Societal Responses To Regional Climatic Change: Forecasting By Analogy

by Michael H Glantz

Overview

This volume is an outgrowth of a project undertaken by the Environmental and Societal Impacts Group (ESIG) for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Policy Analysis to identify societal responses to extreme climate-related events in North America.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367303266
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/31/2024
Pages:	438
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Background, Concepts, Overview — Introduction — Human Impact on Climate: The Evolution of an Awareness — Politics and the Air Around Us: International Policy Action on Atmospheric Pollution by Trace Gases — Grappling for a Glimpse of the Future — Statistics of Climate Change: Implications for Scenario Development — Impact Assessment by Analogy: Comparing the Impacts of the Ogallala Aquifer Depletion and CO2-Induced Climate Change — Case Studies — Great Lakes Levels and Climate Change: Impacts, Responses, and Futures — The Rising Level of the Great Salt Lake: An Analogue of Societal Adjustment to Climate Change — Future Sea-Level Rise and Its Implications for Charleston, South Carolina — Institutional Response to Sea-Level Rise: The Case of Louisiana — Climate Variability and the Mississippi River Navigation System — Climate Variability and the Colorado River Compact: Implications for Responding to Climate Change — Climate Change and California: Past, Present, and Future Vulnerabilities — Analyzing the Risk of Drought: The Occoquan Experience — The Ogallala Aquifer and Carbon Dioxide: Are Policy Responses Applicable? — Public and Private Sector Responses to Florida Citrus Freezes — Forecasting by Analogy — Summary

Editorial Reviews

A consideration of several regional scenarios based on actual, prolonged, outlying climatic events that have occurred recently in North America. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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