Coordinating Lead Authors:
Stephen H. Schneider (USA), Serguei Semenov (Russia), Anand Patwardhan (India)
Lead Authors:
Ian Burton (Canada), Chris H.D. Magadza (Zimbabwe), Michael Oppenheimer (USA), A. Barrie Pittock (Australia), Atiq Rahman (Bangladesh), Joel B. Smith (USA), Avelino Suarez (Cuba), Farhana Yamin (UK)
Contributing Authors:
Jan Corfee-Morlot (France), Adam Finkel (USA), Hans-Martin Füssel (Germany), Klaus Keller (Germany), Dena MacMynowski (USA), Michael D. Mastrandrea (USA), Alexander Todorov (Bulgaria)
Review Editors:
Raman Sukumar (India), Jean-Pascal van Ypersele (Belgium), John Zillman (Australia)
This chapter should be cited as:
Schneider, S.H., S. Semenov, A. Patwardhan, I. Burton, C.H.D. Magadza, M. Oppenheimer, A.B. Pittock, A. Rahman, J.B. Smith, A. Suarez and F. Yamin, 2007: Assessing key vulnerabilities and the risk from climate change. 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, 779-810.