Global Change and Local Places Estimating, Understanding, and Reducing Greenhouse Gasses

About this book

Explores how people and biota contribute to climate change in 4 localities of the United States. 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.

Contents

Foreword Robert 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 Mayfield; 3. Global change and Southwestern Kansas: local emissions and non-local determinants John A. 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 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 Denny, Brenton Yarnal, Colin Polsky and Steve Lachman; 7. Changing places and changing emissions: comparing local, state and United States emissions William E. Easterling, Colin Polsky, Douglas G. Goodin, Michael Mayfield, William A. Muraco and Brenton 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 DeHart, Audrey Reynolds and Robin Shudak; 10. Reducing Greenhouse Gas emissions: learning from local analogs C. Gregory Knight, Susan L. Cutter, Jennifer DeHart, Andrea Denny, David G. Howard, Sylvia-Linda Kaktins, David E. Kromm, Stephen E. White and Brenton Yarnal; 11. Long term potentials for reducing Greenhouse Gas emissions from local areas 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.

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Biography

The Global Change in Local Places Research Group is organised by the Association of American Geographers.