CR SPECIAL 4

Climate Research Vol. 9, Nos. 1-2 (1997)

Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change in Latin America

 

Publication date: December 29, 1997

Edited by Cecilia Ramos-Mañé


This CR Special Issue examines the problems that Latin America is facing and will face under conditions of climate change and considers ways in which these problems are being addressed and can be alleviated in the future.


 

AGRONOMIC RESOURCES

 

Baethgen WE

Vulnerability of the agricultural sector of Latin America to climate change

CR 9:1-7

 

Chiara JP, Cruz G

Preliminary results from the implementation of the SPUR2 model in Uruguay

CR 9:9-15

 

Conde C, Liverman D, Flores M, Ferrer R, Araújo R, Betancourt E, Villarreal G, Gay C

Vulnerability of rainfed maize crops in Mexico to climate change

CR 9:17-23

 

Díaz RA, Magrin GO, Travasso MI, Rodríguez RO

Climate change and its impact on the properties of agricultural soils in the Argentinean Rolling Pampas

CR 9:25-30

 

Magrin GO, Travasso MI, Díaz RA, Rodríguez RO

Vulnerability of the agricultural systems of Argentina to climate change

CR 9:31-36

 

Panario D, Bidegain M

Potential effects of climate change on the evolution of grasslands in Uruguay

CR 9:37-40

 

Víctora C, Kacevas A, Fiori H

Soil vulnerability in Uruguay: potential effects of an increase in erosive rainfall on soil loss

CR 9:41-46

 

COASTAL RESOURCES

 

Bijlsma L

Climate change and the management of coastal resources

CR 9:47-56

 

de Lourdes Olivo M

Assessment of the vulnerability of Venezuela to sea-level rise

CR 9:57-65

 

Panario D, Piñeiro G

Vulnerability of oceanic dune systems under wind pattern change scenarios in Uruguay

CR 9:67-72

 

Saizar A

Assessment of impacts of a potential sea-level rise on the coast of Montevideo, Uruguay

CR 9:73-79

 

Teixeira L, Lorenzo E

Sensitivity of storm waves in Montevideo (Uruguay) to a hypothetical climate change

CR 9:81-85

 

FOREST RESOURCES

 

Villers-Ruiz L, Trejo-Vázquez I

Assessment of the vulnerability of forest ecosystems to climate change in Mexico

CR 9:87-93

 

GENERAL

 

González LE, da Silveira P

The people's attitudes towards global environmental phenomena: a case study

CR 9:95-100

 

SCENARIOS

 

Hofstadter R, Bidegain M

Performance of general circulation models in southeastern South America

CR 9:101-105

 

Magaña V, Conde C, Sánchez O, Gay C

Assessment of current and future regional climate change scenarios for Mexico

CR 9:107-114

 

Rada OP, Crespo SR, Miranda FT

Analysis of climate change scenarios for Bolivia

CR 9:115-120

 

WATER RESOURCES

 

Carril AF, Doyle ME, Barros VR, Núñez MN

Impacts of climate change on the oases of the Argentinean cordillera

CR 9:121-129

 

Espinosa D, Méndez A, Madrid I, Rivera R

Assessment of climate change impacts on the water resources of Panama: the case of the La Villa, Chiriquí and Chagres river basins

CR 9:131-137

 

Mendoza VM, Villanueva EE, Adem J

Vulnerability of basins and watersheds in Mexico to global climate change

CR 9:139-145

 

Yates DN

Climate change impacts on the hydrologic resources of South America: an annual, continental scale assessment

CR 9:147-155

 


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