Integrated Regional Assessment of Global Climate Change

ISBN-13: 9781108447089 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 426 str.

C. Gregory Knight; Jill Jager

Opis

This volume promotes an understanding of Integrated Regional Assessment (IRA), which analyses how different regions contribute to global environmental change.

Recenzje

'This excellent volume provides a sound and authoritative basis for the development of the next generation of integrated studies in global environmental change. It will be a particularly valuable resource for researchers in this field.' Hassan Virji, Director, START, The Global Change SysTem for Analysis, Research and Training, Washington DC

Spis treści

Foreword; 1. Integrated regional assessment C. Gregory Knight and Jill Jäger; 2. Integrated regional assessment: overview and framework Brent Yarnal; 3. Integrated regional assessment: qualitative and quantitative issues Elizabeth L. Malone; 4. Scale and scalar dynamics in integrated regional assessments Colin Polsky and Darla K. Munroe; 5. Uncertainty management in integrated regional assessment Marjolein B. A. van Asselt; 6. Vulnerability of people, places and systems to environmental change Neil Leary and Sara Beresford; 7. Integrating climate change adaptation into sustainable development Thea Dickinson, Livia Bizikova and Ian Burton; 8. Stakeholders in integrated regional assessment Ann Fisher and Bernd Kasemir; 9. A framework for integrated regional assessment C. Gregory Knight, Ann Fisher and the CIRA team; 10. The global context of integrated regional assessment Jill Jäger; 11. The Asia-Pacific integrated model Mikiko Kainuma, Yuzuru Matsuoka, Tsuneyuki Morita and Kiyoshi Takahashi; 12. Integrated regional assessment for South Asia: a case study P. R. Shukla, Amit Garg and Subash Dhar; 13. Climate change and regional sustainability in the Yangtze Delta, China Yongyuan Yin; 14. From CLIMPACTS to SimCLIM: development of an integrated assessment model system Richard Warrick; 15. Why regional and spatial specificity is needed in environmental assessments Rik Leemans; 16. The SARCS integrated study of Southeast Asia: assessments with networks Louis Lebel; 17. Institutions for collaborative environmental research in the Americas: a case study of the Inter American Institute for Global Change (IAI) Diana Liverman; 18. The Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessment (RISA) program: crafting effective assessments for the long haul Roger S. Pulwarty, Claudia Nierenberg and Caitlin Simpson; 19. Integrated regional assessment: reflections on the state of the art Jill Jäger and C. Gregory Knight; Index.