Climate Change 1995: Economic and Social Dimensions of Climate Change
Subtitle: Contribution of Working Group III to the Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Contributors: James P. Bruce (Editor); Hoesung Lee (Editor); Erik F. Haites (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; Brand: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 28, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 458
ISBN-13: 9780521560511
Subjects: Central government policies; Climatology; Environmental economics; Global warming; Science/Mathematics; Environmental Science; Climate Changes; Meteorological Research; Sociology; Science; Evaluation; Human Geography; Weather; Climatic changes--Social aspects--Evaluation; Science / Environmental Science; Social aspects; Earth Sciences - Meteorology & Climatology; Climatic changes; Economic aspects
First sentence: Climate change presents the decision maker with a set of formidable complications: large uncertainties, the potential for irreversible damages or costs, a very long planning horizon, long time lags between emissions and effects, a global scope, wide regional variation, and multiple greenhouse gases of concern.