Call number:
PIK 24-95701
Description / Table of Contents:
Climate change raises new, foundational challenges in science. It requires us to question what we know and how we know it. The subject is important for society but the science is young and history tells us that scientists can get things wrong before they get them right. How, then, can we judge what information is reliable and what is open to question? Stainforth goes to the heart of the climate change problem to answer this question. He describes the fundamental characteristics of climate change and shows how they undermine the application of traditional research methods, demanding new approaches to both scientific and societal questions. He argues for a rethinking of how we go about the study of climate change in the physical sciences, the social sciences, economics, and policy. The subject requires nothing less than a restructuring of academic research to enable integration of expertise across diverse disciplines and perspectives.
Type of Medium:
Monograph available for loan
Pages:
vi, 356 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Diagramme
ISBN:
9780198812937
Language:
English
Location:
A 18 - must be ordered
Branch Library:
PIK Library
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