Climate Change in the Adirondacks: The Path to Sustainability
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (985 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0801476518 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-21 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Summing up: Essential."Choice. Caveats, assumptions, and uncertainties are clearly identified but not allowed to overwhelm the presentation. Unassumingly authoritative, it can be read and appreciated by audiences from high schoolers to professional scientists to energy scholars. Using the Adirondacks as a microcosm, Jenkins examines its economy, ecology, population behaviors, carbon footprint, energy usage and distribution, community structure, infrastructure, and industry to determine how and if the region could realistically reach carbon neutrality and energy sustainability in the next 20 years. What makes this book so valuable is that Jenkins has crafted a readable and useful reference developed with local Adirondack conditions in mind:
It what you need to know. Written in a clear and easy to read style. This is the information we all need to know about Climate Change.
"Thanks to Jerry Jenkins, I think the future has been plotted more firmly for the Adirondacks than perhaps any other region on the planet. With his trademark ability to work across disciplines, he has taken evidence from every branch of the sciences, including the social sciences, to paint a devastating picture of where we are headed. These are the biggest changes the park has faced since the last Ice Age, and if we allow them to play out in full many of the glories of the Adirondacks will simpl
Jerry Jenkins is a researcher for the Wildlife Conservation Society and author of The Adirondack Atlas: A Geographic Portrait of the Adirondack Park.