Climate Impact and Adaptation Assessment: The Ipcc Method

ISBN-13: 9781853832710 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 186 str.

M. L. Parry; Timothy Carter

Opis

A step-by-step guide to the assessment of the impacts from, and potential adaptations to, changes of climate that is based on the approach developed by the authors and other scientists for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Spis treści

Introduction * Understanding and Predicting Climate Change * Climate Impact Assessment: Developing the Method * The First Step: Defining the Problem * The Second Step: Selecting the Method * The Third Step: Testing the Method * The Fourth Step: Developing the Scenarios The Fifth step: Assessing the Impacts * The Sixth and Seventh Steps: Evaluating Adaptive Responses * Conclusions: Organizing the Research and Communicating Results * Appendix 1:Summary and Main Features of Integrated Assessment Models * Appendix 2: Some International Data Sources of Interest in Climate-Impact Assessment Studies * References and Notes * Index