Climate Change 2014 – Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability: Part A: Global and Sectoral Aspects: Volume 1, Global and Sectoral Aspects
Working Group II Contribution to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report

This latest Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC will again form the standard reference for all those concerned with climate change and its consequences.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (Author)

9781107058071, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 29 December 2014

1140 pages, 141 colour illus. 100 tables
28.6 x 22 x 4.5 cm, 3.3 kg

This latest Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will again form the standard reference for all those concerned with climate change and its consequences, including students, researchers and policy makers in environmental science, meteorology, climatology, biology, ecology, atmospheric chemistry and environmental policy.

Summary for policymakers
Technical summary
1. Point of departure
2. Decision-making
3. Freshwater systems
4. Ecosystems
5. Coastal systems
6. Ocean systems
7. Food
8. Urban
9. Rural
10. Economic sectors
11. Human health
12. Human security
13. Livelihoods
14. Adaptation needs
15. Adaptation planning
16. Adaptation limits
17. Economics adaptation
18. Detection attribution
19. Key vulnerabilities
20. Sustainable development.

Subject Areas: Pollution & threats to the environment [RNP], Applied ecology [RNC], Environmentalist, conservationist & Green organizations [RNB], The environment [RN], Meteorology & climatology [RBP], Earth sciences [RB], Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning [R], International environmental law [LBBP], Environmental economics [KCN], Politics & government [JP]