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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... approach to the challenge of climate change in Canada. Special attention is given to Canada's response to the Kyoto Pro- tocol and to an assessment of the overall adequacy of Kyoto as a response to the global challenge of climate change ...
... approaches and traditions is often intense . Of course , it's also possible for interest in any sort of therapy to be entirely absent . To pursue treatment , one must first be willing to acknowl- edge one has a disease . Denial , as we ...
... approach was far from a diagnostic curve - fitting exercise . Rather , a model built on physical princi- ples was used to simulate the climate's response to independent estimates of historical climate forcing . The striking level of ...
... approach to mitigation ( see chap . 5 ) . At the same time , regional adaptation strategies need to be developed for the change that is already in the pipeline ( chap . 8 ) . The science behind the projections of regional climate change ...
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