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Pages 28-30

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... THE CHANGING CONTEXT As noted by Wilbanks, the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC sharpened the focus of global climate change science and policy making on impacts, vulnerabilities, and mitigation and adaptation. After a period in which support for most research on climate change impacts and adaptation was scarce, policy makers began seeking answers to urgent questions on those topics.
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... Third, there is a need to consider climate change impacts and responses in the broader context of sustainability. This consideration needs to include specific development pathways, evolving socioeconomic conditions, multiple stresses, gaps between anticipated and actual human behavior, and associated complexities inherent to the relationships among strategy, policy, and action.
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... The participants identified several key issues for the next IPCC assessment, including the need to strengthen the knowledge base in peerreviewed research, especially for such understudied sectors as cities and settlements; maintaining the risk management paradigm, including nonclimate changes in projections of longer-term impacts and costs; and developing reference scenarios for vulnerability, impacts, and adaptation assessments.
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