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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Richard AspinallPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 21.90cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 27.60cm Weight: 0.793kg ISBN: 9781138852402ISBN 10: 1138852406 Pages: 330 Publication Date: 14 August 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPart 1: Introduction 1. Geographical Perspectives on Climate Change Part 2: Articles 2. Beyond Adapting to Climate Change: Embedding Adaptation in Responses to Multiple Threats and Stresses 3. Changes in Annual Land-Surface Precipitation Over the Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century 4. The Changing Geography of the U.S. Water Budget: Twentieth-Century Patterns and Twenty-First-Century Projections 5. The Columbian Encounter and the Little Ice Age: Abrupt Land Use Change, Fire, and Greenhouse Forcing 6. Climate Change and Mountain Topographic Evolution in the Central Karakoram, Pakistan 7. Climate Change and Tropical Andean Glacier Recession: Evaluating Hydrologic Changes and Livelihood Vulnerability in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru 8. Climate–Streamflow Linkages in the North-Central Rocky Mountains: Implications for a Changing Climate 9. Adapting to Climate Change in Andean Ecosystems: Landscapes, Capitals, and Perceptions Shaping Rural Livelihood Strategies and Linking Knowledge Systems 10. Making Sense of Twenty-First-Century Climate Change in the Altiplano: Observed Trends and CMIP3 Projections 11. Parameterization of Urban Characteristics for Global Climate Modeling 12. Climatic Shifts in the Availability of Contested Waters: A Long-Term Perspective from the Headwaters of the North Platte River 13. Climate Change, Drought, and Jamaican Agriculture: Local Knowledge and the Climate Record 14. Modeling Path Dependence in Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change 15. Joint Effects of Marine Intrusion and Climate Change on the Mexican Avifauna 16. Adapting Across Boundaries: Climate Change, Social Learning, and Resilience in the U.S.–Mexico Border Region 17. Climate, Carbon, and Territory: Greenhouse Gas Mitigation in Seattle, Washington 18. Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Flood-Induced Travel Disruptions: A Case Study of Portland, Oregon, USA 19. Constructing Carbon Market Spacetime: Climate Change and the Onset of Neo-Modernity 20. Climate Change and the Global Financial Crisis: A Case of Double Exposure 21. Integrity of the Emerging Global Markets in Greenhouse Gases 22. Climate Change, Capitalism, and the Challenge of Transdisciplinarity 23. Contested Sovereignty in a Changing Arctic 24. Kiavallakkikput Agviq (Into the Whaling Cycle): Cetaceousness and Climate Change Among the Iñupiat of Arctic Alaska 25. Benchmarking the War Against Global Warming 26. Regional Initiatives: Scaling the Climate Response and Responding to Conceptions of ScaleReviewsAuthor InformationRichard Aspinall is a geographer with research interests in coupled human-environmental systems, especially in land use, environmental change, and ecosystem services, and in GIS. From 2006-2011 he was Director of the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute in Aberdeen, Scotland, an interdisciplinary institute addressing economic, social and environmental aspects of sustainability. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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