Global Change and Local Places : Estimating, Understanding, and Reducing Greenhouse Gases (Hardcover)

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.