Title Four degrees of global warming : Australia in a hot world / edited by Peter Christoff

Published Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 268 pages) Contents pt. 1. Climate science and four degrees -- pt. 2. Ecological impacts -- pt. 3. Social and economic impacts -- pt. 4. Adaptation Summary "At Copenhagen in December 2009, the international community agreed to limit global warming to below two degrees Celsius to avoid the worst impacts of human-induced climate change. However climate scientists agree that current national emissions targets collectively will still not achieve this goal. Instead, the 'ambition gap' between climate science and climate policy is likely to lead to average global warming of around four degrees Celsius by or before 2100. If a 'Four Degree World' is the de facto goal of policy, we urgently need to understand what this world might look like. Four Degrees of Global Warming : Australia in a Hot World outlines the expected consequences of this world for Australia and its region. Its contributors include many of Australia's most eminent and internationally recognized climate scientists, climate policy makers and policy analysts. They provide an accessible, detailed, dramatic, and disturbing examination of the likely impacts of a Four Degree World on Australia's social, economic and ecological systems. The book offers policy makers, politicians, students, and anyone interested climate change, access to the most recent research on potential Australian impacts of global warming, and possible responses"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Global warming -- Australia Global warming -- Social aspects -- Australia Global warming -- Economic aspects -- Australia Global warming -- Government policy -- Australia Social change -- Australia BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. Ecological forecasting Economic history -- Forecasting Global warming Global warming -- Economic aspects Global warming -- Government policy Global warming -- Social aspects Social change Social history -- Forecasting SUBJECT Australia -- Environmental conditions -- Forecasting Australia -- Social conditions -- Forecasting Australia -- Economic conditions -- Forecasting Subject Australia Form Electronic book Author Christoff, Peter ISBN 9781135937423 1135937427 1306050669 9781306050661 9780415824583 0415824583 9780203370476 0203370473 9780415824576 0415824575 9781135937560 1135937567 9781135937492 1135937494

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