Integrated regional assessment of global climate change
By: C. Gregory Knight, Jill Jäger.
Contributors: Jäger, Jill.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780521518109
Subjects: Climatic changes; Global environmental change
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Integrated regional assessment / C. Gregory Knight and Jill Jäger; title: Integrated regional assessment: overview and framework / Brent Yarnal; title: Integrated regional assessment: qualitative and quantitative issues / Elizabeth L. Malone; title: Scale and scalar dynamics in integrated regional assessments / Colin Polsky and Darla K. Munroe; title: Uncertainty management in integrated regional assessment / Marjolein B. A. van Asselt; title: Vulnerability of people, places, and systems to environmental change / Neil Leary and Sara Beresford; title: Integrating climate change adaptation into sustainable development / Thea Dickinson, Livia Bizikova, and Ian Burton; title: Stakeholders in integrated regional assessment / Ann Fisher and Bernd Kasemir; title: A framework for integrated regional assessment / C. Gregory Knight, Ann Fisher, and the CIRA team; title: The global context of integrated regional assessment / Jill Jäger; title: The Asia-Pacific integrated model / Mikiko Kainuma ... [et al.]; title: Integrated regional assessment for South Asia: a case study / P. R. Shukla, Amit Garg, and Subash Dar; title: Climate change and regional sustainability in the Yangtze Delta, China / Yongyuan Yin; title: From CLIMPACTS to SimCLIM: development of an integrated assessment model system / Richard Warrick; title: Why regional and spatial specificity is needed in environmental assessments / Rik Leemans; title: The SARCS integrated study of Southeast Asia: research and assessment with networks / Louis Lebel; title: Institutions for collaborative environmental research in the Americas: a case study of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change (IAI) / Diana Liverman; title: The Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (RISA) program: crafting effective assessments for the long haul / Roger S. Pulwarty, Caitlin Simpson, and Claudia R. Nierenberg; title: Integrated regional assessment: reflections on the state of the art / Jill Jäger and C. Gregory Knight.