Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Joel B. Smith, Saleemul Huq, Stephanie Lenhart, Luis Jose Mata, Ivana Nemešová, Sekou Toure

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3. Methods for Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment

   • Joel Smith, Ana Iglesias, Stephen Leatherman, Kenneth Strzepek, Thomas Smith, Barry Baker et al.

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4. Summary of Results by Vulnerability Sector

   • Joel B. Smith, Saleemul Huq, Stephanie Lenhart, Luis Jose Mata, Ivana Nemešová, Sekou Toure

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5. Regional Summary

   • Saleemul Huq, Luis Jose Mata, Ivana Nemesova, Sekou Toure

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6. Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessments for the Gambia

   • Bubu P. Jallow

   Pages 109-128

7. Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessments for Zimbabwe

   • C. H. Matarira, W. Kamukondiwa, F. C. Mwamuka, J. M. Makadho, L. S. Unganai

   Pages 129-140

8. Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessments for Bangladesh

   • Ahsan Uddin Ahmed, Saleemul Huq, Zahurul Karim, Md. Asaduzzaman, A. Atiq Rahman, Mozaharul Alam et al.

   Pages 141-159

9. Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessments for Kazakhstan

   • Olga Pilifosova, Irina Eserkepova, Svetlana Mizina, Paishan Kozhahmetov, Grigory Chichasov, Lubov Lebed et al.

   Pages 161-181

10. Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessments for Mongolia

    • P. Batima, Sh. Bayasgalan, B. Bolortsetseg, D. Dagvadorj, R. Mijiddorj, L. Natsagdorj

    Pages 183-206

11. Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessments for Sri Lanka

    • Upali Weerakkody

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12. Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessments for the Czech Republic

    • Bedřich Moldan, Jarošlava Kalvová, Ivana Nemešová, Josef Hladný, Rudolf Brázdil, Jaroslav Rožnovský et al.

    Pages 225-247

13. Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessments for Estonia

    • Are Kont, Jaan-Mati Punning, Jaak Jaagus, Jaan Klõšeiko, Tiiu Koff, Malle Mandre et al.

    Pages 249-275

14. Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessments for Poland

    • Ryszard B. Zeidler

    Pages 277-294

15. Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessments for Slovakia

    • Milan Lapin, Dušan Závodský, Olga Majercáková, Jozef Mindáš, František Špánik

    Pages 295-312

16. Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessments for Ukraine

    • I. Trofimova, S. Koublanov, E. Shmurak, I. Buksha, V. Meshkova, A. Sidorov et al.

    Pages 313-333

17. Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessments for Peru

    • Nestor Teves, Gustavo Laos, Carmen San Roman, Sulma Carrasco, Luis Clemente

    Pages 335-346

18. Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessments for Venezuela

    • Martha Perdomo, Maria de Lourdes Olivo, Yamil Bonduki, Luis Jose Mata

    Pages 347-366

19. Back Matter

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Martin Parry University College, London, UK The 13 country studies collected in this re­ Adaptations Assessment published by the port represent the first of what is likely to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change become a worldwide, country-by-country (Carter et al., 1994) as an agreed technical estimate of the likely impacts of, and appro­ set of scientific methods for climate impact priate adaptations to, greenhouse-gas-in­ assessment and has written its own guidance duced global climate change. document, Guidance for Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment (U.S. CSP, 1994). Under the U.N. Framework Convention on The u.S. Country Studies Program devel­ Climate Change (UNFCCC), signatories oped the Guidance and other reviews of agreed to two near-term actions and one ma­ methodology into a nonspecialist set of jor subsequent one. The two near-term ac­ workbooks for use at the country level, tions are to make annual estimates of the which, backed up by advice from experi­ emissions and sinks of greenhouse gases, enced scientists from the United States and which are now being reported as part of a other countries, enabled local scientists to country-by-country inventory developed by conduct their own vulnerability and adapta­ the U.N. Environment Programme, the Or­ tion assessments.

• Adaptation
• adaptation to climate change
• climate
• climate change
• development
• water

• Hagler Bailly Consulting, Inc., Boulder, USA

  Joel B. Smith, Stephanie Lenhart

• Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  Saleemul Huq

• Fluid Mechanic Institute, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela

  Luis Jose Mata

• Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

  Ivana Nemešová

• Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Travaux Publics, Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoîre, France

  Sekou Toure

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