Four Degrees of Global Warming

Australia in a Hot World
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-415-82457-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 599 g

At Copenhagen in December 2009, the international community agreed to limit global warming to below two degrees Celsius to avoid the worst impacts of human-induced climate change. However climate scientists agree that current national emissions targets collectively will still not achieve this goal. Instead, the ‘ambition gap’ between climate science and climate policy is likely to lead to average global warming of around four degrees Celsius by or before 2100. If a ‘Four Degree World’ is the de facto goal of policy, we urgently need to understand what this world might look like.

Four Degrees of Global Warming: Australia in a Hot World outlines the expected consequences of this world for Australia and its region. Its contributors include many of Australia’s most eminent and internationally recognized climate scientists, climate policy makers and policy analysts. They provide an accessible, detailed, dramatic, and disturbing examination of the likely impacts of a Four Degree World on Australia’s social, economic and ecological systems.

The book offers policy makers, politicians, students, and anyone interested climate change, access to the most recent research on potential Australian impacts of global warming, and possible responses.

Zielgruppe

Academic, General, Postgraduate, Professional, Professional Practice & Development, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Christoff, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction Part 1: Climate Science and Four Degrees 2. Australia's Climate at Four Degrees 3. Extreme Events Part 2: Ecological Impacts 4. Terrestrial Species and Ecosystems 5. Marine Species and Ecosystems 6. Agricultural Systems 7. Compounding Problems Part 3: Social and Economic Impacts 8. Compounding Social and Economic Impacts 9. Human Health 10. Cities 11. Regional Security Part 4: Adaptation 12. Regional Adaptation Challenges 13. Adaptation - Can We? 14. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Christoff is a political scientist and Associate Professor who teaches Climate Change Politics and Policy and Environmental Policy at the University of Melbourne. From 2005 to 2013 hewas also the Vice President of the Australian Conservation Foundation, Australia’s largest national environmental NGO.