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Panel on Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change


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    This panel will address the question: "What can be done to adapt to the impacts of climate change?"

    The panel will describe, analyze, and assess actions and strategies to reduce vulnerability, increase adaptive capacity, improve resiliency, and promote successful adaptation to climate change in different regions, sectors, systems, and populations. The costs, benefits, limitations, tradeoffs, and uncertainties associated with different options and strategies should be assessed qualitatively and, to the extent practicable, quantitatively, using the scenarios of future climate change and vulnerability developed in coordination with the Committee on America's Climate Choices and other panels. The panel will draw on existing reports and assessments and use case studies to identify lessons learned from past experiences, promising current approaches, and potential new directions. The issues and examples considered by the panel should be drawn from a variety of regions and sectors, focusing on domestic actions but also considering international dimensions, and should cover a range of temporal and spatial scales.

    The members of the Panel on Adapting the Impacts of Climate Change are:

    Ms. Katharine L. Jacobs (Chair), University of Arizona
    Dr. Thomas J. Wilbanks (Vice-Chair), Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    Mr. Bruce Baughman, IEM, Inc.
    Dr. Georges C. Benjamin, American Public Health Association
    Mr. James L. Buizer, Arizona State University
    Dr. F. Stuart (Terry) Chapin, III, University of Alaska
    Dr. W. Peter Cherry, Science Applications International Corporation
    Dr. Braxton Davis, South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control
    Dr. Kristie L. Ebi, IPCC Technical Support Unit WGII
    Mayor Jeremy Harris, Retired, Sustainable Cities Institute
    Dr. Robert Kates, Independent Scholar
    Dr. Howard Kunreuther, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business
    Dr. Linda Mearns, National Center for Atmospheric Research
    Dr. Philip Mote, University of Washington
    Dr. Andrew Rosenberg, University of New Hampshire
    Dr. Henry G. Schwartz, Jr., Jacobs Civil (retired)
    Mr. Joel B. Smith, Stratus Consulting, Inc.
    Dr. Gary Yohe, Wesleyan University
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