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Although climate change is a global problem, there is a growing recognition of the need to look at its regional manifestations and management. This book takes such a regional approach to the Alpine region. The result of the on going Swiss research programme Climate and Environment in the Alpine Region (CLEAR), it incorporates the work of an independent network of approximately 50 researchers from a variety of disciplines. The Alpine region is a good focus for such a study because of the wealth of historical and contemporary data. The contributors explicitly recognize that climate policy involves not just environmental policy but also economic, agricultural, social, and urban policy. The science required for climate policy need not provide a single definitive answer to the problem of climate change. Rather, it can contribute a variety of insights, explanations, scenarios, and open questions to the public debate. The authors aim at a science for policy that helps to develop realistic options in an ongoing debate involving scientists as well as policy-makers and ordinary citizens.

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Author:   Peter Cebon ,  Urs Dahinden ,  Huw Davies (Institut Fur Atmosphare/Klima) ,  Dieter Imboden (Umweltphysik)
Publisher:   MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:   MIT Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.00cm , Height: 4.40cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   1.315kg
ISBN:  

9780262032520

ISBN 10:   026203252
Pages:   531
Publication Date:   01 December 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
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Carlo C. Jaeger is Head of the Social Systems Department at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). Sheila Jasanoff is Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. She is the author of Designs on Nature: Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States and other books and the coeditor of Earthly Politics: Local and Global in Environmental Governance (MIT Press, 2004). Peter M. Haas is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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