Global Change and Local Places

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-521-80950-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 687 g

Global Change and Local Places explores the ways people and biota contribute to climate change in four localities of the United States. The volume summarizes the findings of the Global Change in Local Places (GCLP) project initiated by the Association of American Geographers to investigate the contribution of local factors to global change, how and why these factors change over time, and how the effects might be controlled and mitigated locally. The sources and driving forces for greenhouse gas emissions vary widely among the four research sites, as do the possibilities and propensities to mitigate emissions and adapt to the local changes global warming could bring. Policy makers and legislators will be unable to address human-induced climate change effectively without the insights revealed by examining and understanding the daily routines that are simultaneously the sources of climate change and the keys to reducing its severity and coping with its effects.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Aeronomie, Ionosphäre, Magnetosphäre
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Naturschutzbiologie, Biodiversität
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umwelttechnik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Terrestrische Ökologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Populärwissenschaftliche Werke
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Meeres- und Süßwasserökologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Meteorologie, Klimatologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Umwelttechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword Robert Corell; 1. A grand query: how scale matters in global change research Robert W. Kates and Thomas J. Wilbanks; 2. The research strategy: linking the local to the global Thomas J. Wilbanks, Robert W. Kates, David P. Angel, Susan L. Cutter, William E. Easterling and Michael Mayfield; 3. Global change and Southwestern Kansas: local emissions and non-local determinants John A. Harrington Jr, David E. Kromm, Lisa M. B. Harrington, Douglas G. Goodin and Stephen E. White; 4. Northwestern North Carolina: local diversity in an era of change Neal G. Lineback, Michael Mayfield and Jennifer DeHart; 5. Northwestern Ohio: re-industrialization and emission reduction Samuel A. Aryeetey-Attoh, Peter S. Lindquist, William. A. Muraco and Neil Reid; 6. Global change and Central Pennsylvania: local resources and impacts of mitigation Andrea Denny, Brenton Yarnal, Colin Polsky and Steve Lachman; 7. Changing places and changing emissions: comparing local, state and United States emissions William E. Easterling, Colin Polsky, Douglas G. Goodin, Michael Mayfield, William A. Muraco and Brenton Yarnal; 8. Explaining Greenhouse Gas emissions from localities David P. Angel, Samuel A. Aryeetey-Attoh, Jennifer DeHart, David E. Kromm and Stephen E. White; 9. Attitudes toward reducing Greenhouse Gas emissions from local places Susan L. Cutter, Jerry T. Mitchell, Arleen A. Hill, Lisa M. B. Harrington, Sylvia-Linda Kaktins, William A. Muraco, Jennifer DeHart, Audrey Reynolds and Robin Shudak; 10. Reducing Greenhouse Gas emissions: learning from local analogs C. Gregory Knight, Susan L. Cutter, Jennifer DeHart, Andrea Denny, David G. Howard, Sylvia-Linda Kaktins, David E. Kromm, Stephen E. White and Brenton Yarnal; 11. Long term potentials for reducing Greenhouse Gas emissions from local areas Thomas J. Wilbanks and Robert W. Kates; 12. Global change and local places: lessons learned Robert W. Kates, Thomas J. Wilbanks and Ronald F. Abler.