Chapter 7: Climate Change: Evidence and Future Scenarios for the Andean Region

MARENGO JOSÉ; PABON DANIEL; DIAZ ALVARO.; ROSAS GABRIELA; AVALOS GRINIA; MONTEALEGRE E.; VILLACIS M.; SOLMAN SILVINA ALICIA; ROJAS MAISA

Climate change and biodiversity in the Tropical Andes

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) and Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE)

Lugar: San Pablo; Año: 2011; p. 110 - 127

Climate change is one of the most relevant topics on the current international environmental agenda. It cuts across economies, trade, and political decisions in our globalized world. In South America, the countries of the Andean region will be the ones most affected by the consequences of climate change. This chapter is intended to provide an integrated overview of climate change in the Andean region based on observational studies and climate projections currently being discussed in the international and national literature on the tropical Andean countries.