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Climate Change: An Interdisciplinary Introduction
3031429052 pdf 3031429052 pdf This textbook introduces and explains the issues around climate change and its mitigation. It includes topics across disciplines and can be used as a single-volume text by students studying a range of subjects. Among the topics included are: How to adopt significant mitigation measures now to avoid the most catastrophic long-term consequences of climate change. Reducing the rates of highly potent, short-lived emissions of methane gas and black carbon particulatesreductions that are necessary to meet the temperature targets of the Paris Agreements. Implementing wide-ranging adaptation measures to reduce the deaths and economic costs of extreme heat waves, droughts, wildfires, hurricanes, and floods. Read more