| Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change: Interim Results from the U.S. Country Studies Program Contributor(s): Smith, Joel B. (Editor), Huq, Saleemul (Editor), Lenhart, Stephanie (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9048147263 ISBN-13: 9789048147267 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $161.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental) - Science | Earth Sciences - Meteorology & Climatology - Science | Earth Sciences - Geology |
| Dewey: 363.738 |
| Series: Environmental Science and Technology Library |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 8.27" W x 11.69" (2.00 lbs) 368 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Martin Parry University College, London, UK The 13 country studies collected in this re- Adaptations Assessment published by the port represent the first of what is likely to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change become a worldwide, country-by-country (Carter et al., 1994) as an agreed technical estimate of the likely impacts of, and appro- set of scientific methods for climate impact priate adaptations to, greenhouse-gas-in- assessment and has written its own guidance duced global climate change. document, Guidance for Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment (U.S. CSP, 1994). Under the U.N. Framework Convention on The u.S. Country Studies Program devel- Climate Change (UNFCCC), signatories oped the Guidance and other reviews of agreed to two near-term actions and one ma- methodology into a nonspecialist set of jor subsequent one. The two near-term ac- workbooks for use at the country level, tions are to make annual estimates of the which, backed up by advice from experi- emissions and sinks of greenhouse gases, enced scientists from the United States and which are now being reported as part of a other countries, enabled local scientists to country-by-country inventory developed by conduct their own vulnerability and adapta- the U.N. Environment Programme, the Or- tion assessments. |