Hard Choices: Climate Change in CanadaWilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 2004 M06 24 - 273 pages Drought, floods, hurricanes, forest fires, ice storms, blackouts, dwindling fish stocks...what Canadian has not experienced one of these or more, or heard about the “greenhouse” effect, and not wondered what is happening to our climate? Yet most of us have a poor understanding of this extremely important issue, and need better, reliable scientific information. Hard Choices: Climate Change in Canada delivers some hard facts to help us make some of those hard choices. This new collection of essays by leading Canadian scientists, engineers, social scientists, and humanists offers an overview and assessment of climate change and its impacts on Canada from physical, social, technological, economic, political, and ethical / religious perspectives. Interpreting and summarizing the large and complex literatures from each of these disciplines, the book offers a multidisciplinary approach to the challenges we face in Canada. Special attention is given to Canada’s response to the Kyoto Protocol, as well as an assessment of the overall adequacy of Kyoto as a response to the global challenge of climate change. Hard Choices fills a gap in available books which provide readers with reliable information on climate change and its impacts that are specific to Canada. While written for the general reader, it is also well suited for use as an undergraduate text in environmental studies courses. |
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... Alberta farm and her worries over Canada's changing weather patterns. Following this narrative introduction, Part iprovides an overview of the scientific and human challenges of climate change in Canada — what is happening now and what ...
... Alberta , everything depended on it : what you put on in the morning and what you ate for breakfast ; what you did at any given hour of the day and whom you did it with ; my grandfather's , my mother's , and my own mood . And we talked ...
... Alberta . “ Remember I said I was moving the outhouse ? Herb was in to dig the hole today . ” Pause . “ It was dry six feet down . Like dust . ” That's all she said . I couldn't think of anything to say either . She knew I knew that my ...
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