New directions in climate change vulnerability, impacts, and adaptation assessment : summary of a workshop

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New directions in climate change vulnerability, impacts, and adaptation assessment : summary of a workshop

Title remainder

summary of a workshop

Statement of responsibility

Jennifer F. Brewer, Rapporteur Subcommittee on New Directions in Vulnerability, Impacts, and Adaptation Assessment, Committee on Human Dimensions of Global Change, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council of the National Academies

Creator

• Workshop on New Directions in Vulnerability, Impacts, and Adaptation Assessment, 2008

Contributor

• National Research Council (U.S.), Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change
• Brewer, Jennifer F

Subject

• Climatic changes -- Risk assessment
• Environmental risk assessment
• Global warming
• Climatic changes

Language

eng

Summary

With effective climate change mitigation policies still under development, and with even the most aggressive proposals unable to halt climate change immediately, many decision makers are focusing unprecedented attention on the need for strategies to adapt to climate changes that are now unavoidable. The effects of climate change will touch every corner of the world's economies and societies; adaptation is inevitable. The remaining question is to what extent humans will anticipate and reduce undesired consequences of climate change, or postpone response until after climate change impacts have altered ecological and socioeconomic systems so significantly that opportunities for adaptation become limited. This book summarizes a National Research Council workshop at which presentations and discussion identified specific needs associated with this gap between the demand and supply of scientific information about climate change adaptation. --

Assigning source

Summary from Introduction, p. 1

Cataloging source

CaPaEBR

Government publication

federal national government publication

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

QC981.8.C5

LC item number

N49 2008eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• standards specifications
• bibliography