Keynote Presentations
from the 2nd
AVEC
International
Summer School, Peyresq, 18-30 September 2005
Speaker: Rik Leemans
rik.leemans<at>wur.nl
Environmental Systems Analysis Group, Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
Title of the talk:
Integrating vulnerability indicators from natural and social science (pdf: 6MB)
Summary of the talk by Thomas Dirnböck: Students´
summary (pdf)
Recommended background literature on this presentation:
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M, Prince SD, Xue Y (2002) The
interplay between international and local processes affecting desertification
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- Leemans R, Eickhout B (2003) Analysing
changes in ecosystems for different levels of climate change ENV/EPOC/GSP/(2003)5/FINAL
1-26
- Malcolm JR, Liu C, Miller LB, Allnutt T, Hansen L (2002) Global
warming and species loss in globally significant terrestrial ecosystems WWF-World
Wide Fund for Nature 1-39
- Sala OE, Chapin SF III, Armesto JJ, Berlow E, Bloomfield J, Dirzo R, Huber-Sanwald
E, Huenneke LF, Jackson RB, Kinzig A, Leemans R, Lodge DM, Mooney HA, Oesterheld
M,LeRoy Poff N, Sykes MT, Walker BH, Walker M, Wall DH (2000)
Global biodiversity scenarios for the year 2100 Science 287:1770-1774, doi:10.1126/science.287.5459.1770
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L, Neumann C, Renn O, Schulze E-D, Tilzer M, Velsinger P, Zimmermann H (2001)
World in transition - Conservation and sustainable use of the biosphere. German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) Earthscan
Publications Ltd, London, 451 pp (pdf: 7 MB)
- Watson RT, Suaréz A, Dokken DJ, Gitay H (2002)
Climate change and biodiversity. IPCC Technical Paper V, Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change, ISBN: 92-9169-104-7
- Human
vulnerability to environmental change GEO Chapter 3:301-317
- Living
planet report 2002 WWF-World
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