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Managing the climate crisis : assessing our risks, options, and prospects /
Using a risk management approach to tease apart the complex issue of climate change, this book assesses the key vulnerabilities and redirects the discussion to present a comprehensive plan to overhaul our response to climate change.• Introduces a broader audience to climate change as a crisis alread...
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Praeger,
[2016]
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Managing the climate crisis : |b assessing our risks, options, and prospects / |c Robert O. Schneider. |
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| 500 | |a Includes index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Feeling the heat -- What does science tell us? -- The false debate: a confused public -- Risks and vulnerabilities: making the planetary personal -- Climate change mitigation and adaptation -- Policy options and prospects -- Time is not on our side. | |
| 506 | |a Electronic access restricted to Villanova University patrons. | ||
| 520 | |a Using a risk management approach to tease apart the complex issue of climate change, this book assesses the key vulnerabilities and redirects the discussion to present a comprehensive plan to overhaul our response to climate change.• Introduces a broader audience to climate change as a crisis already in motion that poses predictable risks and urgently requires public policy changes and the creation of a national climate policy• Makes the'invisible crisis'of climate change visible and comprehensible by enabling readers to understand the problem in the context of hazard risk and risk management -- Provided by publisher. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. | ||
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