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Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change
- Published by Sage Publications
The Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change helps readers learn about the astonishingly intricate processes that make ours the only planet known to be habitable. These three volumes include more than 750 articles that explore major topics related to global warming and climate change--ranging geographically from the North Pole to the South Pole, and thematically from social effects to scientific causes.
Key Features
- Contains a 4-color, 16-page insert that is a comprehensive introduction to the complexities of global warming Includes coverage of the science and history of climate change, the polarizing controversies over climate-change theories, the role of societies, the industrial and economic factors, and the sociological aspects of climate change
- Emphasizes the importance of the effects, responsibilities, and ethics of climate change
- Presents contributions from leading scholars and institutional experts in the geosciences
- Serves as a general resource for geography, oceanography, biology, climatology, history and many other subjects
The Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change provides a primarily nonscientific resource to understanding the complexities of climate change for academic and public libraries.
Review:
"This excellent introduction to climate change with its straight-forward easy-to-understand articles will serve audiences in high school, public and academic libraries."
--Lawrence Looks at Books, June 2008
- Published/Released: May 2008
- ISBN 13: 9781412963893
- ISBN 10: 1412963893
- Product number: 244253
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