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This comprehensive book explores the ways people and biota contribute to climate change in four localities of the United States. This volume summarizes the findings of the Global Change in Local Places (GCLP) project initiated by the Association of American Geographers to investigate the contribution of local factors to global change, how and why these factors change over time, and how the effects might be controlled and mitigated locally. The sources and driving forces for greenhouse gas emissions vary widely among the four research sites, as do the possibilities and propensities to mitigate emissions and adapt to the local changes global warming could bring. Policy makers and legislators will be unable to address human-induced climate change effectively without the insights revealed by examining and understanding the daily routines that are simultaneously the sources of climate change and the keys to reducing its severity and coping with its effects.
Contents
List of contributors; Foreword Robert E. Corell; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I. Global Change and Local Places: 1. A grand query: how scale matters in global change research Robert W. Kates and Thomas J. Wilbanks; 2. The research strategy: linking the local to the global Thomas J. Wilbanks, Robert W. Kates, David P. Angel, Susan L. Cutter, William E. Easterling, and Michael W. Mayfield; Part II. Learning from Localities: 3. Global change and Southwestern Kansas: local emissions and non-local determinants John Harrington Jr., David E. Kromm, Lissa M. B. Harrington, Douglas G. Goodin, and Stephen E. White; 4. Northwestern North Carolina: local diversity in an era of change Neal G. Lineback, Michael W. Mayfield, and Jennifer DeHart; 5. Northwestern Ohio: re-industrialization and emission reduction Samuel A. Aryeetey-Attoh, Peter S. Lindquist, William A. Muraco, and Neil Reid; 6. Global change and Central Pennsylvania: local resources and impacts of mitigation Andrea S. Denny, Brent Yarnal, Colin Polsky, and Steve Lachman; Part III. Beyond Kyoto I: Greenhouse Gas Reduction in Local Places: 7. Changing places and changing emissions: comparing local, state, and United States emissions William E. Easterling, Colin Polsky, Douglas G. Goodin, Michael W. Mayfield, William A. Muraco, and Brent Yarnal; 8. Explaining greenhouse gas emissions from localities David P. Angel, Samuel A. Aryeetey-Attoh, Jennifer DeHart, David E. Kromm, and Stephen E. White; 9. Attitudes toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions from local places Susan L. Cutter, Jerry T. Mitchell, Arleen A. Hill, Lisa M. B. Harrington, Sylvia-Linda Kaktins, William A. Muraco, Jennifer De Hart, Audrey Reynolds, and Robin Shudak; 10. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions: learning from local analogs C. Gregory Knight, Susan L. Cutter, Jennifer DeHart, Andrea S. Denny, David G. Howard, Sylvia-Linda Kaktins, David E. Kromm, Stephen E. White, and Brent Yarnal; Part VI. Beyond Kyoto II: Greenhouse Gas Reduction Potentials and Strategies: 11. Long-term potentials for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from local area Thomas J. Wilbanks and Robert W. Kates; 12. Global change and local places: lessons learned Robert W. Kates, Thomas J. Wilbanks, and Ronald F. Abler; Index.
