Climate change in the Great Lakes region navigating an uncertain future / edited by Thomas Dietz and David Bidwell.
| Other author | Dietz, Thomas |
| Other author | Bidwell, David, 1969 |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2012. |
| Description | 269 pages illustrations 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| Physical medium | illustrations |
| Contents | Thinking about climate change in the Great Lakes region -- pt. 1. Effects of climate change in the Great Lakes region -- Historical climate trends in Michigan and the Great Lakes region / Jeffrey Andresen -- Climate change impacts and adaptation strategies for Great Lakes nearshore and coastal systems / Scudder Mackey -- Climate change and biodiversity in the Great Lakes region: From "Fingerprints" of change to helping safeguard species / Kimberly Hall / Terry Root -- pt. 2. Decision making and climate change -- Decision making under climate uncertainty: The power of understanding judgement and decision processes / Sabine Marx / Elke Weber -- Agricultural adaptation to climate change: Is uncertain information usable knowledge? / William Easterling / Clark Seipt / Adam Terando / Xianzeng Niu -- Adapting to climate change in the context of multiple risks: A case study of cash crop farming in Ontario / Ben Bradshaw / Suzanne Belliveau / Barry Smit -- pt. 3. Adaptation tools and case studies -- The contextual importance of uncertainty in climate-sensitive decision-making: Toward an integrative decision-centered screening tool / Susanne Moser -- Linking science to decision making in the Great Lakes region / Joel Scheraga -- The development and communication of an ensemble of local-scale climate scenarios: An example from the Pileus project / Julie Winkler / Jeanne Bisanz / Galina Guentchev / Krerk Piromsopa / Jenni van Ravensway / Haryono Prawiranata / Ryan Torre / Hai Kyung Min / Johnathan Clark -- Preparing for climate change in the Great Lakes region. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2011008830 |
| ISBN | 9781611860122 cloth : alk. paper |
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