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Clair Hanson
Researcher at Imperial College London
Publications - 8
Citations - 9534
Clair Hanson is an academic researcher from Imperial College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Climate change & Land use, land-use change and forestry. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 8 publications receiving 9375 citations. Previous affiliations of Clair Hanson include University of East Anglia.
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Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a cross-chapter case study on climate change and sustainability in natural and managed systems and assess key vulnerabilities and the risk from climate change, and assess adaptation practices, options, constraints and capacity.
Climate change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Summary for Policymakers.
TL;DR: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was set up jointly by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme to provide an authoritative international statement of scientific understanding of climate change.
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Overshoot, adapt and recover.
TL;DR: The authors will probably overshoot the current climate targets, so policies of adaptation and recovery need much more attention, say Martin Parry, Jason Lowe and Clair Hanson.
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Climate change and water: IPCC technical paper VI
Bates Bryson,C. Kundzeqicz,Shaohong Wu,Nigel W. Arnell,Virginia Burkett,Petra Döll,Daniel Gwary,Clair Hanson,Bertjan Heij,Elena Jiménez,Georg Kaser,A. Kitoh,Sari Kovats,Pushpam Kumar,D. Magadza,Daniel Martino,José Mata,Mahmoud Medany,A.A. Miller,Taikan Oki,Balgis Osman,Jean Palutikof,Terry Prowse,Roger S. Pulwarty,James Renwick,Jouni Räisänen,Nicola Tubiello,Richard Wood,Zongci Zhao,Richard Betts,Aiguo Dai,Christopher Milly,Linda Mortsch,Leonard Nurse,Richard Payne,Iwona Pińskwar,Tom Wilbanks +36 more
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Squaring up to reality
TL;DR: Both emissions reduction and adaptation will need to be much stronger than currently planned if dangerous global impacts of climate change are to be avoided June's UN talks in Bonn and July's G8 summit present opportunities for world leaders to face this challenge as discussed by the authors.