Overview

In recent years, future climate change has increasingly been recognized as one of the most important issues of the twenty-first century, challenging the very structure of our global society. No longer just an abstruse scientific concern, it prompts difficult choices for both individuals and governments. Moreover, it is of the first importance to those working in disciplines such as climatology, engineering, economics, sociology, geopolitics, local politics, law, and global health. Emanating from across the social and natural sciences, as well as in the humanities, serious scholarship on future climate change flourishes now as it has never done before, and this new title in the Routledge series, Critical Concepts in the Environment, meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of a vast literature -- and the continuing explosion in research output. Edited by leading scholars in the field, this new Routledge Major Work is a four-volume collection of foundational and cutting-edge contributions. The first volume (Science) in the collection deals with the development of the science of global warming and climate change, starting with Tyndall (1861), through to the IPCC synthesis (2007), and ending with the very latest research. Volume two (Impact Assessments), meanwhile, assembles the best thinking on how the potential physical, biological, social-political, and economic impacts of climate change are assessed. This volume also includes material on potential surprises that science is starting to investigate, such as the rapid melting of the Greenland and Western Antarctic ice sheets, die back of the Amazon rainforest, release of gas hydrates, and other tipping points. The third volume (Politics and Solutions) gathers the most influential research on climate-change solutions; it encompasses global and local politics, engineering, renewable energy, and geoengineering. The final volume in the collection (Framing the Debate) brings together key scholarship to question and explore how the climate-change debate has been framed and reframed as a scientific, economic, security, health, development, geopolitical, ethical, and cultural issue. With comprehensive introductions to each volume, newly written by the editors, which place the collected material in its historical and intellectual context, Future Climate Change is an essential collection destined to be welcomed as a vital research resource by all scholars and students of the subject.

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Author:   Mark Maslin ,  Samuel Randalls (University College London, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   3.980kg
ISBN:  

9780415569811

ISBN 10:   0415569818
Pages:   2064
Publication Date:   13 December 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Mixed media product
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Volume 1: Science 1. Classics 2. Climate Science Volume 2: Impact Assessments 3. Regional Specific Impacts 4. Biodiversity 5. Health Impacts 6. Tipping Points and Surprises Volume 3: Politics and Solutions 7. Politics 8. Kyoto Politics 9. Post-Kyoto Politics 10. Global Solutions 11. Solutions 12. Energy and Transport Solutions 13. Market Solutions 14. Sustainable Cities 15. Geoengineering Volume 4: Framing the Debate 16. Why Framing? 17. Development Framings 18. Economic Framings 19. Ethics/Justice Framings 20. Health Framings 21. Cultural and Behavioural Framings 22. Security Framings 23. Science-Policy-Politics Framings 24. Alternative Framings 25. Artistic Framings 26. Beyond Climate Change?

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... this is an impressive collection of writings that will be utilized as a valuable multidisciplinary reference on climate change for at least a decade. Summing Up: Highly recommended - J. Schoof, CHOICE, November 2012

... this is an impressive collection of writings that will be utilized as a valuable multidisciplinary reference on climate change for at least a decade. - J. Schoof, CHOICE, November 2012

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