Hard Choices: Climate Change in Canada
Editat de Harold Coward, Andrew J. Weaveren Limba Engleză Electronic book text – 2006
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ISBN-13: 9781554580811
ISBN-10: 1554580811
Pagini: 282
Editura: Wilfrid Laurier University
Colecția Wilfrid Laurier University Press (CA)
ISBN-10: 1554580811
Pagini: 282
Editura: Wilfrid Laurier University
Colecția Wilfrid Laurier University Press (CA)
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Table of Contents for Hard Choices: Climage Change in Canada , edited by Harold Coward and Andrew J. Weaver Preface 1. Introduction | Jan Zwicky Part I Whats [Going to] Happen[ing]? 2. The Science of Climate Change | Andrew J. Weaver 3. The Human Challenges of Climate Change | Steve Lonergan 4. Impacts of Climate Change in Canada | James P. Bruce and Stewart J. Cohen Part II What Can We Do? 5. Terrestial Carbon Sinks and Climate Change Mitigation | Nigel J. Livingston and G. Cornelis van Kooten 6. Technology and Climate Change | Gerard F. McLean and Murray Love 7. Economic Aspects of Climate Change | G. Cornelis van Kooten 8. Regional Adaptation Strategies | Stewart Cohen, Brad Bass, David Etkin, Brenda Jones, Jacinthe Lacroix, Brian Mills, Daniel Scott, and G. Cornelis van Kooten 9. Legal Constraints and Opportunities: Climate Change and the Law | Alastair R. Lucas Part III Hard Choices 10. A Canadian Policy Chronicle | James P. Bruce and Doug Russell 11. Beyond Kyoto? | Gordon S. Smith and David G. Victor 12. What Can Individuals Do? | Harold Coward 13. Concluding Remarks | Andrew J. Weaver About the Authors Index Contributors Brad Bass has been a member of Environment Canadas Adaptation and Impacts Research Group (AIR) since 1994. His research interests broadly include complexity, using ecological technologies to adapt to climate change and the impacts of climate change on the energy sector. More specifically, he is developing the cobweb software to explore how a system of individual agents adapts to change and the emergence of different attractors in a complex system. He has been the Environment Canada lead for Green Roofs, collaborating with many other partners on research projects related to energy efficiency, the urban heat island, and stormwater runoff. Currently, he is working with other faculty at the University of Toronto to assess how green roofs and other components of the urban forest can be integrated with other measures to reduce energy consumption at a neighbourhood scale. In collaboration with partners at the University of Regina, he has examined the impact of climate change on the energy sector in the Toronto-Niagara Region and has developed a regional-scale energy model for this type of analysis. James P. Bruce, OC, FRSCJim Bruce is a senior associate of Global Change Strategies International, Inc., and Canadian policy representative of the Soil and Water Conservation Society. His more than 40-year career has been in the fields of meteorology, climate, water resources, disaster mitigation, and environment as research scientist, and later in senior executive positions within the Canadian government and UN organizations. From 1986 to 1989, he was director of technical cooperation and acting deputy secretary-general of the World Meteorological Organization, Geneva. In the 1990s, he completed terms as co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group III on Economics, and as chair of the Canadian Climate Program Board and chair of the UNs Scientific and Technical Committee for the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction. He is now vice-chair of the Board of the International Institute for Sustainable Development. He has been made an Officer of the Order of Canada and holds honorary doctorates from the University of Waterloo and McMaster University. Recent awards include the Massey Medal of the Canadian Geographical Society and the IMO Prize of the World Meteorological Organization for exceptional world-wide contributions in meteorology and hydrology. Stewart J. Cohen is a scientist with the Adaptation and Impacts Research Group, Meteorological Service of Canada of Environment Canada, and an adjunct professor with the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia. He received his PhD from the University of Illinois in 1981. He works primarily on the regional impacts of climate and climate change, and has organized case studies throughout Canada, including the 19901997 Mackenzie Basin Impact Study , published by Environment Canada (1997). He was a lead author of the chapter on North America in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third Assessment Report volume Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (2001). He currently serves on the editorial boards of Climatic Change and Integrated Assessment (formerly Environmental Modelling and Assessment ), and is serving as science director of the British Columbia node of the Canadian-Climate Impacts and Adaptation Research Network (C-CAIRN BC). Harold Coward is past director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society and professor of history at the University of Victoria. He received his PhD from McMaster University. His main fields are comparative religion and environmental ethics. He has served as an executive member of the board of the Canadian Global Change Program. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He has been the recipient of numerous research grants from sshrc and the Ford Foundation. He has been a visiting Fellow at Banaras Hindu University and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Edinburgh University. He has written 65 articles and is author/editor of 36 books, including: Hindu Ethics (1988); The Philosophy of the Grammarians (1990); Derrida and Indian Philosophy (1990); Ethics and Climate Change: The Greenhouse Effect (1993); Population, Consumption and the Environment (1995); Visions of a New Earth (2000); and Just Fish: Ethics and Canadian Marine Fisheries (2000). David Etkin has been with Environment Canada since 1977. During his career, he has been a weather forecaster in Nova Scotia and Ontario, taught meteorology to new forecasters, and done applied research in the Arctic and Industrial Climatology Divisions of the Canadian Climate Centre. In 1993 he joined the Adaptation and Impacts Research Group of the Meteorological Service of Canada, specializing in the interdisciplinary study of natural hazards and disasters. Since 1996 he has worked at the University of Toronto, with the Institute for Environmental Studies. He has contributed to several national and international natural hazard projects, including the 2nd US national assessment, and is currently pi of the Canadian National Assessment of Natural Hazards. He has authored 21 peer-reviewed publications, 27 reports, and edited one book on natural hazard related issues. Brenda Jones is a PhD student in the Department of Geography at the University of Waterloo (UW). She has worked as a research associate for the Adaptation and Impacts Research Group since 2000 at their UW location. Her research interests include hazards and the spatial representation and analysis of vulnerability in the urban context. Jacinthe Lacroix works as a natural hazards specialist at the Public Safety Branch of the Quebec Ministry of Public Security, where she conducts impact studies on meteorological and hydrological hazards and on climate change impacts and adaptation. She is currently working on a PhD in hydroclimatology, on the subject of Climate Change and Floods in Southern Quebec. She is president of the Quebec Climatology Association (ACLIQ). Nigel Livingston is the director of the Centre for Forest Biology and a professor in the Department of Biology, University of Victoria. He received his PhD from the University of British Columbia in 1986. His research expertise covers whole plant physiology, micrometeorology, and environmental instrumentation. His research focuses on the physical and biological interaction between plants and the atmosphere with an emphasis on the mechanisms that determine carbon uptake and water loss by conifers. He serves on or has served on a number of national and international committees, including the International Standards Organization and the Expert Committee on the Regulations Relating to Genetically Modified Trees. Steve Lonergan is a professor in the Department of Geography, University of Victoria. He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1981. He works on issues of environment and security, water in the Middle East, and the consequences of climate change. He is the author of Watershed: The Role of Water in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (with D. Brooks, 1994). He is also editor of the policy briefing series Aviso and is past director of the Global Environmental Change and Human Security project (GECHS) for the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change. Murray Love is a research associate at the Institute for Integrated Energy Systems, specializing in computer modeling of renewable energy systems. He received his Bachelors and Masters degrees from the department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Victoria. His research focuses on the technological, economic, and political implicati