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Accepting Climate Change Challenges: Gambling with the Future or Path-Finding for Long-Term Sustainability?

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Knowledge Systems of Societies for Adaptation and Mitigation of Impacts of Climate Change

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In recent 20 years, plenty of progress has been made in regard to climate impact and global change related research. While scientific knowledge about the unbridled process of global warming and its associated impacts has increased tremendously, societal and political responses to this challenge seems to be uncoordinated and not target driven.

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Acknowledgements

The author acknowledge the financial support of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (PROGRESS, Grant #03IS2191B) and Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (International Climate Protection Initiative). We wish to thank L. Costa, S. Kriewald and P. Pradhan for their support during the preparation of this manuscript.

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  1. Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, P.O. Box 601203, 14412, Potsdam, Germany

    J. P. Kropp

  2. Department of Geo- and Environmental Sciences, University of Potsdam, Am neuen Palais 10, Potsdam, Germany

    J. P. Kropp

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  1. , Centre for Ecological Economics and, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Dr. VKRV Rao Road, Bangalore, 560072, India

    Sunil Nautiyal

  2. , Department of Botany, University of Delhi, University Road, Delhi, 110007, India

    K.S. Rao

  3. Landscape Research, Institute of Socioeconomics, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural, Eberswalder Str 84, Müncheberg, 15374, Germany

    Harald Kaechele

  4. , Centre for Ecological Economics and Natu, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Dr. VKRV Rao Road, Nagarabhavi, Bangalore, 560072, India

    K.V. Raju

  5. , Centre for Environmental System Research, University of Kassel, Wilhelmshöher Allee 47, Kassel, 34119, Germany

    Ruediger Schaldach

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Kropp, J.P. (2013). Accepting Climate Change Challenges: Gambling with the Future or Path-Finding for Long-Term Sustainability?. In: Nautiyal, S., Rao, K., Kaechele, H., Raju, K., Schaldach, R. (eds) Knowledge Systems of Societies for Adaptation and Mitigation of Impacts of Climate Change. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36143-2_2

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