Overview
- Provides an up-to-date and authoritative resource pertaining to the scientific and socioeconomic dimensions of climate change, its anthropogenic influences, and the likely causes and consequences of predicted warming and other dynamics
- Aims to provide a benchmark for the present state of both knowledge and uncertainty
- Entries by highly qualified and well-recognized practitioners in their fields of expertise within the highly interdisciplinary subject areas of global environmental change
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Handbook of Global Environmental Pollution (EGEP)
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About this book
The handbook Global Environmental Change is intended to serve as a reliable and comprehensive resource to attend the needs of researchers, teachers, students, and professionals working in science and policy aspects relevant to environment and sustainability. Entries in the handbook are arranged by major section, and are extensively cross-referenced to allow users to find related titles in a user-friendly way. The handbook is available as a printed volume and as an on-line reference work.
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Table of contents (105 entries)
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Front Matter
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Global Change and Climate
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Global Change and Oceans
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Bill Freedman is an ecologist and professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, where he does research and teaches classes in ecology and environmental science. He is a specialist in the ecological effects of pollution, disturbance, and other stressors, including: the effects of forest harvesting and management on vegetation, wildlife, and site quality; pollution of surface waters; toxic elements; acidification; arctic ecology; the conservation of biodiversity; the design of ecologically sustainable resource-use systems; and curricula in environmental education.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Global Environmental Change
Editors: Bill Freedman
Series Title: Handbook of Global Environmental Pollution
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5784-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Reference Module Physical and Materials Science, Reference Module Earth and Environmental Sciences
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5783-7Published: 22 August 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5784-4Published: 11 August 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 973
Number of Illustrations: 34 b/w illustrations, 101 illustrations in colour
Topics: Pollution, general