Virginia Burkett

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Coastal Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerabilities (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

Developed to inform the 2013 National Climate Assessment, this report examines the known effects and relationships of climate change variables on the coasts of the US. It describes the impacts on natural and human systems, including several major sectors of the US economy, and covers the progress and challenges to planning and implementing adaptation options.

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Autor

Virginia Burkett is the Chief Scientist for Climate and Land Use Change at the U.S. Geological Survey. She was formerly Chief of the Forest Ecology Branch at the USGS National Wetlands Research Center in Lafayette, Louisiana. Burkett has also served as Secretary/Director of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, Acting Director of the Louisiana Coastal Zone Management Program, and Assistant Director of the Louisiana Geological Survey. She has published extensively on the topics of global change and low-lying coastal zones. She has served as a Lead Author of the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third and Fourth Assessment Reports (2001 and 2007), the IPCC Technical Paper on Water (2008), and the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report that is scheduled for completion in 2014. She was a lead author of the 2001 and 2009 National Assessments of climate change impacts produced by the United States Global Change Research Program. She has co-authored reports for The Wildlife Society (2004), the United Nations Convention on Biodiversity (2005), the Everglades Task Force (2007), and the U.S. Department of Transportation (2008) that address climate change impacts and potential adaptation strategies. Burkett has been appointed to over 40 Commissions, Committees, Science Panels and Boards during her career. She serves on the Editorial Boards of the journals Ethics in Science and Environmental Policy and Regional Environmental Change. Burkett received her doctoral degree in forestry from Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas in 1996.

Margaret Davidson, the director of the NOAA Coastal Services Center, is no stranger to the coast or its many challenges. Before joining NOAA, Margaret A. Davidson was executive director of the South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium from 1983 to 1995. She also served as special counsel and assistant attorney general for the Louisiana Department of Justice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Island Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781610914604
• Artikelnr.: 39077982