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Rigorous in its science and insightful in its message, this atlas examines the drivers of climate change and its possible impacts on vulnerable livelihoods, water resources, ecosystems and biodiversity, health, coastal megacities, and cultural treasures. It covers a wide range of topics, including: warning signs, vulnerable populations, health impacts, renewable energy, emissions' reduction, personal and public action.
(University of South Carolina) is Senior Research Fellow, Stockholm Environment Institute, contributor to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, and Principal Investigator in NOAA's Regional Integrated Science and Assessment (RISA) research network addressing climate services.
This is a remarkable piece of work and extremely readable. What is most heartening about this book is not only the wealth of information it conveys but the powerful illustrations and graphics.
This pioneering atlas will become an essential point of reference for anyone looking for a quick and accurate overview of this multidisciplinary subject.
If you want to understand the evidence, causes and consequences of climate change, as well as what we can do to deal with it, get your copy today.
Seeing that climate change is probably the biggest single problem facing our world today, it's natural that you might want to find out more. You could wade through dense, dry academic detail from the IPCC. Or you could root out the newly published Atlas Of Climate Change [which] condenses key findings from the scientists and is packed with facts, graphs and maps explaining how climate change is affecting the planet.
Concise in expression, with handsome cartography and a text that sticks to the facts, it elucidates the key issues surrounding global climate change.
First-rate - the atlas format is a great way to present complex information. The book is a unique approach to the subject.
Simply fascinating...the atlas rings with intuitive clarity. The maps and graphics are compelling and salient, answering through demonstration many of the most important geographic questions that come with climate change politics...Finally, the book is portable and readily accessible in price and girth. Of course, these attributes make it a natural for course adoption.
Timely and useful [it] complements popularization works such as the book and the film by Al Gore...and provides a wealth of information that makes it a useful reference for practitioners, as well as classroom material.
This vast mine of information takes a wider than usual view of the implications of climate change - economic growth, human security, a wide range of species facing extinction as well as rising sea-levels, floods and droughts. [It] is a valuable resource to help understand the core issues and puts into perspective the desperate unfairness of the global picture.
A succinct, yet exacting new resource that can and should be recommended as a vital resource for many years to come.
Packs a lot of very high quality information into a small space with an excellent layout drawing in the reader. This should be a hit with students and should be seen on every library shelf - one of the best buys of the year.
An excellent vehicle for beginning to understand the climate change issue.
An excellent book and wonderful tool to help clarify the mountains of data into something comprehensible. For the longterm climate change reader, it synthesises things you already knew in a very clear and stylish way. For the novice, it takes what would otherwise be hard to digest statistics and information, and makes it clear and understandable. If you want to get up to speed on the subject, this is probably the best place to start. Highly recommended.
All schools should complement their environment studies with this atlas; crammed with colourful photographs, maps, graphics and useful statistics, it covers the multitude of warning signs that we are seeing just about every day.
An amazing effort...A great resource for climatologists, researchers, postgraduate and undergraduate students and also the general public to easily understand the basic issues related to the complicated and technical knowledge of climate change.
