Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming: Mitigation, Adaptation, and the Science Base

by National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, Panel on Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming, et al.

Global warming continues to gain importance on the international agenda and calls for action are heightening. Yet, there is still controversy over what must be done and what is needed to proceed.

Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming describes the information necessary to make decisions about global warming resulting from atmospheric releases of radiatively active trace gases. The conclusions and recommendations include some unexpected...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309043867
• ISBN13: 9780309043861
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 944 Pages
• Weight: 3.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.3" x 6.4" x 9.2"