Assessing the Impacts of Climate Change on Natural Resource Systems

1. Front Matter

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2. Integrated Assessments of the Impacts of Climate Change on Natural Resources

   • Kenneth D. Frederick

   Pages 1-14

3. Framework for Integrated Assessments of Global Warming Impacts

   • Robert Mendelsohn, Norman J. Rosenberg

   Pages 15-44

4. Modeling Land Use and Cover as Part of Global Environmental Change

   • William E. Riebsame, William B. Meyer, B. L. Turner II

   Pages 45-64

5. Assessing Impacts of Climate Change on Forests: The State of Biological Modeling

   • Virginia H. Dale, H. Michael Rauscher

   Pages 65-90

6. Integrating Climatic Change and Forests: Economic and Ecologic Assessments

   • Clark S. Binkley, G. Cornelis van Kooten

   Pages 91-110

7. Environmental Change in Grasslands: Assessment Using Models

   • William J. Parton, Dennis S. Ojima, David S. Schimel

   Pages 111-141

8. Assessing the Socioeconomic Impacts of Climate Change on Grazinglands

   • J. Richard Conner

   Pages 143-157

9. Modeling the Effects of Climate Change on Water resources — A Review

   • George H. Leavesley

   Pages 159-177

10. Assessing the Socioeconomic Consequences of Climate Change on Water Resources

    • Peter Rogers

    Pages 179-208

11. Conclusions, Remaining Issues, and Next Steps

    • Kenneth D. Frederick, Indur M. Goklany, Norman J. Rosenberg

    Pages 209-219

This volume characterizes the current state of natural science and socioeconomic modeling of the impacts of climate change and current climate variability on forests, grasslands, and water. It identifies what can be done currently with impact assessments and suggests how to undertake such assessments. Impediments to linking biophysical and socioeconomic models into integrated assessments for policy purposes are identified, and recommendations for future research activities to improve the state of the art and remove these impediments to model integration are provided.
This book is for natural and social scientists with an interest in the impacts of climate change on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and their socioeconomic impacts, and policy makers interested in understanding the status of current assessment capabilities and in identifying priority areas for future research.

• Climate Change
• Global warming
• Water Resources
• ecosystem
• environmental change
• forest
• ecotoxicology

• Resources for the Future, USA

  Kenneth D. Frederick

• Battelle, Pacific Northwest Laboratories, USA

  Norman J. Rosenberg

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