TY - CHAP
T1 - Introduction
AU - Agnew, Maureen D.
AU - Goodess, Clare M.
AU - Hemming, Debbie
AU - Giannakopoulos, Christos
AU - Salem, Skander Ben
AU - Bindi, Marco
AU - Bradai, Mohamed Nejmeddine
AU - Congedi, Letizia
AU - Dibari, Camilla
AU - El-Askary, Hesham
AU - El-Fadel, Mutasem
AU - Ferrise, Roberto
AU - Grünzweig, José M.
AU - Harzallah, Ali
AU - Hattour, Abdallah
AU - Hatzaki, Maria
AU - Kanas, Dina
AU - Kostopoulou, Effie
AU - Lionello, Piero
AU - Oweis, Theib
AU - Pino, Cosimo
AU - Reale, Marco
AU - Sánchez-Arcilla, Agustín
AU - Senouci, Mohamed
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2013, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - The heterogeneous nature of the Mediterranean environment, combined with a wide diversity of socio-economic and cultural identities, make this region particularly amenable to integrated research on climate change impacts, vulnerabilities, and adaptive response. Eleven case-study locations have been strategically selected to represent three generic Mediterranean environments (urban, rural and coastal). While each case study location comprises a unique and complex set of climate-related issues, the range and scope of the case studies allows identification of common lessons and messages for the wider Mediterranean region. The aim is to perform an integrated assessment of climate impacts, vulnerability and adaptation at a regional to local scale. A risk-based ‘bottom up’ approach (based on regional stakeholder dialogue) is combined with a ‘top down’ case-study indicator assessment focused on a common conceptual and methodological framework.
AB - The heterogeneous nature of the Mediterranean environment, combined with a wide diversity of socio-economic and cultural identities, make this region particularly amenable to integrated research on climate change impacts, vulnerabilities, and adaptive response. Eleven case-study locations have been strategically selected to represent three generic Mediterranean environments (urban, rural and coastal). While each case study location comprises a unique and complex set of climate-related issues, the range and scope of the case studies allows identification of common lessons and messages for the wider Mediterranean region. The aim is to perform an integrated assessment of climate impacts, vulnerability and adaptation at a regional to local scale. A risk-based ‘bottom up’ approach (based on regional stakeholder dialogue) is combined with a ‘top down’ case-study indicator assessment focused on a common conceptual and methodological framework.
KW - Climate change
KW - Integrated assessment
KW - Mediterranean
KW - Risk
KW - Vulnerability
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85052380646&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-94-007-5769-1_1
DO - 10.1007/978-94-007-5769-1_1
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AN - SCOPUS:85052380646
T3 - Advances in Global Change Research
SP - 3
EP - 21
BT - Advances in Global Change Research
PB - Springer International Publishing
ER -