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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... 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 of climate ...
... chapters in Part i take up two other common ques- tions : Is there usually a lot of pain ? and : What about my specific case ? How bad's it going to be ? In chapter 3 , Steve Lonergan documents the occur- ring and expected consequences ...
... chapter 5, but only in the short run. Ged McLean and Murray Love, in chapter 6, argue that alterna- tive energy sources for the goods and services we want are indeed avail- able —but not as handily, or immediately, or as free of nasty ...
... chapter 11 , the history and effectiveness of the Kyoto Protocol , a multilateral agreement to reduce global green- house gas emissions , is explored by Gordon Smith and David Victor . Their conclusion is that Kyoto as it stands will ...
... chapter presents a review of the science of climate change , start- ing with a discussion of the 200 - year history of the science leading up to our present - day understanding of global warming . Since much of the observa- tional ...