Climate Change: The Key Concepts

"Climate Change: The Key Concepts" provides a clear and accessible guide to this highly topical and complex area. The book covers key scientific, geographical and socio-political concepts in an easy to use A-Z format, together with tips for further reading to take your studies further. Entries include: Aerosols; Carbon Accounting; Climate Change impacts; Deforestation; Evapotranspiration; Global Warming; and, Kyoto Protocol. Taking the reader through the latest thinking on climate change, environmental damage and risk, this book has everything the student - or indeed anyone who wants to know more about the most important threat ever faced by mankind - will need to know.