Society

Analyses of the effects of global change on human health and welfare and human systems: July 2008. A 284 page report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research focuses on impacts of global climate change, especially impacts on three broad dimensions of the human condition: human health, human settlements, and human welfare.

Sea levels: science and society:  2008. A peer-reviewed paper by R. Edwards. Progress in Physical Geography.2008; 32: 557-574

The Rising Tide: Assessing the risks of climate change and human settlements in low elevation coastal zones. April 2007. This paper describes the impact of sea level rise on the global population predicting 10% of the total population will be displaced by flooding in the coming century. Gordon McGranahan, Deborah Balk, and Bridget Anderson; Environment and Urbanization, Apr. 2007; vol.19: pp.17-37.

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