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Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessments

An International Handbook

Buch | Hardcover

564 Seiten

1996
Kluwer Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-7923-4140-6 (ISBN)

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Providing comprehensive guidance on methods for evaluating the potential impacts of climate change and possible adaptation strategies to cope with those impacts, this handbook offers step-by-step instructions on the application of specific assessment methods. It covers the fo llowing sectors: agriculture, grasslands and livestock, forests, water resources, coastal resources, human health, fisheries and wildlife. The book also offers guidance on the creation of climate change scenarios at a country level, togehter with detailed descriptions of steps to follow in the application of selected assessment methods, data requirements for the methods, interpretation of results, and limitations of the methods. The methodologies described have been widely used in published studies. Over 50 of the developing countries and countries with economies in transition participating in the US Country Studies Program used an earlier version of this handbook as a tool for their vulnerability and adaptation studies.
The handbook is designed to complement the "Technical Guidelines for Assessing Climate Change Impacts and Adaptations" prepared by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 1994), building on the analytical framework and discussion of alternative methods in the IPCC guidelines.

1. U.S. Country Studies Program. 2. Overview of the Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment Process. 3. Defining the Scope of an Assessment. 4. Defining and Applying Scenarios and Using GCM Data for Vulnerability Assessments. 5. Conducting Biophysical Impact and Technical Adaptation Assessments. 6. Integration of Impact Assessment Results. 7. Assessment of Adaptation Policy Options. 8. Documentation and Presentation of Results. Appendices: A. Baseline Scenarios. B. Climate Chane Scenarios for Vulnerability Assessments. C. General Circulation Models and Data. D. Crop Impacts. E. Grassland/Livestock Impacts. F. Forest Impacts. G. Water Resource Impacts. H. Coastal Resource Impacts and Methods of Adaptation Assessment. I. Assessment of Adaptation Options. J. Description of Assessment Methods for Assessing Impacts on Fisheries.

Reihe/Serie	Environmental Science and Technology Library ; v. 7
Zusatzinfo	biography
Sprache	englisch
Einbandart	gebunden
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie
ISBN-10	0-7923-4140-6 / 0792341406
ISBN-13	978-0-7923-4140-6 / 9780792341406
Zustand	Neuware