Climate Change in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands

✍ Scribed by Jeremy I. Gilbert

Publisher: Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 172
Series: Climate Change and its Causes, Effects and Prediction
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This book identifies and summarizes the latest research related to the effects of climate change in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. Impacts such as sea-level rise, water supply and demand, agricultural shifts, ecological disruptions and species extinctions, as well as infrastructures at risk from extreme weather events and disease patterns are discussed.

✦ Subjects

Climatic changes -- Southeast Asia. ; Climatic changes -- Islands of the Pacific. ; Southeast Asia -- Environmental conditions. ; Islands of the Pacific -- Environmental conditions.; HIS053000; SCI026000; SCI092000

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