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Climate Vulnerability. Understanding and Addressing Threats to Essential Resources

  • Book

  • April 2013
  • Elsevier Science and Technology
  • ID: 2485461

Climate change has been the subject of thousands of books and magazines, scientific journals, and newspaper articles daily. It's a subject that can be very political and emotional, often blurring the lines between fact and fiction. The vast majority of research, studies, projections and recommendations tend to focus on the human influence on climate change and global warming as the result of CO2 emissions, often to the exclusion of other threats that include population growth and the stress placed on energy sources due to emerging global affluence.

Climate Vulnerability, Five Volume Set seeks to strip away the politics and emotion that surround climate change and will assess the broad range of threats using the bottom up approach-including CO2 emissions, population growth, emerging affluence, and many others-to our five most critical resources: water, food, ecosystems, energy, and human health. Inclusively determining what these threats are while seeking preventive measures and adaptations is at the heart of this unique reference work.

Table of Contents

Vulnerability of Human Health to�Climate; Vulnerability of Food Resources to Climate; Vulnerability of Energy to Climate; Vulnerability of Ecosystems to Climate; Vulnerability of Water Resources to Climate.