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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... reports named, there, alone in the dark on a New Brunswick highway, I felt profoundly at home—connected, through the significance of weather, to a life like my own. 5. Before the move to the Maritimes, I'd spent several years in ...
... reports of three early European visitors to the region, noting differences in rhetorical style which may also have influenced the Canadian government's decision to promote European colonization. The three accounts in question are to be ...
... report stating that there is now new and stronger evidence that most of the climate warming observed over the last50 years is attributable to human activities. This powerful statement by the world's leading climate scientists sends a ...
... reports organized by the United Nations Environment Programme (unep), International Council of Scientific Unions (icsu), and the World Meteorological Organization (wmo) were especially influential. The Second Joint unep/icsu/wmo ...
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