Stephen H. Schneider was Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies and Professor of Biology at Stanford University. He was also Coordinating Lead Author of the IPCC“s working group on Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability, from 1997 to 2001, and, with his IPCC colleagues, was awarded a joint Nobel Prize in 2007. He was the author or editor of many books, including Science as a Contact Sport: Inside the Battle to Save Earth“s Climate and Scientists Debate Gaia: The Next Century (MIT Press, 2004).
9 Ebooks von Stephen H. Schneider
Michael D. Mastrandrea & Stephen H. Schneider: Preparing for Climate Change
Why we should prepare for climate change now by taking anticipatory action in vulnerable regions.Global momentum is building to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. So far, so good. The less happy news …
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€46.12
Stephen H. Schneider: Primordial Bond
Does the solution to our energy crisis depend upon the de- velopment of coal, nuclear, solar, or some other energy source? Are we better off because science and technology have made us less …
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€57.63
Kenneth C. Land & Stephen H. Schneider: Forecasting in the Social and Natural Sciences
Social and natural scientists often are called upon to produce, or participate, in the pro- duction of forecasts. This volume assembles essays that (a) describe the organizational and political …
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€57.37
Rosencranz Armin Rosencranz & Niles John O. Niles: Climate Change Policy
Questions surrounding the issue of climate change are evolving from "Is it happening?" to "What can be done about it?" The primary obstacles to addressing it at this point are not …
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€101.45
Schneider Stephen H. Schneider & Root Terry Root: Wildlife Responses to Climate Change
Wildlife Responses to Climate Change is the culmination of a three-year project to research and study the impacts of global climate change on ecosystems and individual wildlife species in North …
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€53.72
Rosencranz Armin Rosencranz & Kuntz-Duriseti Kristin Kuntz-Duriseti: Climate Change Science and Policy
This is the most comprehensive and current reference resource on climate change available today. It features 49 individual chapters by some of the world‘ s leading climate scientists. Its five …
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€70.28
Stephen H Schneider: Laboratory Earth
An extremely readable account on the scientific essentials of the global warming debate The possibility of global climatic change as a result of increasing numbers of people requiring higher stands …
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€3.99
Penelope J. Boston & Eileen Crist: Scientists Debate Gaia
Scientists Debate Gaia is a multidisciplinary reexamination of the Gaia hypothesis, which was introduced by James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis in the early 1970s. The Gaia hypothesis holds that Earth’s …
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€86.94
