Prof. Mark Rounsevell - Climate Change: Where Are We Going?
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Professor Mark Rounsevell, Professor of Rural Economy and Sustainability, delivers the eighth lecture in the 2014 Our Changing World series, entitled Climate Change: Where Are We Going?
This lecture maps out the progression of climate change impact and adaptation studies with a focus on land-based sectors. It highlights that single-sector studies risk either over- or under-estimating the effects of climate change, and the capacity of society to cope and adapt to such changes.
Recorded on 11 November 2014 at the University of Edinburgh's Appleton Tower.
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