Integrated Regional Assessment of Global Climate Change

by Edited by C. Gregory Knight , Jill Jäger

• ISBN13: 9780521518109
• ISBN10: 0521518105
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-26
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The aim of integrated regional assessment (IRA) is to promote a better understanding of-and more informed decisions on-how regions contribute, and respond, to global environmental change. Understanding the regional implications of global environmental change is important, because it is at regional levels that global environmental change mitigation must be practiced and that human impacts will be felt. This book provides both a detailed treatment of the methodological challenges of IRA and a set of international examples illustrating the practice and results of assessments at the regional scale.

Table of Contents

The authors	p. vii
Foreword	p. xiii
Integrated regional assessment	p. 1
Integrated regional assessment: overview and framework	p. 29
Integrated regional assessment: qualitative and quantitative issues	p. 50
Scale and scalar dynamics in integrated regional assessments	p. 68
Uncertainty management in integrated regional assessments	p. 90
Vulnerability of people, places, and systems to environmental change	p. 117
Integrating climate change adaptation into sustainable development	p. 150
Stakeholders in integrated regional assessment	p. 160
A framework for integrated regional assessment	p. 186
The global context of integrated regional assessment	p. 199
The Asia-Pacific integrated model	p. 214
Integrated regional assessment for South Asia: a case study	p. 231
Climate change and regional sustainability in the Yangtze Delta, China	p. 255
From Climpacts to SimCLIM: development of an integrated assessment model system	p. 280
Why regional and spatial specificity is needed in environmental assessments	p. 312
The SARCS integrated study of Southeast Asia: research and assessment with networks	p. 332
Institutions for collaborative environmental research in the Americas: a case study of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change (IAI)	p. 352
The Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (RISA) Program: crafting effective assessments for the long haul	p. 367
Integrated regional assessment: reflections on the state of the art	p. 394
Index	p. 405
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