Edited By: Neil Leary, Cecilia Conde, Jyoti Kulkarni, Anthony Nyong and Juan Pulhun
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Many parts of the developing world are subject to variable and extreme climate, the impacts of which impede development and point to the need to improve the understanding and management of climate risks. These needs are being amplified by human-caused climate change.
This book discusses who is vulnerable and the nature and causes of their vulnerability for parts of the world that have been poorly researched till now. It also provides researchers with new examples of applications of vulnerability assessment methods, an approach that is of growing interest in the climate change area but for which there are relatively few applications in the literature. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded in its 2001 report that much of the developing world is highly vulnerable to adverse impacts from climate change. But the IPCC also concluded that the vulnerabilities of developing countries are too little studied and too poorly understood to enable determination of adaptation strategies that would be effective at reducing risks. This authoritative volume (along with its companion covering adaptation), resulting from the work of the Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change (AIACC) project launched by the IPCC in 2002, is the first to provide a comprehensive investigation of the issues at stake.
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Part I: Introduction and Synthesis; Part II: Natural Resources; Part III: Coastal Areas and Small Island; Part IV: Rural Economy and Food Security; Part V: Human Health; Bibliography, Index.
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Neil Leary is Science Director of AIACC Project and Senior Scientist, International START Secretariat, Washington, DC, USA. Cecilia Conde is a research assistant at the Center of Atmospheric Sciences, UNAM. Jyoti Kulkarni is a program associate at the International START Secretariat, Washington, DC, USA. Anthony Nyong is a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Task Group on Data and Scenario Support for Impact and Climate Analysis (TGICA) and Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Environmental Resources and Hazards Research, University of Jos, Nigeria. Juan Pulhin is Associate Professor at the College of Forestry and Natural Resources (CFNR), University of the Philippines Los Banos, Philippines.
Edited By: Neil Leary, Cecilia Conde, Jyoti Kulkarni, Anthony Nyong and Juan Pulhun
428 pages, Figs, tabs
* 'An excellent set of case studies and analysis on vulnerability to climate change in different sectors and countries in the developing world.' Saleemul Huq, Director, Climate Change Programme, International Institute for Environment and Development