Overview
- Essential guidance for decision-makers seeking to better understand how climate variability and change impact the US coasts and its communities
- Rich in science and case studies, this report allows decision-and policymakers to prepare for climate change
- The definitive input report on climate change in the US coastal region for the 2013 National Climate Assessment
- Critical state of the art information from a broad range of climate change experts in academia, private industry, state and local governments, NGOs, professional societies, and impacted communities
Part of the book series: NCA Regional Input Reports (NCARIR)
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Virginia Burkett is the Chief Scientist for Climate and Land Use Change at the U.S. Geological Survey. She was formerly Chief of the Forest Ecology Branch at the USGS National Wetlands Research Center in Lafayette, Louisiana. Burkett has also served as Secretary/Director of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, Acting Director of the Louisiana Coastal Zone Management Program, and Assistant Director of the Louisiana Geological Survey. She has published extensively on the topics of global change and low-lying coastal zones. She has served as a Lead Author of the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third and Fourth Assessment Reports (2001 and 2007), the IPCC Technical Paper on Water (2008), and the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report that is scheduled for completion in 2014. She was a lead author of the 2001 and 2009 National Assessments of climate change impacts produced by the United States Global Change Research Program. She has co-authoredreports for The Wildlife Society (2004), the United Nations Convention on Biodiversity (2005), the Everglades Task Force (2007), and the U.S. Department of Transportation (2008) that address climate change impacts and potential adaptation strategies. Burkett has been appointed to over 40 Commissions, Committees, Science Panels and Boards during her career. She serves on the Editorial Boards of the journals Ethics in Science and Environmental Policy and Regional Environmental Change. Burkett received her doctoral degree in forestry from Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas in 1996.
Margaret Davidson, the director of the NOAA Coastal Services Center, is no stranger to the coast or its many challenges. Before joining NOAA, Margaret A. Davidson was executive director of the South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium from 1983 to 1995. She also served as special counsel and assistant attorney general for the Louisiana Department of Justice.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Coastal Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerabilities
Book Subtitle: A Technical Input to the 2013 National Climate Assessment
Editors: Virginia Burkett, Margaret Davidson
Series Title: NCA Regional Input Reports
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-460-4
Publisher: Island Press Washington, DC
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-61091-460-4Published: 26 September 2013
Series ISSN: 2945-5677
Series E-ISSN: 2945-5685
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 188
Topics: Climate Change, Oceanography, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Climate Change Management and Policy, Coastal Sciences, Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management