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CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES DEL MAR Y LA ATMOSFERA
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
libros
Título:
Climate Change 2014.Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability
Autor/es:
FIELD, CHRIS; BARROS, VICENTE; MASTANDREA, MIKE; MACH, KATHERINE; DOKKEN, DAVE
Editorial:
Cambridge University Press
Referencias:
Lugar: Cambridge; Año: 2014 p. 1790
ISSN:
9781107641655
Resumen:
The Working Group II contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC WGII AR5) considers
climate change impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability. It provides a
comprehensive, up-to-date picture of the current state of knowledge
and level of certainty, based on the available scientific, technical, and
socio-economic literature. As with all IPCC products, the report is the
result of an assessment process designed to highlight both big-picture
messages and key details, to integrate knowledge from diverse disciplines,
to evaluate the strength of evidence underlying findings, and to identify
topics where understanding is incomplete. The focus of the assessment
is providing information to support good decisions by stakeholders at
all levels. The assessment is a unique source of background for decision
support, while scrupulously avoiding advocacy for particular policy
options.
Scope of the Report
Climate change impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability span a vast range
of topics. With the deepening of knowledge about climate change, we
see connections in expanding and diverse areas, activities, and assets
at risk. Early research focused on direct impacts of temperature and
rainfall on humans, crops, and wild plants and animals. New evidence
points to the importance of understanding not only these direct impacts
but also potential indirect impacts, including impacts that can be
transmitted around the world through trade, travel, and security. As a
consequence, few aspects of the human endeavor or of natural ecosystem
processes are isolated from possible impacts in a changing climate. The
interconnectedness of the Earth system makes it impossible to draw a
confined boundary around climate change impacts, adaptation, and
vulnerability. This report does not attempt to bound the issue. Instead,
it focuses on core elements and identifies connecting points where the
issue of climate change overlaps with or merges into other issues.
The integrative nature of the climate change issue underlies three major
new elements of the WGII contribution to the AR5. The first is explicit
coverage of a larger range of topics, with new chapters. Increasing
knowledge, expressed in a rapidly growing corpus of published literature,
enables deeper assessment in a number of areas. Some of these are
geographic, especially the addition of two chapters on oceans. Other
new chapters further develop topics covered in earlier assessments,
reflecting the increased sophistication of the available research.
Expanded coverage of human settlements, security, and livelihoods
builds on new research concerning human dimensions of climate
change. A large increase in the published literature on adaptation
motivates assessment in a suite of chapters.