Shaping National Responses to Climate Change
Subtitle: A Post-Rio Guide
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Island Press
Published: April 1, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781559633437
Subjects: Central government policies; The Environment; Greenhouse gases; Environmental Science; Environmental Studies; Environmental aspects; Earth Sciences - Meteorology & Climatology; Life Sciences - Ecology; Science / Meteorology; Environmental Policy; Climatic changes; Political aspects
First sentence: Modern communication, with its emphasis on ten-second sound bites, sensational headlines, and laser-sharp images, bombards today's society with a pictorial and verbal cacophony of sights and sounds-the Berlin Wall crumbling, Tiananmen Square exploding in revolution, the cries of children starving in African refugee camps.