Introduction
1. Geographical Perspectives on Climate Change, Richard Aspinall
Articles
2. Beyond Adapting to Climate Change: Embedding Adaptation in Responses to Multiple Threats and Stresses, Thomas J. Wilbanks and Robert W. Kates
3. Changes in Annual Land-Surface Precipitation Over the Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century, Elsa Nickl, Cort J. Willmott, Kenji Matsuura, and Scott M. Robeson
4. The Changing Geography of the U.S. Water Budget: Twentieth-Century Patterns and Twenty-First-Century Projections, C. Mark Cowell and Michael A. Urban
5. The Columbian Encounter and the Little Ice Age: Abrupt Land Use Change, Fire, and Greenhouse Forcing, Robert A. Dull, Richard J. Nevle, William I. Woods, Dennis K. Bird, Shiri Avnery, and William M. Denevan
6. Climate Change and Mountain Topographic Evolution in the Central Karakoram, Pakistan, Michael P. Bishop, Andrew B. G. Bush, Luke Copland, Ulrich Kamp, Lewis A. Owen, Yeong B. Seong, and John F. Shroder, Jr.
7. Climate Change and Tropical Andean Glacier Recession: Evaluating Hydrologic Changes and Livelihood Vulnerability in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru, Bryan G. Mark, Jeffrey Bury, Jeffrey M. McKenzie, Adam French, and Michel Baraer
8. Climate–Streamflow Linkages in the North-Central Rocky Mountains: Implications for a Changing Climate, Erika K. Wise
9. Adapting to Climate Change in Andean Ecosystems: Landscapes, Capitals, and Perceptions Shaping Rural Livelihood Strategies and Linking Knowledge Systems, Corinne Valdivia, Anji Seth, Jere L. Gilles, Magali García, Elizabeth Jiménez, Jorge Cusicanqui, Fredy Navia, and Edwin Yucra
10. Making Sense of Twenty-First-Century Climate Change in the Altiplano: Observed Trends and CMIP3 Projections, Anji Seth, Jeanne Thibeault, Magali Garcia, and Corinne Valdivia
11. Parameterization of Urban Characteristics for Global Climate Modeling, Trisha L. Jackson, Johannes J. Feddema, Keith W. Oleson, Gordon B. Bonan, and John T. Bauer
12. Climatic Shifts in the Availability of Contested Waters: A Long-Term Perspective from the Headwaters of the North Platte River, Jacqueline J. Shinker, Bryan N. Shuman, Thomas A. Minckley, and Anna K. Henderson
13. Climate Change, Drought, and Jamaican Agriculture: Local Knowledge and the Climate Record, Douglas W. Gamble, Donovan Campbell, Theodore L. Allen, David Barker, Scott Curtis, Duncan McGregor, and Jeff Popke
14. Modeling Path Dependence in Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change, Netra B. Chhetri, William E. Easterling, Adam Terando, and Linda Mearns
15. Joint Effects of Marine Intrusion and Climate Change on the Mexican Avifauna, A. Townsend Peterson, Adolfo G. Navarro-Sigüenza, and Xingong Li
16. Adapting Across Boundaries: Climate Change, Social Learning, and Resilience in the U.S.–Mexico Border Region, Margaret Wilder, Christopher A. Scott, Nicolás Pineda Pablos, Robert G. Varady, Gregg M. Garfin, and Jamie McEvoy
17. Climate, Carbon, and Territory: Greenhouse Gas Mitigation in Seattle, Washington, Jennifer L. Rice
18. Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Flood-Induced Travel Disruptions: A Case Study of Portland, Oregon, USA, Heejun Chang, Martin Lafrenz, Il-Won Jung, Miguel Figliozzi, Deena Platman, and Cindy Pederson
19. Constructing Carbon Market Spacetime: Climate Change and the Onset of Neo-Modernity, Janelle Knox-Hayes
20. Climate Change and the Global Financial Crisis: A Case of Double Exposure, Robin M. Leichenko, Karen L. O’Brien, and William D. Solecki
21. Integrity of the Emerging Global Markets in Greenhouse Gases, Barry D. Solomon and Michael K. Heiman
22. Climate Change, Capitalism, and the Challenge of Transdisciplinarity, Joel Wainwright
23. Contested Sovereignty in a Changing Arctic, Hannes Gerhardt, Philip E. Steinberg, Jeremy Tasch, Sandra J. Fabiano, and Rob Shields
24. Kiavallakkikput Agviq (Into the Whaling Cycle): Cetaceousness and Climate Change Among the Iñupiat of Arctic Alaska, Chie Sakakibara
25. Benchmarking the War Against Global Warming, Douglas J. Sherman, Bailiang Li, Steven M. Quiring, and Eugene J. Farrell
26. Regional Initiatives: Scaling the Climate Response and Responding to Conceptions of Scale, Melinda Harm Benson
Biography
Richard Aspinall is a geographer with research interests in coupled human-environmental systems, especially in land use, environmental change, and ecosystem services, and in GIS. From 2006-2011 he was Director of the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute in Aberdeen, Scotland, an interdisciplinary institute addressing economic, social and environmental aspects of sustainability.
