RT Report
T1 Climatic Change in the Intra-Americas Sea - Book
A1 United Nations Environment Programme, 
A1 Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, 
A2 Maul, George
K1 atmosphere
K1 climate change
K1 Caribbean region
K1 climatology
K1 coastal area
K1 coral reef
K1 environmental aspect
K1 environmental health
K1 global warming
K1 hurricane
K1 mangrove swamp
K1 marine ecosystem
K1 meteorology
K1 oceanography
K1 precipitation
K1 sea level
K1 North Atlantic Ocean
K1 South America
PB Edward Arnold
SN 0-340-58981-7
YR 1993
FD 1993
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/29289
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/29289
NO This book provides the first expert and comprehensive account of the implications that global warming and sea-level rise will have on the ecosystems and socio- economic structure in the marine and coastal regions of the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, Bahamas, Bermuda and the Northeast Coast of South America. Coverage is given to such topics as modelling future climatic change, physical process and effects, ecological effects, and socio-economic effects including the impact on human health. Climatic change in the Intra-Americas sea uniquely brings together authoritative accounts from oceanographers, meteorologists, ecologists and social scientists as part of a project covered by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO It is designed for all those sociologists, scientists, students, politicians and policy makers who increasingly need to know about the detailed effects of climatic change on people and places. The first full study of climatic change impact in the Intra-Americas Sea, the book contains broad and integrated coverage on both natural and man-made environments, and features: an unique chapter on exploratory PC-based modelling: of socio-economic impacts on climatic change.
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 17, 2026