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Material Type: | Conference publication |
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Document Type: | Computer File, Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Martin L Parry; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. |
ISBN: | 0521705975 9780521705974 9780521880107 0521880106 |
OCLC Number: | 633491845 |
Description: | 1 CD-ROM ; 12 cm. |
Contents: | Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Summary for policymakers; Technical summary; 1. Assessment of observed changes and responses in natural and managed systems; 2. New assessment methodologies and the characterisation of future conditions; 3. Fresh water resources and their management; 4. Ecosystems, their properties, goods and services; 5. Food, fibre and forest products; 6. Coastal systems and low-lying areas; 7. Industry, settlement and society; 8. Human health; 9. Africa; 10. Asia; 11. Australia and New Zealand; 12. Europe; 13. Latin America; 14. North America; 15. Polar regions (Arctic and Antarctic); 16. Small islands; 17. Assessment of adaptation practices, options, constraints and capacity; 18. Inter-relationships between adaptation and mitigation; 19. Assessing key vulnerabilities and the risk from climate change; 20. Perspectives on climate change and sustainability - 811 Cross-chapter case studies; Appendix I. Glossary; Appendix II. Contributors to the IPCC WGII Fourth Assessment Report; Appendix III. Reviewers of the IPCC WGII Fourth Assessment Report; Appendix IV. Acronyms and abbreviations; Appendix V. Index and database of regional content; Index; CD-ROM. |
Series Title: | Climate change 2007 : contribution of Working Group ... to the fourth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Working Group 2 |
Other Titles: | Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability |
Responsibility: | ed. by Martin Parry ... |
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