Global Change and Local Places: Estimating, Understanding, and Reducing Greenhouse Gases

ISBN-13: 9780521809504 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 292 str.

Association of American Geographers GCLP Research Team

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This study of greenhouse gas emissions examines the causes and effects of climate changes triggered by human activities. It is the first major, comparative study of how the emissions vary nationally--at the local level and on a daily basis. The authors assess the degree of control households and firms have over the emissions they produce; how willing they are to modify their behavior to lessen climate change, and how they might adapt to the changes that will occur.

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List of contributors; Foreword Robert E. Corell; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I. Global Change and Local Places: 1. A grand query: how scale matters in global change research Robert W. Kates and Thomas J. Wilbanks; 2. The research strategy: linking the local to the global Thomas J. Wilbanks, Robert W. Kates, David P. Angel, Susan L. Cutter, William E. Easterling, and Michael W. Mayfield; Part II. Learning from Localities: 3. Global change and Southwestern Kansas: local emissions and non-local determinants John Harrington Jr., David E. Kromm, Lissa M. B. Harrington, Douglas G. Goodin, and Stephen E. White; 4. Northwestern North Carolina: local diversity in an era of change Neal G. Lineback, Michael W. Mayfield, and Jennifer DeHart; 5. Northwestern Ohio: re-industrialization and emission reduction Samuel A. Aryeetey-Attoh, Peter S. Lindquist, William A. Muraco, and Neil Reid; 6. Global change and Central Pennsylvania: local resources and impacts of mitigation Andrea S. Denny, Brent Yarnal, Colin Polsky, and Steve Lachman; Part III. Beyond Kyoto I: Greenhouse Gas Reduction in Local Places: 7. Changing places and changing emissions: comparing local, state, and United States emissions William E. Easterling, Colin Polsky, Douglas G. Goodin, Michael W. Mayfield, William A. Muraco, and Brent Yarnal; 8. Explaining greenhouse gas emissions from localities David P. Angel, Samuel A. Aryeetey-Attoh, Jennifer DeHart, David E. Kromm, and Stephen E. White; 9. Attitudes toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions from local places Susan L. Cutter, Jerry T. Mitchell, Arleen A. Hill, Lisa M. B. Harrington, Sylvia-Linda Kaktins, William A. Muraco, Jennifer De Hart, Audrey Reynolds, and Robin Shudak; 10. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions: learning from local analogs C. Gregory Knight, Susan L. Cutter, Jennifer DeHart, Andrea S. Denny, David G. Howard, Sylvia-Linda Kaktins, David E. Kromm, Stephen E. White, and Brent Yarnal; Part VI. Beyond Kyoto II: Greenhouse Gas Reduction Potentials and Strategies: 11. Long-term potentials for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from local area Thomas J. Wilbanks and Robert W. Kates; 12. Global change and local places: lessons learned Robert W. Kates, Thomas J. Wilbanks, and Ronald F. Abler; Index.