Provides updated, theoretical and methodological information on regional climate change and environmental and socio-economic impacts on a regional scale. The findings presented in the field of long-term climate change improve our understanding of the global climate puzzle.

For the very first time, this book provides updated, integrated and organized, theoretical and methodological information on regional climate change and the associated environmental and socio-economic impacts on a regional scale. The most recent findings in the field of long-term climate change, which improve our understanding of the global climate puzzle, will be presented. Readers are introduced to state-of-the-art research in downscaling and GCMs, which involve the construction of reliable regional climate scenarios and the solution to key problems regarding the assessment of the impacts...