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Chapter9
TheImpactsofClimateChange
onEcosystemServicesandResulting
LossesandDamages toPeople
andSociety
KeesvanderGeest,AlexdeSherbinin,StefanKienberger,ZintaZommers,
AshaSitati,ErinRobertsandRachelJames
Abstract So far, studies of Loss andDamage from climate change have focused
primarilyonhumansystemsandtendedtooverlookthemediatingroleofecosystems
and the services ecosystemsprovide to society.This is a significant knowledgegap
because lossesanddamages tohumansystemsoften result frompermanentor tem-
porarydisturbancestoecosystemsservicescausedbyclimaticstressors.Thischapter
triestoadvanceunderstandingoftheimpactsofclimaticstressorsonecosystemsand
K.vanderGeest (B)
UnitedNationsUniversity Institute forEnvironmentandHumanSecurity (UNU-EHS),
Bonn,Germany
e-mail: geest@ehs.unu.edu
A.deSherbinin
Center for InternationalEarthScience InformationNetwork (CIESIN),
TheEarth InstituteatColumbiaUniversity,NewYork,USA
S.Kienberger
DepartmentofGeoinformatics–Z-GIS,UniversityofSalzburg,Salzburg,Austria
Z.Zommers
MercyCorps,London,UK
A.Sitati
UniversityCollegeLondon,London,UK
E.Roberts
King’sCollege,London,UK
R.James
DepartmentofOceanography,EnvironmentalChangeInstitute,UniversityofOxford,Oxford,UK
R.James
UniversityofCapeTown,CapeTown,SouthAfrica
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Loss and Damage from Climate Change
Concepts, Methods and Policy Options
- Titel
- Loss and Damage from Climate Change
- Untertitel
- Concepts, Methods and Policy Options
- Autoren
- Reinhard Mechler
- Laurens M. Bouwer
- Thomas Schinko
- Swenja Surminski
- JoAnne Linnerooth-Bayer
- Verlag
- Springer Open
- Datum
- 2019
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-319-72026-5
- Abmessungen
- 16.0 x 24.0 cm
- Seiten
- 580
- Schlagwörter
- Environment, Climate change, Environmental law, Environmental policy, Risk management
- Kategorien
- International
- Naturwissenschaften Umwelt und Klima