Climate Change as a Special Problem of Sustainable Development
Climate change, its causes and consequences, is arguably one of the most difficult problems facing humanity today. The roots of the difficulty lie in the nature of the problem itself and the inter-relationships it has with other many different branches of knowledge. The hard data regarding changes in climate and its implications comes from atmospheric physics, meteorology, physical and biological sciences, as well as ecology. The socioeconomic implications are identified through the disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and economics. Public policy and political theory is used for finding out possible global consensus on interventions to mitigate the problem, as any solution ...
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