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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... environmental— what ? ... crises ? difficulties ? 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 ...
... environmental disruption, and their ability to respond—part of their vulnerability—is extremely lim- ited. The human challenges of climate change are closely tied to the in- equitable distribution of causes, consequences, and response ...
... environmental conditions , economic systems , culture , and other socioeconomic and behavioural attributes . This makes modeling the links between land use change and climate change complex and difficult . The challenge for society is ...
... environmental degradation create inequities (or the perception of inequities) in resource distribution that often contribute to insecurity, and conflicts and tensions over natural resources such as energy and freshwater have been well ...
... environmental change. The inability to adapt to rapid or extreme changes in climate is a major challenge for human systems. Abrupt changes may also force ecological and human systems beyond important thresholds. It seems clear that bio ...