Understanding the earth system : global change science for application

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1 -- Earth system science and society: a focus on the anthroposphere /Sarah E. Cornell, Catherine J. Downy, Evan D.G. Fraser and Emily Boyd -- 2 -- Fundamentals of climate change science /I. Colin Prentice, Peter G. Baines, Marko Scholze and Martin J. Wooster -- 3 -- How has climate responded to natural perturbations? /Eric W. Wolff, Sandy P. Harrison, Reto Knutti, Maria Fernanda Sanchez-Goñi, Oliver Wild, Anne-Laure Daniau, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, I. Colin Prentice and Renato Spahni -- 4 -- The Earth system feedbacks that matter for contemporary climate /Pierre Friedlingstein, Angela V. Gallego-Sala, Eleanor M. Blyth, Fiona E. Hewer, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Allan Spessa, Parvadha Suntharalingam and Marko Scholze -- 5 -- Earth system models: a tool to understand changes in the Earth system /Marko Scholze, J. Icarus Allen, Wiliam J. Collins, Sarah E. Cornell, Chris Huntingford, Manoj M. Joshi, Jason A. Lowe, Robin S. Smith and Oliver Wild -- 6 -- Climate change impacts and adaptation: an Earth system view /Richard A. Betts, Nigel W. Arnell, Penelope M. Boorman, Sarah E. Cornell, Joanna I. House, Neil R. Kaye, Douglas J. McNeall, Michael G. Sanderson and Andrew J. Wiltshire -- 7 -- The role of land bioshpere in climage change mitigation /Joanna I. House, Jessica Bellarby, Hannes Böttcher, Matthew Brander, Nicole Kalas, Pete Smith, Richard Tipper and Jeremy Woods -- 8 -- Society's responses and knowledge gaps /Sarah E. Cornell and I. Colin Prentice