Societal adaptation to climate variability and change / edited by Sally M. Kane and Gary W. Yohe.

"Reprinted from Climate Change, Volume 45, No.1, 2000."

Includes bibliographical references.

Societal adaptation to climate variability and change: an introduction -- Cautionary tales: adaptation and the global poor -- Smallholder maize production and climatic risk: a case study from Mexico -- Pacific salmon fisheries: climate information and adaptation in a conflict-ridden context -- Reducing vulnerability to climate variability in Southern Africa: the growing role of climate information -- Linking adaptation and mitigation in climate change policy -- Adaptation and the guardrail approach to tolerable climate change -- The impacts of climate variability on near-term policy choices and the value of information -- Climate variability, climate change and water resource management in the Great Lakes -- Adaptation in Canadian agriculture to climatic variability and change -- Adaptation: sensitivity to natural variability, agent assumptions and dynamic climate changes -- An anatomy of adaptation to climate change and variability -- Irreversibility, uncertainty, and learning: portraits of adaptation to long-term climate change