Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Drafting Authors: Neil Adger, Pramod Aggarwal, Shardul Agrawala, Joseph Alcamo, Abdelkader Allali, Oleg Anisimov, Nigel Arnell, Michel Boko, Osvaldo Canziani, Timothy Carter, Gino Casassa, Ulisses Confalonieri, Rex Victor Cruz, Edmundo de Alba Alcaraz, William Easterling, Christopher Field, Andreas Fischlin, Blair Fitzharris, Carlos Gay García, Clair Hanson, Hideo Harasawa, Kevin Hennessy, Saleemul Huq, Roger Jones, Lucka Kajfež Bogataj, David Karoly, Richard Klein, Zbigniew Kundzewicz, Murari Lal, Rodel Lasco, Geoff Love, Xianfu Lu, Graciela Magrín, Luis José Mata, Roger McLean, Bettina Menne, Guy Midgley, Nobuo Mimura, Monirul Qader Mirza, José Moreno, Linda Mortsch, Isabelle Niang-Diop, Robert Nicholls, Béla Nováky, Leonard Nurse, Anthony Nyong, Michael Oppenheimer, Jean Palutikof, Martin Parry, Anand Patwardhan, Patricia Romero Lankao, Cynthia Rosenzweig, Stephen Schneider, Serguei Semenov, Joel Smith, John Stone, Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, David Vaughan, Coleen Vogel, Thomas Wilbanks, Poh Poh Wong, Shaohong Wu, Gary Yohe

T. Wilbanks | A. Fischlin | B. Menne | G. Yohe | J. Marengo | W. Easterling | K. Hennessy | Shaohong Wu | N. Arnell | O. Canziani | C. Hanson | C. Vogel | G. Casassa | G. Midgley | J. Alcamo | N. Adger | M. L. P. J. Palut | P. Aggarwal | G. Magrin | U. Confalonieri | M. Lal | N. Mimura | L. J. Mata | B. Fitzharris | S. Agrawala | A. Allali | M. Boko | R. Cruz | E. D. A. Alcaraz | H. Harasawa | G. Love | Xianfu Lu | R. Mclean | D. Vaughan | P. Wong | P. Aggarwal | U. Confalonieri | M. Lal | Xianfu Lu | Christopher Field | Blair Fitzharris | Francis W. ZwiersCanada | Peter A. StottUK | Oleg Anisimov | Timothy Carter | Christopher Field | Carlos Gay García | Rodel Lasco | Shardul Agrawala | Joseph Alcamo | Abdelkader Allali | Oleg Anisimov | Osvaldo Canziani | Timothy R. Carter | Gino Casassa | Ulisses Confalonieri | Edmundo de Alba Alcaraz | William Easterling | Andreas Fischlin | C. García | Hideo Harasawa | Rodel Lasco | Graciela Magrín | Luis José Mata | R. McLean | Bettina Menne | Nobuo Mimura | Thomas Wilbanks | Gary Yohe | Gary Yohe | Neil Adger | Pramod Aggarwal | Nigel Arnell | Michel Boko | Rex Victor Cruz | William Easterling | Christopher Field | Hideo Harasawa | Kevin Hennessy | Murari Lal | Geoff Love | Xianfu Lu | Luis José Mata | Roger McLean | Bettina Menne | Guy Midgley | Nobuo Mimura | David Vaughan | Coleen Vogel | Poh Poh Wong | Shaohong Wu | Neil Adger | Pramod Aggarwal | Joseph Alcamo | Oleg Anisimov | Michel Boko | Gino Casassa | Rex Victor Cruz | William Easterling | Christopher Field | Kevin Hennessy | Murari Lal | Geoff Love | Xianfu Lu | Luis José Mata | Roger McLean | Guy Midgley | David Vaughan | T. Wilbanks | Poh Poh Wong | Shaohong Wu | G. Yohe | Guy Midgley | Neil Adger | Pramod Aggarwal | Oleg Anisimov | Michel Boko | Rex Victor Cruz | William Easterling | Christopher Field | Kevin Hennessy | Murari Lal | Geoff Love | Xianfu Lu | Luis José Mata | Roger McLean | David Vaughan | Poh Poh Wong | Shaohong Wu | Gary Yohe | Geoff Love

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