Document Abstract
Published:
1 May 2008
Climate change and the fate of the Amazon.
Social and ecological impacts of climate change on the Amazon
This is a compilation of twenty seven articles focusing on the interactions, impacts and effects of the changing climate on the Amazon region. Each article examines a specific area, providing a multidisciplinary analysis of climate change impacts. Areas discussed include:
- perspectives on ecosystems and social sciences
- interactions between land use, forests and climate
- global warming, drought, deforestation and the precipitation index
- interactions between rainfall, deforestation and fires
- paying the people for environmental services in Amazonia
- environmental governance and policy-making networks
- addressing human dimensions of environmental change
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Glossary
What we mean by...
- global climate
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- climate change (Globale Erwärmung)
- Climate change is a lasting change in weather patterns over long periods of time. It can be a natural phenomena and and has occurred on Earth even before people inhabited it. Quite different is a current situation that is also referred to as climate change, anthropogenic climate change, or global warming. This change in weather patterns appears to be happening much faster and is linked to human activity contributing to the greenhouse effect.
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