Patt, Anthony (Hrsg.): Assessing Vulnerability to Global Environmental Change

Name: Patt, Anthony (Hrsg.): Assessing Vulnerability to Global Environmental Change
Brand: Taylor and Francis
SKU: 978-1-84407-697-0
Price: 150.00 CHF
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Making Research Useful for Adaptation Decision Making and Policy

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Assessing the vulnerability of human populations to global environmental change, particularly climate change, is now the main imperative of research and international action. However, much of the research into vulnerability is not designed to feed directly into decision making and policy. This book seeks to rectify this problem and bridge the gap.

ISBN: 978-1-84407-697-0

GTIN: 9781844076970

Über den Autor Patt, Anthony (Hrsg.)

Anthony Patt leads the Decisions and Governance Research Group in the Program on Risk and Vulnerability at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, in Austria. He has published extensively on climate vulnerability and climate adaptation in Africa. Dagmar Schratter is currently scientific coordinator of a European Era-Net project on climate change adaptation. She has published extensively on global change vulnerability, ecosystem processes and ecosystem services. Richard Klein coordinates climate policy research at the Stockholm Environment Institute. His research interests include methodological aspects of vulnerability assessment, societal adaptation to climate change, and integration of climate and development policy. Anne Cristina de la Vega-Leinert is currently a researcher and lecturer in applied geography at Greifswald University, Germany. She investigates emergent synergies between biodiversity, development, food and human rights issues in the context of global change.