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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... Challenges of Climate Change 45 Steve Lonergan 4 Impacts of Climate Change in Canada 73 James P. Bruce and Stewart J. Cohen Part II What Can We Do ? 89 5 Terrestial Carbon Sinks and Climate Change Mitigation 91 Nigel J. Livingston and G ...
... 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 ... challenges of climate change in Canada — what is happening now and what is going vii Preface.
... challenges. The chapters of Part ii focus on terrestrial carbon sinks, technological possibilities, economic responses, regional adaptations, and legal constraints and opportunities. Part iii examines the “hard choices” that the challenge ...
... challenges of designing and implementing policy to deal with climate change. Part iii turns from the question of what it's possible to do to the ques- tion of what ought to be done. In chapter 10, Jim Bruce and Doug Russell survey the ...
... challenges ? Any noun I might choose has polit- ical spin , defines allegiances , presupposes a point of view . Robert Bringhurst puts the point succinctly : Being will be here . Beauty will be here . But this beauty that visits us now ...