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

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Workshop on New Directions in Vulnerability, Impacts, and Adaptation Assessment, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

National Academies Press (U.S.)

National Research Council (U.S.). Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education.

Conference Name:

Workshop on New Directions in Vulnerability, Impacts, and Adaptation Assessment (2008 : Washington, D.C.)

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Risk assessment.

Climatic changes.

Environmental risk assessment.

Global warming.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (45 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : National Academies Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

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. -- Summary from Introduction, p. 1.

Contents:

""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Presentations""; ""Discussion: Emerging Needs in Decision Support""; ""Discussion: Organizational Needs and Issues""; ""Discussion: Research Priorities""; ""Wrap-Up Comments""; ""Appendix: Workshop Participants""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-309-17869-X

1-282-00803-X

9786612008030

0-309-13007-7

OCLC:

923279855