Climate Change Impact Assessment Reports
By Joe Abraham | The University of Arizona | June 02, 2009
The climate impact assessment reports below have been developed to provide governments, agencies, businesses, and citizens with credible, science-based information about the potential impacts of climate change, like reduced mountain snowpack, increasing coastal flooding, and elevated wildfire risk. These reports are also useful resources for agencies, businesses, and other organizations that are developing climate adaptation strategies. The reports below compliment information on this web site about climate change impacts affecting the Southwest.
The reports below synthesize results of many peer-reviewed studies and thus provide readers with a more complete representation of climate change impacts based on available research. While individual studies can be particularly useful, they are typically focused on specific case studies and include assumptions that often limit their applicability to a broader range of settings. Therefore, reports like the ones below provide non-experts with an easier and more accessible way to learn about increased risk of droughts, floods, disease vectors, and other projected impacts without having to conduct a review and analysis of individual peer-reviewed studies that typically require journal article subscriptions. While the Southwest Climate Change Network‘s library contains bibliographic information for many individual studies on climate change, it does not provide access to most articles in electronic format due to copyright restrictions.
