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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... major symptoms or for apparently trivial reasons. Carlo Ginzburg, in a discussion of scientific method (1980), has linked such diagnostic sensitivity both to connoisseurship and to “detective” ability, that is, to a general sensitivity ...
... major economic overhaul, most individuals are not (yet!) willing to give up on many of the goods and services that greenhouse-gas-emitting technologies provide. Nor do industrialized and industrializing nations seem poised to embrace ...
... major changes observed in the twentieth century. It is important to note that the observed changes are internally consistent with each other, as well as with physical intuition, without needing to appeal to complicated coupled ...
... major thrust of international coupled modelling efforts over the next few years will be the development of a terrestrial and oceanic carbon cycle modelling capability for use in climate change projections on which policy will be based ...
... Major Human Causes of Climate Change? Land use and land-cover change The role of human activities in changing the land cover is central to the study of environmental change. Almost 20% of the world's forests have been converted to ...