Assessing surprises and nonlinearities in greenhouse warming : proceedings of an interdisciplinary workshop
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Assessing surprises and nonlinearities in greenhouse warming : proceedings of an interdisciplinary workshop
Resources for the Future, 1993
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Researchers examine the existing state of knowledge regarding surprises (effects that are not natural extensions of existing trends) and nonlinearities (responses disproportionate to changes in stimuli that may threaten adaptive capacities) in natural and socioeconomic systems confronted with human-induced climatic change.
Table of Contents
1. Nonlinearities and Surprises in Climate Change: An Introduction and Overview
Joel Darmstadter and Michael A. Toman
2. Facts and Uncertainties of Climate Change
Norman J. Rosenberg
3. Nonlinearities and Surprises in the Links of Farming to Climate or Weather
Paul E. Waggoner
4. What Are Nonlinear Responses at the Biome Level?
James S. Clark and Chantal D. Reid
5. The Importance of Nonlinearities in Global Warming Damage Costs
Stephen C. Peck and Thomas J. Teisberg
6. Sorting Out Facts and Uncertainties in Economic Response to the Physical Effects of Global Climate Change
Gary W. Yohe
7. Assessing Climate Change Risks: Valuation of Effects
Anthony C. Fisher and W. Michael Hanemann
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