TY - BOOK ED - Association of American Geographers. TI - Global change and local places: estimating, understanding, and reducing greenhouse gases SN - 9780511535819 (ebook) AV - TD885.5.G73 A25 2003 U1 - 363.738/74 21 PY - 2003/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Greenhouse gases KW - Environmental aspects KW - Air quality management KW - Climatic changes N1 - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015); Foreword; Robert W. Corell --; 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 --; 3; Global change and Southwestern Kansas: local emissions and non-local determinants; John Harrington, Jr., David E. Kromm, Lisa 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 N2 - This comprehensive book explores the ways people and biota contribute to climate change in four localities of the United States. This 2003 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511535819 ER -