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Climate and Society: Climate as Resource, Climate as Risk
- Publication Year:
- 2009
- Edition:
- 1st
- Author:
- Stehr, Nico; von Storch, Hans
- Publisher:
- World Scientific Publishing Co, Inc.
- ISBN:
- 978-9-81-428053-2
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Description
Provides an absorbing account of the cultural history of climate and relates it to contemporary scientific knowledge about climate, climate change and its impact.
The history of climate and its different approaches over time — which are anthropocentric and more system-oriented, academic and application-driven — are reviewed, as are the possibilities of managing climate, in particular by steering the greenhouse gas emissions. Most importantly, the concepts of climate as a resource for societies are discussed and the emergence of climate non-constancy and its impact, studied.
The history of climate and its different approaches over time — which are anthropocentric and more system-oriented, academic and application-driven — are reviewed, as are the possibilities of managing climate, in particular by steering the greenhouse gas emissions. Most importantly, the concepts of climate as a resource for societies are discussed and the emergence of climate non-constancy and its impact, studied.
Details
- Platform:
- OvidSP
- Publisher:
- World Scientific Publishing Co, Inc.
- Product Type:
- Book
- Author:
- Stehr, Nico; von Storch, Hans
- ISBN:
- 978-9-81-428053-2
- Specialty:
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- Earth & Geological Sciences
- Environmental Sciences
- Language:
- English
- Edition:
- 1st
- Pages:
- 152
- Publication Year:
- 2009