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Climate Impact Assessment - Studies of the Interaction of Climate and Society


Contents

Preface
List of Contributors

PART I OVERVIEWS

1 The Interaction of Climate and Society
Robert W. Kates
2 Climatic Variability and Change
F. Kenneth Hare
3 Research in Climate-Society Interaction
William E. Riebsame
4 Identifying Climate Sensitivity
W. J. Maunder and J. H. Ausubel

PART II  BIOPHYSICAL IMPACTS

5 Agriculture
Henry A. Nix
6 Fisheries
Tsuyoshi Kawasaki
7 Pastoralism
Henri N. Le Houérou
8 Water Resources
Béla Nováky, Csaba Pachner, Károly Szesztay and David Miller
9 Energy Resources
Jill Jäger

PART III SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACTS AND ADJUSTMENTS

10 Health, Nutrition, and Human Development
José Carlos Escudero
11 Analysis of Historical Climate-Society Interaction
Jan de Vries
12 Microeconomic Analysis
C. A. Knox Lovell and V. Kerry Smith
13 Social Analysis
Barbara Farhar-Pilgrim
14 The Impact of Climatic Variations on Agricultural Margins
Martin L. Parry
15 Extreme Event Analysis
R. L. Heathcote
16 Perception
Anne V. T. Whyte
17 Adjustment in Self-provisioning Societies
N. S. Jodha and A. C. Mascarenhas

PART IV INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT

18 Global Modeling and Simulations
Jennifer Robinson
19 Biosphere Models
N. N. Moisseiev, Yu. M. Svirezhev, V. F. Krapivin and A. M. Tarko
20 Scenario Analysis
Lester B. Lave and Dennis Epple
21 Historical Climate Impact Assessments
T. M. L. Wigley, N. J. Huckstep, A. E. J. Ogilvie, G. Farmer, R. Mortimer and M. J. Ingram
22 Recent Assessments
Michael H. Glantz, Jennifer Robinson and Maria E. Krenz
 
 
The electronic version of this publication has been prepared at
the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, India.