Regional Impacts

General & Multiple Regions

1. •Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change in Multiple Regions & Sectors (UNEP)
   

2. •Intergovernmental Program on Climate Change
   

3. - Regional chapters from IPCC Working Group II: “Impacts, Adaptation & Vulnerability” (2007)
   

4. -The Regional Impacts of Climate Change: An Assessment of Vulnerability (1997)
   

5. •CLARIS: A Europe-South America Network for Climate Change Assessment and Impact Studies
   

Marine

1. •Sherman, Kenneth and Gotthilf Hempel. 2009. The UNEP large marine ecosystems report: A perspective on changing conditions in the LMEs of the world's regional seas. Nairobi: United Nations Environment Programme.
   

2. -Contains regional analyses and chapter on “Accelerated warming and emergent trends in fisheries biomass yields of the world’s large marine ecosystems.”
   

Polar (link to separate webpage)

North America

1. •Wildlife responses to climate change: North American case studies
   

2. -2002: Island Press
   

3. •Global climate change and wildlife in North America
   

4. -2004: The Wildlife Society
   

Canada

1. •Climate change impacts and adaptation: A Canadian Perspective
   • 2004: Natural Resources Canada
   

Canada-U.S. transborder initiatives

1. •Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment: Climate Change Network
   

USA (link to separate webpage)

Latin America

1. •Andes Biodiversity and Ecosystem Working Group
   

2. •“Climate change in the Andes,” by Carolina Murcia, Chapter 20 in State of the Wild, 2008-09
   

Europe

    • Views from the Alps: Regional perspectives on climate change
• Edited volume, MIT Press: 1998

Asia

1. • The Greater Mekong and climate change: Biodiversity, ecosystem services and development at risk. Washington, DC: World Wildlife Fund.
   

Australia

1. •National biodiversity and climate change action plan 2004-2007
   

2. •  Protected areas: Buffering nature against climate change
   

3. -2006: WWF-Australia, WPCA/IUCN
   

4. -Strong focus on Australia
   

Africa

1. •South Africa National Biodiversity Institute: Climate Change and BioAdaptation Division
   

2. •UNEP Atlas of Our Changing Environment
   

3. - Africa
   

4. - Africa’s Lakes

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