Main Title |
A federal leader's guide to climate change : policy, adaptation, and mitigation / |
Other Authors |
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Publisher |
LMI, |
Year Published |
2009 |
OCLC Number |
401768124 |
ISBN |
9780966191653; 096619165X |
Subjects |
Climatic changes--Government policy--United States ;
Global warming
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Holdings |
Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last Modified |
Checkout Status |
EJBM |
QC903.F293 2009 |
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Headquarters Library/Washington,DC |
11/28/2017 |
EOAM |
QC903.F293 2009 |
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Region 8 Technical Library/Denver,CO |
03/09/2015 |
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Collation |
xv, 245 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm |
Notes |
"February 2009." Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-211) and index. |
Contents Notes |
"The guide offers a well-founded, unbiased, public, and nonpartisan introduction to the way that climate change will affect the operation of the federal government. It furnishes federal leaders a succinct, understandable, yet rigorous reference that explains specific issues and actions within the federal realm. It details the basic information leaders need when executing their responsibilities and illustrates actions through specific examples"--Page v. Climate change and the federal domain -- The science of climate change -- National approaches to managing GHGs -- Organizational approaches to managing GHGs -- Impacts of climate change -- Adaption to climate change -- International climate change response. |