Authors
Christopher B Field, Vicente R Barros, Michael D Mastrandrea, Katharine J Mach, Mohamed AK Abdrabo, W Neil Adger, Yury A Anokhin, Oleg A Anisimov, Douglas J Arent, Jonathan Barnett, Virginia R Burkett, Rongshuo Cai, Monalisa Chatterjee, Stewart J Cohen, Wolfgang Cramer, Purnamita Dasgupta, Debra J Davidson, Fatima Denton, Petra Doll, Kirstin Dow, Yasuaki Hijioka, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Richard G Jones, Roger N Jones, Roger L Kitching, R Sari Kovats, Joan Nymand Larsen, Erda Lin, David B Lobell, Iñigo J Losada, Graciela O Magrin, José A Marengo, Anil Markandya, Bruce A McCarl, Roger F McLean, Linda O Mearns, Guy F Midgley, Nobuo Mimura, John F Morton, Isabelle Niang, Ian R Noble, Leonard A Nurse, K O'Brien, Taikan Oki, Lennart Olsson, Michael Oppenheimer, Jonathan T Overpeck, J Pereira, Elvira S Poloczanka, John R Porter, Hans-Otto Pörtner, M Prather, Roger Pulwarty, Andy Reisinger, Aromar Revi, Patricia Romero-Lankao, Oliver C Ruppel, David E Satterthwaite, Daniela N Schmidt, Josef Settele, Kirk R Smith, Daithi A Stone, Avelino G Suarez, Petra Tschakert, Riccardo Valentini, Alicia Villamizar, Rachel Warren, Thomas J Wilbanks, Poh Poh Wong, Alistair Woodward, Gary W Yohe
Publication date
2015/3/1
Book
Climate change 2014: impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability. Part A: global and sectoral aspects. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Pages
1-32
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Description
Human interference with the climate system is occurring, 1 and climate change poses risks for human and natural systems (Figure SPM. 1). The assessment of impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability in the Working Group II contribution to the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (WGII AR5) evaluates how patterns of risks and potential benefits are shifting due to climate change. It considers how impacts and risks related to climate change can be reduced and managed through adaptation and mitigation. The report assesses needs, options, opportunities, constraints, resilience, limits, and other aspects associated with adaptation.
Climate change involves complex interactions and changing likelihoods of diverse impacts. A focus on risk, which is new in this report, supports decision making in the context of climate change and complements other elements of the report. People and societies may perceive or rank risks and potential benefits differently, given diverse values and goals.
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