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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... Adaptation Strategies 151 Stewart Cohen , Brad Bass , David Etkin , Brenda Jones , Jacinthe Lacroix , Brian Mills , Daniel Scott , and G. Cornelis van Kooten 9 Legal Constraints and Opportunities : Climate Change and the Law 179 ...
... adapt to extreme variations of weather and climate in Canada's various regions, from changes in coastal fisheries to droughts on the prairies and loss of glaciers in the Rocky Mountains: yet the climate change facing us, together with ...
... adaptations, and legal constraints and opportunities. Part iii examines the “hard choices” that the challenge of climate change presents to us in terms of Canadian policy developments, developments beyond Kyoto for Canada and the world ...
... adapt to climate change rather than on attempts to mitigate it. In chapter 8, Stewart Cohen and company offer another reason to concentrate on adaptation when they return to one of the bits of bad news from chapter 2: there's a lag time ...
... adaptation strategies that will respond to the conse- quences resulting from those choices . This chapter presents a review of the science of climate change , start- ing with a discussion of the 200 - year history of the science leading ...