Climate Change Adaptation in Developed Nations From Theory to Practi
It is now widely accepted that adaptation will be necessary if we are to manage the risks posed by climate change. What we know about adaptation, however, is limited. While there is a well established body of scholarship proposing assessment approaches an
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ADVANCES IN GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH VOLUME 42
Editor-in-Chief Martin Beniston, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Editorial Advisory Board B. Allen-Diaz, Department ESPM-Ecosystem Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A. R.S. Bradley, Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, U.S.A. W. Cramer, Department of Global Change and Natural Systems, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany. H.F. Diaz, Climate Diagnostics Center, Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, NOAA, Boulder, CO, U.S.A. S. Erkman, Institute for communication and Analysis of Science and Technology–ICAST, Geneva, Switzerland R. Garcia Herrera, Faculated de Fisicas, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain M. Lal, Center for Atmospheric Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India. U. Luterbacher, The Graduate Institute of International Studies, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. I. Noble, CRC for Greenhouse Accounting and Research School of Biological Science, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. L. Tessier, Institut Mediterran´een d’Ecologie et Pal´eo´ecologie, Marseille, France. F. Toth, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis Laxenburg, Austria. M.M. Verstraete, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Ec Joint Research Centre, Ispra (VA), Italy.
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ISSN 1574-0919 ISBN 978-94-007-0566-1 DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-0567-8
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Acknowledgments
A number of people contributed to the development of this volume and deserve recognition. Firstly, we kindly thank t
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