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Assessing Vulnerability to Global Environmental Change: Making Research Useful for Adaptation Decision Making and Policy

By Richard J. T. Klein , Anthony G. Patt , Dagmar Schröter , Anne Cristina de la Vega-Leinert , Hans Joachim Schellnhuber , Rik Leemans

Book information

Publisher
Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Year
2008
ISBN
9781844076970, 1844076970
LCC
GE149 .A88 2008
Open Library ID
OL17010782M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2052321 bytes)
Pages
285\285
Topic
Biology Ecology
Library
avaxhome.ws
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

Description

Assessing the vulnerability of human populations to global environmental change, particularly climate change, is now the main imperative of research and international action. This book seeks to make interpretation of vulnerability research informative to decision and policy making and to bridge the gap between knowledge created by researchers and what is required by decision makers.It discusses vulnerability as the central theme and brings together many different applications from disaster studies, climate change impact studies and several other fields. The book provides the most comprehensive synthesis of definitions, theories, formalization and applications, illustrated with examples from different disciplines, regions and periods and from local through to regional, national and international levels. The book concludes with a unifying framework for analyzing integrated methodologies of vulnerability assessment and guiding how research and policy can be linked to reduce vulnerability.

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