00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862075089 Buklod 20170301140612.0 g||| | || || ta 170704s2015 nyuab rb |||| u|eng d 9781632391148 (hbk.) (iLib)UPBAG-00023453632 BC-67815 JNJ Educational Enterprises Php6,210.00 DPS Faculty OCLC BAG rda eng QC 981.8 C5 C33 2015 Climate change human and social concerns edited by Andrew Hyman. New York, NY, USA Callisto Reference ©2015. vi, 290 pages illustrations (some color), maps (some color) 24 cm Includes bibliographical references. Anomalous climatic effects like higher temperatures, intense rainfall and floods, constant and severe droughts have now reached a whole new level. Without proper adaptation methods, climate change is expected to worsen the vulnerability of society, pose serious risk to food security and human health, threaten the lives of growing urban population and obstruct in the aim of achieving sustainable development. The human and social dimensions of climate change, comprising of climate policy, play crucial roles in our response to several challenges arising from climate change. By emphasizing on a vast range of subjects and involving a number of reputed scholars, this book discusses the human and social dimensions of climate change and the topics usually overlooked or poorly understood by scholars and policymakers. Climatic changes Social aspects Research. Climatic changes Research. Hyman, Andrew editor. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN QC 981.8 C5 C33 2015 Book