Hard Choices: Climate Change in Canada (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780889204423)

Drought, floods, hurricanes, forest fires, ice storms, blackouts, dwindling fish stocks...what Canadian has not experienced one of these or more, or heard about the "greenhouse" effect, and not wondered what is happening to our climate? Yet most of us have a poor understanding of this extremely important issue, and need better, reliable scientific information. Hard Choices: Climate Change in Canada delivers some hard facts to help us make some of those hard choices.

This new collection of essays by leading Canadian scientists, engineers, social scientists, and humanists offers an overview and assessment of climate change and its impacts on Canada from physical, social, technological, economic, political, and ethical / religious perspectives. Interpreting and summarizing the large and complex literatures from each of these disciplines, the book offers a multidisciplinary approach to the challenges we face in Canada. Special attention is given to Canada's response to the Kyoto Protocol, as well as an assessment of the overall adequacy of Kyoto as a response to the global challenge of climate change.

Hard Choices fills a gap in available books which provide readers with reliable information on climate change and its impacts that are specific to Canada. While written for the general reader, it is also well suited for use as an undergraduate text in environmental studies courses.

Author: Harold Coward
ISBN-10: 088920442X
ISBN-13: 9780889204423
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/24/2004
Pages: 282
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/2005 pg. 49 - Recommended/Regional General
Choice 01/01/2005 pg. 891
Scitech Book News 12/01/2004 pg. 53