Publications

• An Introduction for Canadian Municipalities
• Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation: A Canadian Perspective
• Sensitivities to Climate Change in Canada
• Climate Change Posters
• Environmental Atlas of the Beaufort Coastlands
• Sand dune & climate change studies in the Prairie Provinces

Fact Sheets

• Agriculture [PDF, 409.9 kb, viewer]
• Coastal Zone [PDF, 165.8 kb, viewer]
• Fisheries [PDF, 193.1 kb, viewer]
• Forestry [PDF, 167.4 kb, viewer]
• Water Resources [PDF, 273.5 kb, viewer]
• Communities [PDF, 144.2 kb, viewer]

Impacts and Adaptation Project Reports

In the project database the description of each completed project contains a list of all reports and papers generated as a result of the project. Links to the reports, some of which are on other websites and in journal publications, are provided where appropriate.

• New project report: Impacts of and adaptation to GHG climate change on the ski and golf recreation activities and the tourism industry: a case study in Quebec [PDF, 2.6 Mb, viewer] (French only, with English abstract)
• New project report: Walpole Island First Nation: Evaluation of Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Options [PDF, 429.3 kb, viewer]
• FCM 2006 Sustainable Communities Conference presentation: Adaptation to Climate Change: An Introduction for Canadian Municipalities [PDF, 748.6 kb, viewer]
• FCM 2006 Sustainable Communities Conference presentation: Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Program [PDF, 1.6 Mb, viewer]
• New report: An overview of the risk management approach to adaptation to climate change in Canada [PDF, 805.1 kb, viewer]
• New project report: The Vulnerability of Tourism & Recreation in the National Capital Region to Climate Change [PDF, 610.2 kb, viewer]
• New project report: Climate Change & Banff National Park: implications for tourism and recreation [PDF, 1.5 Mb, viewer]

A selection of new journal publications of interest

• Vasquez-Léon, M., West, C.T. and T.J. Finan. 2003 A comparative assessment of climate vulnerability: agriculture and ranching on both sides of the US-Mexico border. Global Environmental Change Vol. 13: 159-173.
• Willows, R. and R. Connell (eds). 2003 Climate adaptation: Risk, uncertainty and decision-making. UKCIP Technical Report [PDF, 1.1 Mb, viewer]. 154pp. Available online.
• Hertin, J.; Berkhout, F.; Gann, D.; Barlow, J. (2003): Climate change and the UK house building sector: perceptions, impacts and adaptive capacity, Building Research and Information; vol. 31, no. 3-4, pp. 278-290.
• Robert, Lisø K.; Aandahl, G.; Eriksen, S.; Alfsen, K. (2003): Preparing for climate change impacts in Norway's built environment, Building Research and Information; vol. 31, no. 3-4, pp. 200-209.
• Dore, M.H.I. (2003): Forecasting the Conditional Probabilities of Natural Disasters in Canada as a Guide for Disaster Preparedness, Natural Hazards; vol. 28, no. 2, p. 249-269.
• Changnon, S.A. (2003): Shifting Economic Impacts from Weather Extremes in the United States: A Result of Societal Changes, Not Global Warming, Natural Hazards; vol. 29, no. 2, p. 273-290.
• IISD, IUCN, SEI (2003): Livelihoods and Climate Change: Combining disaster risk reduction, natural resource management and climate change adaptation in a new approach to the reduction of vulnerability and poverty; IISD, 24 p. ISBN: 1-895536-72-3 (available on-line).
• Reinsborough M.J.(2003): A Ricardian model of climate change in Canada, Canadian Journal of Economics; vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 21-40.

New Journal Publications Archive

Links to Canadian Climate Change Websites

• CCAF Climate Science component
• Canadian Climate Impact Scenarios (source of climate model data and climate scenario development products)
• Canadian Climate Impacts and Adaptation Research Network (C-CIARN)
• Climate Change Portal (search engine)
• Impacts and Adaptation related sites in other federal departments
  • Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
    • GSC Geological Survey of Canada
    • CCRS Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
    • GeoConnections Discovery Portal (formerly CEONET portal)
    • Reducing Canada's Vulnerability to Climate Change
  • Environment Canada
    • Adaptation and Impacts Research Group (AIRG)
    • Northern Ecosystem Initiative (NEI)
    • Aquatic Ecosystem Impacts Research Branch (AEIRB)
    • The Canada Country Study
  • Health Canada
  • Agricuture and Agri-food Canada
  • Fisheries and Oceans Canada
  • Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada (PSEP)
• National Climate Change Process
  • Canada's First National Climate Change Business Plan
  • RD from May 2002 JMM relating to the Adaptation Framework

Links to International Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Sites

• Arctic Climate Impact Assessment
• The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third Assessment Report
  • Technical Summary
  • Summary for Policymakers
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
  • UNFCCC WORKSHOP ON METHODOLOGIES ON CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT AND ADAPTATION
• The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
  • Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change in Multiple Regions and Sectors
• International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP)
• US National Assessment
• US EPA Environmental Protection Agency
  • Global Change Research
  • Assessing the Impacts of Climate Variability and Change on the Nation's Resources
• UKCIP Climate Impacts Programme
• UK Department for Transport
• UK Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
• UK Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
• Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
• Potsdam Vulnerability site
• Australian Strategy - Chapter 7, Adaptation
• Australia CSIRO Climate and Atmosphere Sector: Impacts & Adaptation Working Group