PA51C:
Governing Medium- to Long-Term Climate Risks: What Tools Do We Have? I Posters

Session ID#: 3305

Friday, 19 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Rachael Shwom, Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, United States and Robert E Kopp, Rutgers University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Brunswick, United States
Primary Convener:  Rachael Shwom, Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
Co-Convener:  Robert E Kopp, Rutgers University New Brunswick, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Rachael Shwom, Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • ED - Education
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]
6319 Institutions [POLICY SCIENCES]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
PA51C-4061
Using Integrated Assessment Models to Estimate the Economic Damages from Temperature Related Human Health Effects in the US (Invited) (3306)
Elisabeth Gilmore1, Katherine V Calvin2, Robin Puett3, Amir Sapkota3 and Adria Schwarber4, (1)University of Maryland College Park, School of Public Policy, College Park, MD, United States, (2)Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, College Park, MD, United States, (3)University of Maryland College Park, School of Public Health, College Park, MD, United States, (4)University of Maryland College Park, Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, College Park, MD, United States
 
PA51C-4062
Scenarios to prioritize observing activities on the North Slope, Alaska in the context of resource development, climate change and socio-economic uncertainties (17923)
Olivia Astillero Lee1, Hajo Eicken1, John F Payne2 and Dennis Lassuy2, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)North Slope Science Initiative, Anchorage, AK, United States
 
PA51C-4063
MANAGING RISKS? EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE (21836)
Zinta Amanda Zommers, Asha Mutenyo Sitati and Mushfig Habilov, United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
 
PA51C-4064
Obstacles to adaptation decisions in the developing world: A case study of coastal protection measures and sea-level rise in Kiribati (28725)
Simon D Donner, University of British Columbia, Department of Geography, Vancouver, BC, Canada and Sophie Webber, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
 
PA51C-4065
Group Poster Discussion 10 am to 11 am
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