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3. Framing Climate Change Implications for Infrastructures and Urban Systems

Authors : Dr. Thomas J. Wilbanks, Dr. Steven Fernandez

Published in: Climate Change and Infrastructure, Urban Systems, and Vulnerabilities

Publisher: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics

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For more than half a century, climate change impact and vulnerability assessments have tended to focus on issues for natural (and human-managed natural) environments, where changes in climate parameters have direct effects on such systems as ecology and hydrology. Because human-built systems are so often designed in part to buffer human well-being from natural-environmental constraints, it was implicitly assumed that implications of climate change for human infrastructures could be treated as a lesser concern.

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Title: Framing Climate Change Implications for Infrastructures and Urban Systems
Authors: Dr. Thomas J. Wilbanks
Dr. Steven Fernandez
Publisher: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics
Book: Climate Change and Infrastructure, Urban Systems, and Vulnerabilities
Print ISBN: 978-1-59726-469-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-61091-556-4

Copyright Year: 2014
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-556-4_3

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