Sheila Blum, Lou Butler, Karen Clemens, Marcella Jansen, Susan Norbert Psuty provided overall guidance to theĪuthors of eleven country-specific papers. Many people helped in the compilation of this report. Held in Perth, Australia addressed the other half of the world. The MiamiĬonference focused on the implications of sea level rise for Western Africa, theĪmericas, the Mediterranean Basin, and the rest of Europe a second conference Management Subgroup of the IPCC's Response Strategies Working Group. In Miami from November 27 to December 1 on the under the auspices of the Coastal This report presents the findings of a conference held (IPCC), and directed it to assess the science, impacts, and possible responses Meteorological Organization created the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change In November 1988, the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Precipitation patterns, and storm severity could also have important impacts on Human activities are expected to warm the Earth by a mechanism commonly knownĪs the "greenhouse effect." Such a warming could raise the level of the oceansĪnd thereby inundate low-lying areas, erode beaches, exacerbate coastal flooding,Īnd increase the salinity of estuaries and aquifers. Increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide and other gases released by Represent official views of any of the sponsoring agencies or the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate The opinions expressed herein are solely those of the authors and unless noted otherwise do not necessarily National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration REPORT OF THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGEįROM THE MIAMI CONFERENCE-ON ADAPTIVE RESPONSES TO VOLUME 1: ADAPTIVE RESPONSES AND THEIR'ECONOMIC,ĮNVIRONMENTAL, AND INSTITUTIONAL IMPLICATIONS Western Africa, the Ameri-Ĭas, the Mediterranean basin, and the rest of Europeġ. Mental, and institutional implications-vol. Adaptive responses and their economic, environ. Sponsored by the US Environmental Protection Agency and others.Ĭontents: vol. Papers presented at workshop held in Nfiami, Fla, Nov 27-Dec 1, 1989, Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Pubikadon DataĬhanging Climate and the Coast / edited by James G. Report to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changeįrom the Miami Conference on Adaptive Reponses Volume 1: Adaptive Responses and their Economic,Įnvironmental, and Institutional Implications Programme Organization Agency, National Oceanic and Government Printing Office, United Nations World United States Army Corps of May 1990Įnvironment Meteorological Engineers, Environmental Protection Changing climate and the coast report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change from the Miami Conference on Adaptive Responses to Sea Level Rise and Other Impacts of Global Climate Change
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