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1 online resource (xxi, 180 pages) : color illustrations, color maps |
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World Bank e-Library
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1. A Framework for Developing Adaptation Plans -- 2. How ECA's Climate Has Changed and Is Likely to Change Further -- 3. Human Health: The Most Basic Vulnerability -- 4. Climate Change Will Make Water and Land Management More Complex -- 5. The Unbuilt Environment: Agriculture and Forestry -- 6. The Built Environment: Cities, Water Systems, Energy, and Transport -- 7. Protection and Preparation: Disaster Risk Management and Weather Forecasting |
| Summary |
The climate is changing and many Eastern European and Former Soviet Union countries are vulnerable to the consequences. Many countries are facing warmer temperatures, a changing hydrology and more extremes, droughts, floods, heat waves, windstorms, and forest fires. Already the frequency and cost of natural disasters have risen dramatically in the region. And the concentration of greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere guarantees that similar or greater changes are yet to come, even if the world completely stopped emitting carbon dioxide. Now, and at least for the near future, ECA vulnerabi |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-166) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Climatic changes -- Government policy -- Europe, Eastern
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Climatic changes -- Government policy -- Russia (Federation)
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Environmental policy -- Europe, Eastern
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Environmental policy -- Russia (Federation)
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SCIENCE -- Environmental Science (see also Chemistry -- Environmental)
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy.
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Climatic changes -- Government policy
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Environmental policy
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Klimatförändringar -- Östeuropa.
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Klimatförändringar -- Ryssland.
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Miljöpolitik -- Östeuropa.
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Miljöpolitik: Ryssland.
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Eastern Europe
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Russia (Federation)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fay, Marianne
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Block, Rachel I
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Ebinger, Jane O
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| LC no. |
2009032583 |
| ISBN |
9780821381328 |
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0821381326 |
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0821381318 |
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9780821381311 |
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1282502107 |
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9781282502109 |
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661250210X |
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9786612502101 |
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