The overarching goal of the Government of Canada's Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Program is to reduce Canada's vulnerability to climate change. The research program supports cost shared research to address gaps in our knowledge of Canada's vulnerability to climate change and to provide information for adaptation decision-making.

The program also supports the Canadian Climate Impacts and Adaptation Research Network (C-CIARN). This network facilitates linkages between stakeholders and researchers, promotes new research techniques and methodologies, disseminates information, and provides a voice for an emerging impacts and adaptation research community.

Additional copies of this report can be obtained from

Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Directorate
Natural Resources Canada
601 Booth Street
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0E8
adaptation@nrcan.gc.ca

© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, 2004

ISBN: 0-662-33123-0
Cat. No.: M174-2/2004E

Ce document est également offert en français sous le titre :
Impacts et adaptation liés aux changements climatiques : perspective canadienne

Edited by:
Donald S. Lemmen and Fiona J. Warren
Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Directorate,
Natural Resources Canada Ottawa, Ontario

Principal Writer:
Fiona J. Warren, Natural Resources Canada

Other Contributing writers:
Elaine Barrow, University of Regina (Chapter 2: Directions)
Ryan Schwartz, Natural Resources Canada (Chapter 7: Coastal Zone)
Jean Andrey, University of Waterloo (Chapter 8: Transportation)
Brian Mills, Environment Canada (Chapter 8: Transportation)
Dieter Riedel, Health Canada (Chapter 9: Human Health and Well-Being)

Acknowledgements

The Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Directorate, Natural Resources Canada, gratefully acknowledges the contributions of the following people in reviewing chapters and providing comments: