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Climate Change
Observed impacts on Planet Earth
- 1st Edition - May 8, 2009
- Editor: Trevor Letcher
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 5 3 3 0 1 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 9 3 3 0 3 - 0
The climate of the Earth is always changing. As the debate over the implications of changes in the Earth's climate has grown, the term climate change has come to refer primarily… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThe climate of the Earth is always changing. As the debate over the implications of changes in the Earth's climate has grown, the term climate change has come to refer primarily to changes we've seen over recent years and those which are predicted to be coming, mainly as a result of human behavior. This book serves as a broad, accessible guide to the science behind this often political and heated debate by providing scientific detail and evidence in language that is clear to both the non-specialist and the serious student.
- Provides all the scientific evidence for and possible causes of climate change in one book
- Written by expert scientists working in the field
- Logical, non-emotional conclusions
- A source book for the latest findings on climate change
Primary Markets: Researchers and graduate students in many fields including Biology, Chemistry, Zoology, Atmospheric Science, Physics, Mathematics and modelling, Chemical Engineering, Oceanography, Agriculture and Climatology
Academics and teachers in many fields, undergraduates and students. Members of Parliament and all Government Ministers and Managers. Journalists and Newspaper Editors. Government agencies. Investors on Stock Exchange
Town and City Libraries. Consultants and Financial Advisors to big business, especially those involved in new energy initiatives.
Secondary Markets: City, county and town management boards. Industrialists and Industrial Lab staff involved in areas ranging from clothing to food preparation. Schools. Holiday operators. Property investors. Farm consultants.
Academics and teachers in many fields, undergraduates and students. Members of Parliament and all Government Ministers and Managers. Journalists and Newspaper Editors. Government agencies. Investors on Stock Exchange
Town and City Libraries. Consultants and Financial Advisors to big business, especially those involved in new energy initiatives.
Secondary Markets: City, county and town management boards. Industrialists and Industrial Lab staff involved in areas ranging from clothing to food preparation. Schools. Holiday operators. Property investors. Farm consultants.
- No. of pages: 492
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: May 8, 2009
- Imprint: Elsevier Science
- Hardback ISBN: 9780444533012
- eBook ISBN: 9780080933030
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Trevor Letcher
Professor Trevor Letcher is an Emeritus Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and living in the United Kingdom. He was previously Professor of Chemistry, and Head of Department, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Rhodes University, and Natal, in South Africa (1969-2004). He has published over 300 papers on areas such as chemical thermodynamic and waste from landfill in peer reviewed journals, and 100 papers in popular science and education journals. Prof. Letcher has edited and/or written 32 major books, of which 22 were published by Elsevier, on topics ranging from future energy, climate change, storing energy, waste, tyre waste and recycling, wind energy, solar energy, managing global warming, plastic waste, renewable energy, and environmental disasters. He has been awarded gold medals by the South African Institute of Chemistry and the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics honoured him with a Festschrift in 2018. He is a life member of both the Royal Society of Chemistry (London) and the South African Institute of Chemistry. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, and is a Director of the Board of the International Association of Chemical Thermodynamics since 2002.
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Emeritus Professor, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaRead Climate Change on ScienceDirect