IPCC Fourth Assessment Report: Climate Change 2007
Climate Change 2007: Working Group II: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

Coordinating Lead Authors:

Tom Wilbanks (USA), Patricia Romero Lankao (Mexico)

Lead Authors:

Manzhu Bao (China), Frans Berkhout (The Netherlands), Sandy Cairncross (UK), Jean-Paul Ceron (France), Manmohan Kapshe (India), Robert Muir-Wood (UK), Ricardo Zapata-Marti (ECLAC / Mexico)

Contributing Authors:

Maureen Agnew (UK), Richard Black (UK), Tom Downing (UK), Stefan Gossling (Sweden), Maria-Carmen Lemos (Brazil), Karen O’Brien (Norway), Christian Pfister (Switzerland), William Solecki (USA), Coleen Vogel (South Africa)

Review Editors:

David Satterthwaite (UK), Y. Dhammika Wanasinghe (Sri Lanka)

This chapter should be cited as:

Wilbanks, T.J., P. Romero Lankao, M. Bao, F. Berkhout, S. Cairncross, J.-P. Ceron, M. Kapshe, R. Muir-Wood and R. Zapata-Marti, 2007: Industry, settlement and society. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, M.L. Parry, O.F. Canziani, J.P. Palutikof, P.J. van der Linden and C.E. Hanson, Eds., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 357-390.