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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Autor principal: Schneider, Robert O. (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Santa Barbara, California : Praeger [2016]
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 recurso electrónico
Formato:Forma de acceso: World Wide Web.
Bibliografía:Incluye referencias bibliográficas al final de cada capítulo e índice.
ISBN:9781440839993