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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... agricultural settlement could be sustained there , not the dry stuff that's since made it difficult ( Herriot , 2000 , pp . 154–55 ) . So , yes , maybe there's a drought underway , but 1 ) there's no telling how bad it will be , and 2 ...
... Agriculture 1% Commercial 5% Industrial 15% Non-combustion sources 8% Residential 8% Other 9% Public Administration Pipelines 1% 2% Power generation 20% What Are the Human Consequences of Climate Change? Introduction A. Figure 3.3. C02 ...
... agricultural productivity, and economic output, and may lead to coastal flooding and the creation of “environmental refugees.” Sea-level rise, now projected to be between 0.2 and0.6 metres under a scenario of doubling CO2 levels, will ...
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