Climate change is widely recognised as a serious threat to the world's environment. The Mediterranean basin is … considered as a unique scaled down model to assess the severity of potential climate change impacts on coastal zones. The paper … examines the regional differences in the vulnerability of Mediterranean coastal zones from existing studies and projections for …

IPCC. I argue that the IPCC has a natural monopoly, as a new entrant would have to invest time and effort over a longer … period to perhaps match the reputation, trust, goodwill, and network of the IPCC. The IPCC is a not-for-profit organization …. However, the IPCC has certainly taken up tasks outside its mandate; the IPCC has been accused of haughtiness; innovation is …

WISE project. This project aims at investigating the effects and the impacts of extreme weather events, particularly very … covers the quantitative analysis of the impacts of climate extremes on the socio-economic system in Italy and the analysis of … the perception of weather impacts through questionnaire survey to the general public. With regard to the individuals …

WISE project. This project aims at investigating the effects and the impacts of extreme weather events, particularly very … covers the quantitative analysis of the impacts of climate extremes on the socio-economic system in Italy and the analysis of …

publicly available databases for the world, Asia-Pacific, and the Philippines, the case examined in detail. The risks of these …

This paper provides an overview of the latest developments in methodologies for assessing the vulnerability of coastal … zones to climate change at regional and local scales. The focus of vulnerability assessment in coastal zones used to be on … variables that play a part in determining coastal vulnerability, as well as non-climatic developments. The paper presents a …

.The expected resultant impacts of climate change on resources, natural settings and human settings are directly related to water …

Extremwetterereignissen, die dem Klimawandel zugeschrieben werden, steigt die Relevanz von Extremwetterereignissen auch für Industrienationen … Problembewusstsein für den Klimawandel an. Konkret wird der Frage nachgegangen, ob die Einschätzung des Klimawandels als Gefährdung in … wahrgenommene Gefährdung durch den Klimawandel eher zur Unterstützung politischer Maßnahmen zum Klimaschutz führt. …