3-13: Societal Responses to Regional Climate Change

Short Summaries of Recent Research

• Climate Change in the Western US Leads to Less Snow and Earlier Snowmelt
  
  
• Climate Caused Collapse of the Mayan Civilization
  
  
• Forecasting by Analogy: Notes from the 1995 CU-SeeMe interaction with Mickey Glantz
  
  

Websites

• Emissions Double Heatwave Risk
  
  
• Sea Engulfing Alaskan Village
  
  
• Environmental and Societal Impact Group
  
  
• Center for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE)
  
  
• Environment97, world's first environmental conference entirely on the Internet.
  
  
• Environmental and Societal Impacts of Weather bibliography from the NCAR
  
  
• Environmental Refugees and Ecological Restoration
  
  
• Societal Aspects of Weather
  
  

Additional References

• Schiermeier, Q., 2005: The chaos to come. Nature, 438, 903-906.
  
  
• Pacala, W. W., E. Bulte, J. A. List, and S. A. Levin, 2003: False alarm over environmental false alarms. Science 301, 1187-1188.
  
  
• Glantz, M. H., 1996: Currents of Change: El Nino's Impact on Climate and Society. Cambridge University Press.
  
  
• Wurbs, R. A. 1995: Water rights in Texas. Journal of Water Resouces Planning and Management, 121, 447-454.
  
  
• Glantz, Michael H. ed., 1988: Societal Responses to Regional Climatic Change: Forecasting by Analogy. Westview Press, 428 pages.