Geography of climate change / edited by Richard Aspinall

Includes index.

Geographical perspectives on climate change / Richard Aspinall -- Beyond Adapting to climate change : embedding adaptation in responses to multiple threats and stresses / Thomas J. Wilbanks and Robert W. Kates -- Changes in annual land-surface precipitation over the twentieth and early twenty-first century / Elsa Nickl, Cort J. Willmott, Kenji Mastsuurs and Scott M. Robeson The Changing geography of U.S. water budget : twentieth-century patterns and twenty-first-century projection / C. Mark Cowell and Michael A. Urban -- The Columbian encounter and the little ice age : abrupt land use change, fire and greenhouse forcing / Robert A. Dull, Richard J. Nevel, WIlliam I. Woods, Dennis K. Bird, Shiri Avnery and William M. Denevan -- Climate change and tropical Andean glacier recession : evaluating hydrologic changes and livelihood vulnerability in the cordillera Blanca, Peru / Michael P. Bishop, Andrew B. G. Bush, Luke Copland, Urich Kamp, Levis A. Owen, Young B. Seong and John F. Shroder Jr. -- Climate-streamflow linkages in the North-central rocky mountain : implications for a changing climate / Erika K. Wise -- Adapting to climate change in Andean ecosystems : landscapes, capitals and perception shaping rural livelihood strategies and linking knowledge systems / Corinne Valdivia, Anji Seth, Jere L. Gilles, Magali Garcia, Elizabeth Jinenez, Jorge Cusicanqui, Fredy Navia and Edwin K. Wise -- Making sense of twenty-first century climate change in the altiplano : observed trends and CMIP3 projections / Anji Seth, Jeanne Thibeault, Magali Garcia and Corinne Valdivia -- Climatic shifts in the availability of contested waters : a long-term perspective from the headwaters of the north Platte river / Jacqueline J. Shinker, Bryan N. Shuman, Thomas A. Minckly and Anna K. Henderson -- Climate change, drought and Jamaican agriculture : local knowledge and the climate record / Douglas W. Gamble, Donovan Campbell, Theodore L. Allen, Devid Barker, Scott Curits, Duncan McGregor and Jeff Popke -- Netra B. Chhetri, William E. Easterling, Adam Terando and Linda Mearns -- Modeling path dependence in agricultural adaptation to climate variability and change / Joint effects of marine intrusion and climate change on the Mexican avifauna / A. Townsend Peterson, Adolfo G. Nawarro-Sigiienza and Xingong Li -- Adapting across boundaries : climate change, social learning and resilience in the U.S-Mexico border region / Margaret Wilder, Christopher A. Scott, Nicolas Pineda Pablos, Robert G. Varady, Gregg M. Garfin and Jannie McEvoy -- Climate, carbon and territory : greenhouse gas mitigation in Seattle, Washington / Jennifer L. Rice -- Potential impacts of climate change on flood-induced travel disruptions : a case study of Portland, Oregon, USA / Heejun Chang, Martin Lafrenz, Il-Won Jung, Miguel Figliozzi, Deena Platman and Cindy Pederson -- Constructing carbon market spacetime : climate change and the onset of neo-modernity / Janelle Konx-Hayes -- Climate change and the global financial crisis : a case of double exposure / Robin M. Leichenko, Karen L. O'Brien and William D. Solecki -- Integrity of the emerging global markets in greenhouse gases / Barry D. Solomon and Michael K. Heiman -- Climate change : capitalism and the challenge of transdisciplinary / Joel Wainwright -- Contested sovereignty in a changing arctic / Hannes Gerhardt, Philip E. Steinberg, Jereny Tasch, Sandra J. Fabiano and Rob Shields -- Kiavallakkiput Agviq (into the whaling cycle) : cetaceousness and climate change among the inupiat of arctic Alaska / Chie Sakakibara -- Benchmarking the war against global warming / Douglas J. Sherman, Bailiang Li, Steven M. Quiring and Engene J. Farrell -- Regional initiatives : scaling the climate response and responding to conceptions of scale / Melinda Harm Benson