Our Warming Planet: Climate Change Impacts And Adaptation

The second volume in the Lectures in Climate Change series, edited by friends and colleagues of Dr. Martin Parry, covers climate impacts and adaptation measures. It includes written text, electronic slides, and presentations from experts in the field. The volume explores topics such as challenges, global assessments, downscaling, community-based adaptation, biodiversity, food systems, water resources, and cities. Research from around the world is presented on making science actionable, communicating climate risk, documenting adaptation uptake, and transforming towards systemic resilience.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 708 pages
\n Publication date: 16 November 2021
\n Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
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This comprehensive volume, the second installment in the Lectures in Climate Change series, delves into the wide-ranging impacts and adaptation strategies associated with climate change. It has been meticulously compiled by a group of friends and colleagues, including Dr. Martin Parry, the Co-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2007 assessment on impacts and adaptation. The authors, who are esteemed experts in their respective fields, have played pivotal roles as lead authors in numerous IPCC assessments and other significant publications.

Lectures in Climate Change stands out as a unique resource, offering a combination of written text and electronic slides that together form an informative and up-to-date set of presentations. The second volume, titled Our Warming Planet: Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation, encompasses a diverse range of topics related to climate science, methodologies, sectors, regional and national studies, and policy and practice. These topics include the current and future challenges posed by climate change, global assessments, downscaling approaches, community-based adaptation strategies, the impacts on biodiversity, food systems, water resources, and cities.

The volume presents research from across the globe, highlighting the importance of making scientific knowledge actionable through assessments, early warning systems, effective communication of climate risks, documenting the global adoption of adaptation measures, and fostering systemic resilience. Additionally, this publication includes downloadable electronic slides and accompanying notes for students, teachers, and public speakers, empowering them to better understand and effectively communicate the impacts and adaptation strategies related to climate change.

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\n Weight: 1726g\n
Dimension: 216 x 281 x 45 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9789811239298\n \n