Climate change in the Midwest : impacts, risks, vulnerability, and adaptation, edited by S.C. Pryor

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Climate change in the Midwest : impacts, risks, vulnerability, and adaptation, edited by S.C. Pryor

Title remainder

impacts, risks, vulnerability, and adaptation

Statement of responsibility

edited by S.C. Pryor

Instantiates

• Climate change in the Midwest : impacts, risks, vulnerability, and adaptation

Publication

• Bloomington, Indiana University Press, c2013

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

Climate Change Impacts, Risks, Vulnerability and Adaptation: An Introduction -- The Midwestern USA: Socio-Economic Context and Physical Climate -- Vulnerability and Adaptability of Agricultural Systems in the Southeast USA to -- Climate Variability and Climate Change -- Uncertainty and Hysteresis in Adapting to Global Climate Change -- Climate - Agriculture Vulnerability Assessment for the Midwestern United States -- Potential Future Impacts of Climate on Row Crop Production in the Great Lakes Region -- Vulnerability of Soil Carbon Reservoirs in the Midwest to Climate Change -- Michigan's Tart Cherry Industry: Vulnerability to Climate Variability and Change -- Climate Change Vulnerability and Impacts on Human Health -- Intra-Urban Variations in Vulnerability Associated with Extreme Heat Events in Relationship to a Changing Climate -- Historical and Projected Changes in Human Heat Stress in the Midwestern USA -- Vulnerability of the Electricity and Water Sectors to Climate Change in the Midwest -- The Drought Risk Management Paradigm in the Context of Climate Change -- Local Adaptation to Changing Flood Vulnerability in the Midwest -- The Response of Great Lakes Water Levels and Potential Impacts of Future Climate Scenarios -- Vulnerability of the Energy System to Extreme Wind Speeds and Icing -- Climate Change Impacts, Risks, Vulnerability and Adaptation in the Midwestern United States: What Next?

Control code

ocn777602267

Dimensions

27 cm.

Extent

xvi, 266 p., [64] p. of plates

Isbn

9780253006820

Isbn Type

(cloth : alk. paper)

Lccn

2012017798

Other physical details

col. ill., maps

Record ID

u101996

System control number

• (Sirsi) i9780253006820
• (OCoLC)777602267