Hard Choices
Subtitle: Climate Change in Canada
Contributors: Harold Coward (Editor); Andrew J. Weaver (Editor)
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Published: June 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780889204423
Subjects: Climatology; Global warming; Science/Mathematics; Essays; Science; Canada; Earth Sciences - Meteorology & Climatology; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Public Policy - Environmental Policy; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection
Description: "Drought, floods, hurricanes, forest fires, ice storms, blackouts, dwindling fish stocks, the "greenhouse" effect ... what Canadian has not wondered what is happening to our climate? This new collection of essays by leading Canadian scientists, engineers, social scientists, and humanists offers an overview and assessment of climate change and its impacts on Canada from physical, social, technological, economic, political, and ethical/religious perspectives. Hard Choices, offers a multidisciplinary approach to the challenges we face in Canada with special attention given to Canada's response to the Kyoto protocol and an assessment of the adequacy of Kyoto as a response to the global challenge of climate change."--BOOK JACKET.