Global Climate Change and California: Potential Impacts and Responses - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0520075552 ISBN 13 : 9780520075559

Editeur : University of California Press, 1992

Synopsis

California's extraordinary ecological and economic diversity has brought it prosperity, pollution, and overpopulation. These factors and the state's national and international ties make California an essential test case for the impact of global climate change―temperature increases, water shortages, more ultraviolet radiation. The scientists in this forward-looking volume give their best estimates of what the future holds.

Beginning with an overview by Joseph Knox, the book discusses the greenhouse effect, the latest climate modeling capabilities, the implications of climate change for water resources, agriculture, biological ecosystems, human behavior, and energy.

The warning inherent in a scenario of unchecked population growth and energy use in California applies to residents of the entire planet. The sobering conclusions related here include recommendations for research that will help us all prepare for potential climate change.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Joseph B. Knox, division leader of atmospheric and geophysical sciences at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is Director of the National Institute for Global Environmental Change in Davis, California. Ann Foley Scheuring is a professional editor and writer affiliated with the University of California, Davis.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520075552
• ISBN 13: 9780520075559
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 228
• Éditeur: Knox Joseph B., Scheuring Ann Foley
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible