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Climate change and globalization in the arctic : an integrated approach to vulnerability assessment /
Climate change vulnerability assessment is a rapidly developing field. However despite the fact that such major trends as globalization and the changing characteristics of the political and economic governance systems are crucial in shaping a community?s capacity to adapt to climate change these tre...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; Sterling, VA :
Earthscan,
2008.
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| Colección: | Earthscan climate.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Climate change vulnerability assessment is a rapidly developing field. However despite the fact that such major trends as globalization and the changing characteristics of the political and economic governance systems are crucial in shaping a community?s capacity to adapt to climate change these trends are seldom included in assessments. This book addresses this shortcoming by developing a framework for qualitative vulnerability assessment in?multiple impact? studies (of climate change and globalization) and applying this framework to several cases of renewable natural resource use. The book. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 254 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-246) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781849770798 1849770794 9781435657526 1435657527 9781136569531 1136569537 9781136569487 1136569480 9781136569524 1136569529 9781138970915 1138970913 |