Managing the Climate Crisis: Assessing Our Risks, Options, and Prospects

Managing the Climate Crisis: Assessing Our Risks, Options, and Prospects

by RobertSchneider (Author)

Synopsis

Using a risk management approach to tease apart the complex issue of climate change, this book assesses the key vulnerabilities and redirects the discussion to present a comprehensive plan to overhaul our response to climate change.


* Introduces a broader audience to climate change as a crisis already in motion that poses predictable risks and urgently requires public policy changes and the creation of a national climate policy

* Makes the invisible crisis of climate change visible and comprehensible by enabling readers to understand the problem in the context of hazard risk and risk management

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Edition: 1
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 07 Dec 2015

ISBN 10: 1440839980
ISBN 13: 9781440839986

Media Reviews
Overall, this is a clearly written and informative introduction to climate change and would be of great value to those without extensive expertise on the subject. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through graduate students and general readers. - Choice
Author Bio

Robert O. Schneider, PhD, is professor of public administration at the University of North Carolina-Pembroke.