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Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
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Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

by Robert G. Watts
March 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
520 pages
18h 5m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
131Future Socio-Economics, Energy, Land Use, and Radiative Forcing
proxy for challenges to mitigation and the per capita GDP and the percent-
age of unmanaged land use as proxies for challenges to adaptation.*
Kriegler et al. (2011) and CWT (2011) dene challenges to adaptation in
terms of a xed climate change and challenges to mitigation in terms of a
xed degree of mitigation. In general, the challenges to adaptation become
greater if exposure and sensitivity to climate change are higher and if adap-
tive capacity is lower. By contrast, the challenges to emissions mitigation are
higher if the mitigation required to achieve any given radiativ ...
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