Research Catalog

Title

Special report on emissions scenarios : a special report of Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change / Nebojša Nakićenović [and others].

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Nakićenović, Nebojša.
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Working Group III.

Description

599 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm

Summary

"This IPCC Special Report is the most comprehensive and state-of-the-art assessment available of greenhouse gas emissions scenarios, and provides invaluable information for industry, policy-makers, environmental organizations, and researchers in global change, technology, engineering and economics."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

• Emissions scenarios
• Emissions scenarios.

Subjects

• CLIMATE CHANGE
• ENVIRONMENT EFFECTS
• GREENHOUSE EFFECT
• Milieueffecten
• Broeikaseffect
• Computermodellen
• Klimaatveranderingen
• Emissies (milieu)
• Prognose
• Luftverschmutzung
• Klimaänderung
• Climatic changes > Forecasting
• Pollution de l'air
• Changement climatique
• Greenhouse gases > Forecasting

Note

• "Published for the Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change".

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Background and overview -- Overview of the scenario literature -- Scenario driving forces -- Overview of scenarios -- Emission scenarios -- Summary discussions and recommendations -- SRES terms of reference -- SRES writing team and SRES reviewers -- Definition of SRES world regions -- Six modeling approaches -- Database description -- Open process -- Statistical tables -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- Chemical symbols -- Units.

ISBN

• 0521800811
• 9780521800815
• 0521804930
• 9780521804936

LCCN

00711851

OCLC

• ocm44652561
• 44652561
• SCSB-1204363

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library