Confronting Climate Change
- ISBN-10
- 1136819851
- ISBN-13
- 9781136819858
- Series
- Confronting Climate Change
- Category
- Science
- Pages
- 128
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-03-30
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Author
- Constance Lever-Tracy
Description
In this highly accessible introduction to the predicted global impacts of climate change, Constance Lever-Tracy provides an authoritative guide to one of the most controversial issues facing the future of our planet. Discussing how the social and natural sciences must work together more effectively in confronting climate change, Lever-Tracy provides a sober, critical assessment of the politics of global warming and climate change.
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Other editions
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- 2008
- 122 pages
- Ebook
- Council on Foreign Relations
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- 2006
- 336 pages
- Paperback
- Victoria University Press
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- 1992-06-11
- 406 pages
- Paperback
- Cambridge University Press
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