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	IPCC Fourth Assessment Report: Climate Change 2007

Climate Change 2007: Working Group II: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

Chapter 20: Perspectives on Climate Change and Sustainability

20.1 Introduction – setting the context

20.2 A synthesis of new knowledge relating to impacts and adaptation

20.3 Impacts and adaptation in the context of multiple stresses

20.3.1 A catalogue of multiple stresses

20.3.2 Factors that support sustainable development

20.3.3 Two-way causality between sustainable development and adaptive capacity

20.4 Implications for environmental quality

20.5 Implications for risk, hazard and disaster management

20.6 Global and aggregate impacts

20.6.1 History and present state of aggregate impact estimates

20.6.2 Spatially-explicit methods: global impacts of climate change

20.7 Implications for regional, sub-regional, local and sectoral development; access to resources and technology; equity

20.7.1 Millennium Development Goals – a 2015 time slice

20.7.2 Sectoral and regional implications

20.7.3 The complementarity roles of mitigation and enhanced adaptive capacity

20.8 Opportunities, co-benefits and challenges for adaptation

20.8.1 Challenges and opportunities for mainstreaming adaptation into national, regional and local development processes

20.8.2 Participatory processes in research and practice

20.8.3 Bringing climate-change adaptation and development communities together to promote sustainable development

20.9 Uncertainties, unknowns and priorities for research

References

Coordinating Lead Authors:

Gary W. Yohe (USA), Rodel D. Lasco (Philippines)

Lead Authors:

Qazi K. Ahmad (Bangladesh), Nigel Arnell (UK), Stewart J. Cohen (Canada), Chris Hope (UK), Anthony C. Janetos (USA), Rosa T. Perez (Philippines)

Contributing Authors:

Antoinette Brenkert (USA), Virginia Burkett (USA), Kristie L. Ebi (USA), Elizabeth L. Malone (USA), Bettina Menne (WHO Regional Office for Europe/Germany), Anthony Nyong (Nigeria), Ferenc L. Toth (Hungary), Gianna M. Palmer (USA)

Review Editors:

Robert Kates (USA), Mohamed Salih (Sudan), John Stone (Canada)

This chapter should be cited as:

Yohe, G.W., R.D. Lasco, Q.K. Ahmad, N.W. Arnell, S.J. Cohen, C. Hope, A.C. Janetos and R.T. Perez, 2007: Perspectives on climate change and sustainability. 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, 811-841.