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Panel on Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change
Biographical Sketches of Panelists
Full Statement of Task
Meetings
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)
Arizona Water Institute
Dr. Thomas J. Wilbanks (Vice-Chair)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Mr. Bruce Baughman
IEM, Inc.
Dr. Roger N. Beachy
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
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
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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