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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... technological, economic, political, ethical, and religious perspectives. The large and complex literatures involved from each disciplinary per- spective have been summarized and interpreted for the Canadian context, offering a ...
... technological possibilities, economic responses, regional adaptations, and legal constraints and opportunities. Part iii examines the “hard choices” that the challenge of climate change presents to us in terms of Canadian policy ...
... technologies provide. Nor do industrialized and industrializing nations seem poised to embrace sharply negative population growth, which would be a means of tackling the prob- lem from the other end. These, then, are the constraints on ...
... technologies that will most effectively achieve the appropriate levels of net greenhouse gas emis- sions and develop the adaptation strategies that will respond to the conse- quences resulting from those choices . This chapter presents ...
... by making assumptions about future economic and population growth, technological change, energy use, etc. Clearly, it is difficult if not impossible to make accurate projections of these 24 What's [Going] to Happen[ing]?