Adapting to Climate Change: An International Perspective

1 Overview.- Rapporteur's Statement.- An Overview of Adaptation to Climate Change.- Past Changes in Climate and Societal Adaptations.- Assessing Climate Change Adaptations: The IPCC Guidelines.- Adapting to Climate Variations in Developing Regions: A Planning Framework.- The Growth of Adaptation Capacity: Practice and Policy.- Using a Decision Matrix to Assess Climate Change Options.- The Potential Costs of Climate Change Adaptation.- Malawi: How Climate Change Adaptation Options Fit within the UNFCCC National Communication and National Development Plans.- 2 Agriculture.- Rapporteur's Statement.- Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change in Egypt.- Adaptive Measures for Zimbabwe's Agricultural Sector.- Model-Based Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment for Wheat Yields in Kazakhstan.- The Impact of Climate Change on Spring Wheat Yield in Mongolia and Its Adaptability.- Some Adaptations of the Tea Plant to Dry Environments.- Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture and Global Food Production: Options for Adaptive Strategies.- 3 Water Resources.- Rapporteur's Statement.- Water Resources Adaptation Strategy in an Uncertain Environment.- Anthropogenic Climate Change and Reduction of Water Resources: Adaptation Issues Related to the Economy in Kazakhstan.- Adaptation of Hydropower Generation in Costa Rica and Panama to Climate Change.- Managing Water Resources for Climate Change Adaptation.- Potential Effects of Sea-Level Rise in the Pearl River Delta Area: Preliminary Study Results and a Comprehensive Adaptation Strategy.- 4 Coastal Resources.- Rapporteur's Statement.- Sea-Level Rise Along the Lima Coastal Zone, Perú, as a Result of Global Warming: Environmental Impacts and Mitigation Measures.- Response Strategies and Adaptive Measures to Potential Sea-Level Rise in The Gambia.- Climate Change Adaptation Strategies: A Challenge for Small Island Nations.- Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment of Climate Change and Sea-Level Rise in the Coastal Zone: A Perspective from the Netherlands and Bangladesh.- Adaptation to Climate Change in the Coastal Resources Sector of Bangladesh: Some Issues and Problems.- 5 Ecosystems and Forests.- Rapporteur's Statement.- A Study of Climate Change Impacts on the Forests of Venezuela.- Global Climate Change Adaptation: Examples from Russian Boreal Forests.- Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessments of Forest Vegetation in Bulgaria.- Biodiversity and Wildlife: Adaptation to Climate Change.- 6 Fisheries.- Rapporteur's Statement.- Forecasting by Analogy: Local Responses to Global Climate Change.- Anticipated Effects of Climate Change on Commercial Pelagic and Artisanal Coastal Fisheries in the Federated States of Micronesia.- 7 Human Settlements.- Rapporteur's Statement.- Permafrost and Global Warming: Strategies of Adaptation.- Health Adaptations to Climate Change: Need for Far-Sighted, Integrated Approaches.