Climate Change

Trevor Letcher

ISBN 10: 044453301X / ISBN 13: 9780444533012

Verlag: Elsevier Science Jun 2009, 2009

Beschreibung

This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The climate of the Earth is always changing. As the debate over the implications of changes in the Earth's climate has grown, the term climate change has come to refer primarily to changes we've seen over recent years and those which are predicted to be coming, mainly as a result of human behavior. This book serves as a broad, accessible guide to the science behind this often political and heated debate by providing scientific detail and evidence in language that is clear to both the non-specialist and the serious student. 492 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Climate Change
• Verlag: Elsevier Science Jun 2009
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 044453301X
• ISBN-13: 9780444533012
• Einband: Buch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 238B x 159 H x 27 T Millimeter Breite: 238 mm, Höhe: 159 mm, Tiefe: 27 mm
• Gewicht: 937 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

The climate of the Earth is always changing.  As the debate over the implications of changes in the Earth's climate has grown, the term climate change has come to refer primarily to changes we've seen over recent years and those which are predicted to be coming, mainly as a result of human behavior. This book serves as a broad, accessible guide to the science behind this often political and heated debate by providing scientific detail and evidence in language that is clear to both the non-specialist and the serious student.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Professor Trevor Letcher is an Emeritus Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and living in the United Kingdom. He was previously Professor of Chemistry, and Head of Department, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Rhodes University, and Natal, in South Africa (1969-2004). He has published over 300 papers on areas such as chemical thermodynamic and waste from landfill in peer reviewed journals, and 100 papers in popular science and education journals. Prof. Letcher has edited and/or written 32 major books, of which 22 were published by Elsevier, on topics ranging from future energy, climate change, storing energy, waste, tyre waste and recycling, wind energy, solar energy, managing global warming, plastic waste, renewable energy, and environmental disasters. He has been awarded gold medals by the South African Institute of Chemistry and the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics honoured him with a Festschrift in 2018. He is a life member of both the Royal Society of Chemistry (London) and the South African Institute of Chemistry. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, and is a Director of the Board of the International Association of Chemical Thermodynamics since 2002.