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Climate change 2014 : impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the fifth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change / edited by Christopher B. Field, Working Group II Co-Chair, Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Vicente R. Barros, Working Group II Co-Chair, Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la AtmoÌ?sfera, Universidad de Buenos Aries [and 14 others]. |
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Impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the fifth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. |
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New York : NY : Cmabridge University Press, 2014. |
| DESCRIPTION: |
volumes <1-2> : color illustrations, color maps ; 28 cm. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.Part A. Global and sectoral aspects -- Part B. Regional aspects.This work focuses on why climate change matters and is organized into two parts, dev oted respectively to human and natural systems and regional aspects, incorporating results from the reports of Working Groups I and III. |
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The volume addresses impacts that have already occurred and risks of future impacts, especially the way those risks change with the amount of climate change that occurs and with investments in adaptation to climate changes that cannot be avoided. |
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For both past and future impacts, a core focus of the assessment is characterizing knowledge about vulnerabi |
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Vicente R. Barros, Working Group II Co-Chair, Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la AtmoáIásfera, Universidad de Buenos Aries [and 14 others]. |
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the characteristics and interactions that make some events devastating, while others pass with little notice Source other than Library of Congress. |
| SUBJECT: |
Climate changes--Global environmenatl change. |
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Climatic changes |
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Climatic changes--International cooperation. |
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Climatic changes--Government policy. |
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Global environmental change. |
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Field, Christopher B., local |
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Barros, Vicente R., editor. |
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. |
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