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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... Forest Biology, the Institute for Integrated Energy Systems, and the Climate Modelling Group, all at the University of Victoria. Special thanks are due to Connie Carter, for- mer administrator, Centre for Studies in Religion and Society ...
... forests have been converted to cropland and pastureland over the past 300 years (Richards, 1990). The alteration of the ... Forest and Woodlands Grassland and Pasture Croplands Area in 1700 (millions of hectares) 6,215 6,860 265 Source ...
... forest land — contributes enormous amounts of CO2 to the atmos- phere ( see chap . 5 ) . However , land cover can ... forestry ( lulucf ) activities play an important role in international policy being developed to address climate change ...
... forests (see chap. 5), water supplies, coastal ecosystems, and human health (Royal Society, 2001). Some of the problems include increased fire and pest out- breaks in our boreal forests, higher heat wave mortality in major cities ...
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