Future scenarios with significant anthropogenic climate change also display large increases
in world production of fossil fuels, the principal CO2 emission source. Meanwhile, fossil fuel …

This paper reviews the concept of adaptation of human communities to global changes,
especially climate change, in the context of adaptive capacity and vulnerability. It focuses on …

DISASTER RESPONSE AND RECOVERY The new edition of the standard textbook in the
field, updated with new studies and practical guidelines for reacting to the complexities of …

The issue of “measuring” climate change vulnerability and adaptive capacity by means of
indicators divides policy and academic communities. While policy increasingly demands …

This bold and passionate textbook has become a go-to introduction to current and emerging
thinking on the social dimensions of climate change, presenting key concepts and …

The effects of observed and future changes in climate are spatially and socially
differentiated. The impacts of future changes will be felt particularly by resource-dependent …

Climate change impacts and responses are presently observed in physical and ecological
systems. Adaptation to these impacts is increasingly being observed in both physical and …

There are few methodologies for the use of climate change projections in decision making or
risk assessment processes. In this paper we present an approach for climate risk …

Adaptation is a process of deliberate change in anticipation of or in reaction to external
stimuli and stress. The dominant research tradition on adaptation to environmental change …

In the last few decades, environmental contaminants (ECs) have been introduced into the
environment at an alarming rate. There is a risk to human health and aquatic ecosystems …