Understanding Earth's Polar Challenges
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Total Pages | : 695 |
Release | : 2011 |
ISBN-10 | : 9524844036 |
ISBN-13 | : 9789524844031 |
Rating | : 4/5 (031 Downloads) |
Download or read book Understanding Earth's Polar Challenges written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 695 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "IPY 2007-2008 generated a much anticipated 'pulse' (momentum) in the form of substantial new funding for polar research and monitoring programs, new observational and analysis technologies, integrated system-level approaches, and a broadened circle of stakeholders. It introduced new research and organizational paradigms that will have a lasting legacy of their own. It showed the power of integrative vision, and consolidated a new transdisciplinary approach that now includes biology, human health, social sciences, and the humanities, in addition to meteorology, glaciology, oceanography, geophysics, geology, and other traditional polar research fields. It sent a powerful message about the societal value of advanced research into rapid environmental change across the polar regions."--Publisher's webpage.