The book assesses the state of knowledge about climate change indicators, impacts, and adaptive capacity of the Hawaiian archipelago and the US-Affiliated Pacific Islands.
Summarizes the science of climate change and impacts on the United States, for the public and policymakers.
This Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report (IPCC-SREX) explores the challenge of understanding and managing the risks of climate extremes to advance climate change adaptation.
Prowse, T.D., F.J. Wrona, J. Reist, J.J. Gibson, J.E. Hobbie, L.M.J. Levesque and W.F. Vincent, 2006a: Climate change ... Reist, J., F.J. Wrona, T.D. Prowse, M. Power, J.B. Dempson, R. Beamish, J.R. King, T.J. Carmichael and C.D. ...
Building on the 2012 report, Turn Down the Heat: Why a 4°C Warmer World Must be Avoided, this new scientific analysis examines the likely impacts of present day, 2°C and 4°C warming on agricultural production, water resources, and ...
Laugharne, J., G. Van de Watt, and A. Janca, 2011: After the fire: The mental health consequences of fire disasters. ... /hsq/health-statistics-quarterly/no--29--spring-2006/mortality-in-southern-england-during-the-2003-heat-wave-by197.
The Pacific developing member countries of the Asian Development Bank are highly vulnerable to the predicted effects of climate change, including higher sea levels, intense storm surges and cyclones, erratic rainfall patterns, and major ...
This open access book describes the serious threat of invasive species to native ecosystems. Invasive species have caused and will continue to cause enormous ecological and economic damage with ever increasing world trade.
On top of a decade of exacerbated disaster loss, exceptional global heat, retreating ice and rising sea levels, humanity and our food security face a range of new and unprecedented hazards, such as megafires, extreme weather events, desert ...
This volume, like its predecessor, will be invaluable for a range of audiences involved with climate change and cities: mayors, city officials and policymakers; urban planners; policymakers charged with developing climate change mitigation ...