Geoscience Reference
In-Depth Information
FURTHER READING
McGuire, B., Mason, I., and Kilburn, C. (2002), Natural Hazard and Environmental Change, London: Arnold. The authors
provide a concise, wide-ranging and well illustrated account of changes triggered by, and impacting on, human activities
in the environment and with the third IPCC assessment (2001) in mind.
Neilson, R. P. and Marks, D. (1994) 'A global perspective of regional vegetation and hydrologic sensitivities from climate
change' J.Vegetation Science 5, 715-30. A useful source of maps showing the changes in the location of major terrestrial
biomes that may result from global warming.
Oldfield, F. (2005) Environmental change: key issues and alternative perspectives, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
An excellent survey of key issues concerning climate change and its potential impacts. Also includes a balanced
discussion of alternative views of global warming.
Ørbæk, J. B., et al.(eds) (2007) Arctic Alpine Ecosystems and People in a Changing Environment, Meppel: Springer Berlin:
Hindenburg.
Parry, M. L., Canziani, O. F., Palutikov, J. et al.(2007) Technical Summary, Climate Change 2007: Impacts, adaptation and
vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change,Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 23-78 (and especially
chapters 1,
6 a
nd
15 o
f the full work).
The Working Group II report follows up on the physical basis of climate set out in the Working Group I report by
developing the likely impacts and responses.
Solomon, S., Qin, D., Manning, M. et al. (2007) Technical Summary, Climate Change 2007: the physical science basis.
Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (and especially
chapters 4
and
5
of the full work). The technical summary
provides a digest of the huge compendium of scientific empirical data and evidence for climate change which follows,
which is an excellent and comprehensive resource. The Working Group 1 report is the most authoritative and up-to-
date account of global climate change.
WEB RESOURCES
http://www.acia.uaf.edu Th
e Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA) is the most recent statement of environmental
change in the Arctic to come out of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP). It covers all aspects of
the physical and biological environments, with also material on the input of indigenous peoples ('traditional ecological
knowledge').
http://arctic.noaa.gov/detect/ T
he prestigious American government organization, the National Oceanographic and
Atmospheric Administration, (NOAA) monitors global environmental trends, and has produced this website on changes
in the Arctic environment.
http://www.dmu.dk/LakeandEstuarineEcology/camp;
http://www.zackenberg.dk T
hese two websites give details of the
work of Danish scientists in studying environmental change in Greenland.
http://www.ecn.ac.uk/research.asp T
he UK-wide network of research sites of the Environmental Change Network (ECN)
provides a wealth of information on environmental change across the United Kingdom; there are many data suitable
for teaching and research.
http://www.itex-science.net T
he International Tundra Experiment (ITEX) is one of several which have been set up recently
to monitor environmental change across the Earth's biomes.
