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Climate Change: Biological and Human Aspects

Name: Climate Change: Biological and Human Aspects
Author: Jonathan Cowie
ISBN: 9781107603561

by Jonathan Cowie

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Overview

The second edition of this acclaimed text has been fully updated and substantially expanded to include the considerable developments (since publication of the first edition) in our understanding of the science of climate change, its impacts on biological and human systems, and developments in climate policy. Written in an accessible style, it provides a broad review of past, present and likely future climate change from the viewpoints of biology, ecology, human ecology and Earth system science. It will again prove to be invaluable to a wide range of readers, from students in the life sciences who need a brief overview of the basics of climate science, to atmospheric science, geography, geoscience and environmental science students who need to understand the biological and human ecological implications of climate change. It is also a valuable reference text for those involved in environmental monitoring, conservation and policy-making.

About the Author, Jonathan Cowie

Jonathan Cowie has spent many years conveying the views of learned societies in the biological sciences to policy-makers and in science communication (promotion, publishing and press liaison). His earlier postgraduate studies related to energy and the environment. He is a former Head of Science Policy and Books at the Institute of Biology (UK). He is also author of Climate and Human Change: Disaster or Opportunity (Parthenon Publishing, 1998).

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“A comprehensive review of the science of climate change, the impacts of climate change on biological and human systems, and their interrelatedness. An excellent contribution to the growing recognition that knowledge of biological and human systems is needed to understand climate change.” - Gordon Bonan, National Center for Atmospheric Research

“…readers gain an appreciation of the wide-ranging consequences of climate change with many examples and analogies…it is a book a climate scientist, or any concerned citizen of the world, should read.” - Paul A. Dirmeyer, George Mason University