Changing Climates, Earth Systems and Society (Hardcover, 2010)

Setting the Scene: How Do We Get to a Fitting Future?.- Impacts of Climate Change on Terrestrial Ecosystems and Adaptation Measures for Natural Resource Management.- Fire in the Earth System.- Vanishing Polar Ice Sheets.- Climate and Peatlands.- Climate and Lacustrine Ecosystems.- Rivers.- Climate Change and Desertification with Special Reference to the Cases in China.- Climate Change, Societal Transitions and Changing Infectious Disease Burdens.- Don't We All Want Good Weather and Cheap Food?.- Building Capacity to Cope with Climate Change in the Least Developed Countries.- Climate Change Mitigation Policy: An Overview of Opportunities and Challenges.