Global change and local places : estimating, understanding, and reducing greenhouse gases / [edited] by Association of American Geographers Global Change and Local Places Research Team
Published
Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2003
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 A grand query: how scale matters in global change research; 2 The research strategy: linking the local to the global; 3 Global change and Southwestern Kansas: local emissions and non-local determinants; 4 Northwestern North Carolina: local diversity in an era of change; 5 Northwestern Ohio: re-industrialization and emission reduction; 6 Global change and Central Pennsylvania: local resources and impacts of mitigation
Summary
How do our everyday lives affect climate change? This book compares four different sites in the United States, and looks at the human factors affecting climate change (such as greenhouse gas emissions), how these factors are changing, and what can be done to mitigate the effects at a local level
