The Science and Policy of Global Climate Change

Contents: Preface. 1. Climate change: science and policy implications. 2. International equity and climate change policy. 3. Climate change, sustainable development and India: global and national concerns. 4. Global climate change: major scientific and policy issues. 5. Climate change and air pollution: research and policy. 6. Global climate change triggered by global warming. 7. Science and policy of global change stabilization and global climate policy. 8. Climate change science and policy: lessons from India. 9. Democracy, climate change and global governance policy network. 10. Regionalism and global climate change policy. 11. Global climate change is a major public policy. 12. Science in support of adaptation to climate change. 13. Making climate impact and adaptation research meaningful to local decision making. 14. Rethinking the Kyoto protocol: are there legal solution to global warming and climate change. 15. Global climate change: three policy perspectives. Bibliography. Index.

Global climate change is caused by the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the lower atmosphere. The global concentration of these gases is increasing, mainly due to human activities, such as the combustion of fossil fuels, which release carbon dioxide and deforestation because forests remove carbon from the atmosphere. The atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, has increased by  30 percent since preindustrial times.