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Title Global change and local places : estimating, understanding, and reducing greenhouse gases / [edited] by Association of American Geographers Global Change and Local Places Research Team.

Publication Info. Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 270 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary How do our everyday lives affect climate change? This book compares four different sites in the United States, and looks at the human factors affecting climate change (such as greenhouse gas emissions), how these factors are changing, and what can be done to mitigate the effects at a local level.
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 A grand query: how scale matters in global change research; 2 The research strategy: linking the local to the global; 3 Global change and Southwestern Kansas: local emissions and non-local determinants; 4 Northwestern North Carolina: local diversity in an era of change; 5 Northwestern Ohio: re-industrialization and emission reduction; 6 Global change and Central Pennsylvania: local resources and impacts of mitigation.
Note Print version record.
Subject Greenhouse gases -- Environmental aspects.
Air quality management.
Climatic changes.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Environmental -- Pollution Control.
Air quality management. (OCoLC)fst00802537
Climatic changes. (OCoLC)fst00864229
Greenhouse gases -- Environmental aspects. (OCoLC)fst00947709
Added Author Association of American Geographers. Global Change and Local Places Research Team.
Other Form: Print version: Global change and local places. Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2003 0521809509 (DLC) 2002035014 (OCoLC)50717986
ISBN 051106408X (electronic bk.)
9780511064081 (electronic bk.)
9780511535819 (electronic bk.)
0511535813 (electronic bk.)
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