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IPCC Fourth Assessment Report: Climate Change 2007
Climate Change 2007: Working Group II: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
Contents15

Chapter 15: Polar Regions (Arctic and Antarctic)

Executive summary

15.1 Introduction

15.1.1 Summary of knowledge assessed in the TAR

15.2 Current sensitivity/vulnerability

15.2.1 Climate, environment and socio-economic state

15.2.2 Vulnerability and adaptive capacity

15.3 Assumptions about future trends

15.3.1 Key regional impacts with importance to the global system

15.3.2 Projected atmospheric changes

15.3.3 Projected changes in the oceans

15.3.4 Projected changes on land

15.4 Key future impacts and vulnerabilities

15.4.1 Freshwater systems and their management

15.4.2 Terrestrial ecosystems and their services

15.4.3 Marine ecosystems and their services in the Arctic

15.4.4 Marine ecosystems and their services in the Antarctic

15.4.5 Human health and well-being

15.4.6 Coastal zone and small islands

15.5 Adaptation: practices, options and constraints

15.6 Case studies

15.6.1 Case study: traditional knowledge for adaptation

15.6.2 Case study: Arctic megadeltas

15.6.3 Case study: Antarctic Peninsula – rapid warming in a pristine environment

15.7 Conclusions: implications for sustainable development

15.7.1 Economic activity, infrastructure and sustainability in the Arctic

15.7.2 Economic activity and sustainability in the Antarctic

15.8 Key uncertainties and research priorities

References

Coordinating Lead Authors:

Oleg A. Anisimov (Russia), David G. Vaughan (UK)

Lead Authors:

Terry Callaghan (Sweden/UK), Christopher Furgal (Canada), Harvey Marchant (Australia), Terry D. Prowse (Canada), Hjalmar Vilhjálmsson (Iceland), John E. Walsh (USA)

Contributing Authors:

Torben R. Christensen (Sweden), Donald L. Forbes (Canada), Frederick E. Nelson (USA), Mark Nuttall (Canada/UK), James D. Reist (Canada), George A. Rose (Canada), Jef Vandenberghe (The Netherlands), Fred J. Wrona (Canada)

Review Editors:

Roger Barry (USA), Robert Jefferies (Canada), John Stone (Canada)

This chapter should be cited as:

Anisimov, O.A., D.G. Vaughan, T.V. Callaghan, C. Furgal, H. Marchant, T.D. Prowse, H. Vilhjálmsson and J.E. Walsh, 2007: Polar regions (Arctic and Antarctic). 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, 653-685.