Societal Responses to Regional Climatic Change: Forecasting by Analogy
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Section I: Background, Concepts, Overview -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Human Impact on Climate: The Evolution of an Awareness -- 3 Politics and the Air Around Us: International Policy Action on Atmospheric Pollution by Trace Gases -- 4 Grappling for a Glimpse of the Future -- 5 Statistics of Climate Change: Implications for Scenario Development -- 6 Impact Assessment by Analogy: Comparing the Impacts of the Ogallala Aquifer Depletion and CO2-Induced Climate Change -- Section II: Case Studies -- 7 Great Lakes Levels and Climate Change: Impacts, Responses, and Futures -- 8 The Rising Level of the Great Salt Lake: An Analogue of Societal Adjustment to Climate Change -- 9 Future Sea-Level Rise and Its Implications for Charleston, South Carolina -- 10 Institutional Response to Sea-Level Rise: The Case of Louisiana -- 11 Climate Variability and the Mississippi River Navigation System -- 12 Climate Variability and the Colorado River Compact: Implications for Responding to Climate Change -- 13 Climate Change and California: Past, Present, and Future Vulnerabilities -- 14 Analyzing the Risk of Drought: The Occoquan Experience -- 15 The Ogallala Aquifer and Carbon Dioxide: Are Policy Responses Applicable? -- 16 Public and Private Sector Responses to Florida Citrus Freezes -- Section III: Forecasting by Analogy -- 17 Summary.