Making Climate Change Work for Us Paperback: European Perspectives on Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies (Adam Book Series from Cambridge University Press) - Softcover

Hulme; Neufeldt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107671388 ISBN 13: 9781107671386

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2012

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Presenting local, regional and global solutions to climate change, both adaptation and mitigation, this book explains the dilemmas faced when converting strategies into policies. Leading interdisciplinary climate change research teams synthesise the findings of the European Commission ADAM (Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies) project, offering important information for researchers and policymakers.

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Review of the hardback: 'Hulme and Neufeldt present detailed research on adaptation and mitigation strategies at a crucial time for European climate policy ... will have a significant appeal for researchers and policy makers ... this book could have an effective contribution to societies worldwide.' The Geographical Journal

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Mike Hulme is Professor of Climate Change in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia and was the Founding Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research from 2000 to 2007. His research interests include representations of climate change in history, society and the media, the design and uptake of climate scenarios, and the interaction between climate change science and policy. His previous book – Why We Disagree About Climate Change – was published by Cambridge University Press in 2009. He has prepared climate scenarios and reports for the UK Government (including the UKCIP98 and UKCIP02 scenarios), the European Commission, the IPCC, UNEP, UNDP and WWF-International. He has published over 120 peer-reviewed journal papers and over 35 book chapters on these and other topics, together with over 230 reports and popular articles about climate change. He is co-editor of the journal Global Environmental Change and editor-in-chief of the newly launched Wiley's Interdisciplinary Review – Climate Change. He delivered the prestigious Queen's Lecture in Berlin in 2005 and won the Hugh Robert Mill Prize in 1995 from the Royal Meteorological Society.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1107671388
• ISBN 13: 9781107671386
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 445