarios? How can we shape management regimes to increase our adaptive capacity to climate change? These themes are visited across broad spatial and temporal scales, touch on important and relevant ecological patterns and processes, and represent broad geographic regions, from the tropics, to temperate and boreal regions, to the Arctic.