The Setting This chapter describes the information basis for the Fifth Assessment Report
(AR5) of IPCC Working Group II (WGII) and the rationale for its structure. As the starting point …

The world community faces many risks from climate change. C learly, it is important to
understand the nature of those risks, where natural and human systems are likely to be most …

'Sound and solid case studies on vulnerability and adaptation have been woefully lacking in
the international discourse on climate change. This set of books begins to bridge the …

The term 'vulnerability'is used in many different ways by various scholarly communities. The
resulting disagreement about the appropriate definition of vulnerability is a frequent cause …

The publication of the Working Group II (WGII) Fourth Assessment Report of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a significant occasion for this journal …

Since the early years of the twenty-first century, the United States has been awakening
rapidly to the fact that climate change is underway and that adaptation to the unavoidable …

Human interference with the climate system is occurring.[WGI AR5 2.2, 6.3, 10.3-6, 10.9]
Climate change poses risks for human and natural systems (Figure TS. 1). The assessment …

Human interference with the climate system is occurring, and climate change poses risks for
human and natural systems. The assessment of impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability in the …

This massive volume is the contribution of Working Group II to the Third Assessment Report
of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Together, this and its three …