The state of climate change vulnerability, impacts, and adaptation research: strengthening knowledge base and community

Journal Article · Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2010 · Climatic Change

OSTI ID:984799

Wilbanks, Thomas J ^[1]; Rosenzweig, Dr. Cynthia ^[2]

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1. ORNL
2. NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS)

It has taken about 35 years for scientists to bring the global climate change issue to the attention of the world s people and their leaders. With the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference of December 2009, it was hoped that the issue identification phase would segue at last into the solution phase. However, the outcome of COP15 shows that interdisciplinary work on impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability is still critically needed to advance the development of the solution phase.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC)
• DOE Contract Number: DE-AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 984799
• Journal Information: Climatic Change, Vol. 100, Issue 1; ISSN 0165-0009
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
CLIMATES
CLIMATIC CHANGE
KNOWLEDGE BASE
VULNERABILITY