Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region : Navigating an Uncertain Future.

Intro -- Contents -- Thinking about Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region -- Part One: Effects of Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region -- Historical Climate Trends in Michigan and the Great Lakes Region -- Jeffrey A. Andresen -- Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Strategies for Great Lakes Nearshore and Coastal Systems -- Scudder D. Mackey -- Climate Change and Biodiversity in the Great Lakes Region: From "Fingerprints" of Change to Helping Safeguard Species -- Kimberly R. Hall and Terry L. Root -- Part Two: Decision Making and Climate Change -- Decision Making under Climate Uncertainty: The Power of Understanding Judgment and Decision Processes -- Sabine M. Marx and Elke U. Weber -- Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change: Is Uncertain Information Usable Knowledge? -- William E. Easterling, Clark Seipt, Adam Terando, and Xianzeng Niu -- Adapting to Climate Change in the Context of Multiple Risks: A Case Study of Cash Crop Farming in Ontario -- Ben Bradshaw, Suzanne Belliveau, and Barry Smit -- Part Three: Adaptation Tools and Case Studies -- The Contextual Importance of Uncertainty in Climate-Sensitive Decision-Making: Toward an Integrative Decision-Centered Screening Tool -- Susanne Moser -- Linking Science to Decision Making in the Great Lakes Region -- Joel D. Scheraga -- The Development and Communication of an Ensemble of Local- Scale Climate Scenarios: An Example from the Pileus Project -- Julie A. Winkler, Jeanne M. Bisanz, Galina S. Guentchev, Krerk Piromsopa, Jenni van Ravensway, Haryono Prawiranata, Ryan S. Torre, Hai Kyung Min, and Johnathan Clark -- Preparing for Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region -- Notes on the Contributors -- Reflections on Stephen H. Schneider -- Index.

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