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Document Type: | Book |
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ISBN: | 9780309145886 0309145880 9780309145893 0309145899 |
OCLC Number: | 705671704 |
Description: | XXI, 503 Seiten : Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten |
Contents: | 1 Front Matter; 2 Summary; 3 Part I; 4 1 Introduction: Science for Understanding and Responding to Climate Change; 5 2 What We Know About Climate Change and Its Interactions with People and Ecosystems; 6 3 A New Era of Climate Change Research; 7 4 Integrative Themes for Climate Change Research; 8 5 Recommendations for Meeting the Challenge of Climate Change Research; 9 Part II: Technical Chapters; 10 6 Changes in the Climate System; 11 7 Sea Level Rise and the Coastal Environment; 12 8 Freshwater Resources; 13 9 Ecosystems, Ecosystem Services, and Biodiversity; 14 10 Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food Production; 15 11 Public Health; 16 12 Cities and the Built Environment; 17 13 Transportation; 18 14 Energy Supply and Use; 19 15 Solar Radiation Management; 20 16 National and Human Security; 21 17 Designing, Implementing, and Evaluating Climate Policies; 22 References; 23 Appendix A: America's Climate Choices: Membership Lists; 24 Appendix B: Panel on Advancing the Science of Climate Change: Statement of Task; 25 Appendix C: Panel on Advancing the Science of Climate Change: Biographical Sketches; 26 Appendix D: Uncertainty Terminology; 27 Appendix E: The United States Global Change Research Program; 28 Appendix F: Geoengineering Options to Respond to Climate Change: Steps to Establish a Research Agenda; 29 Appendix G: Acronyms and Initialisms |
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What we know about climate change--A new era of climate change research--Recommendations--Part I--1. Introduction: Science for understanding and responding to climate change--2. What we know about climate change and its interactions with people and ecosystems--3. A new era of climate change research--4. Integrative themes for climate change research--5. Recommendations for meeting the challenge of climate change research--Part II: Technical chapters--6. Changes in the climate system--7. Sea level rise and the coastal environment--8. Freshwater resources--9. Ecosystems, ecosystem services, and biodiversity--10. Agriculture, fisheries, and food production--11. Public health--12. Cities and the built environment--13. Transportation--14. Energy supply and use--15. Solar radiation management--16. National and human security--17. Designing, implementing, and evaluating climate policies--References--Appendixes.
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