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An exciting and provocative book has just been released about the impact of climate change on biological diversity. The book, originally published in Japanese in 1997, is a collection of papers by Japanese scientists about the effects of climate change they observed in their areas of expertise.
A Threat to Life was compiled in order to focus attention on the interrelationship between climate change and biodiversity at a time when discussions were centering on numerical emissions targets for the UNFCCC COP3 in Kyoto, Japan. Biodiversity Network Japan (an IUCN member) and IUCN organized four symposia leading up to COP3 which examined the influences of climate change on biodiversity. This book is a product of these symposia.
The book is edited by Ms. Akiko Domoto, Vice President of IUCN, Dr. Kunio Iwatsuki, Steering Committee Member of the Species Survival Commission of IUCN, Dr. Takeo Kawamichi and Dr. Jeffrey McNeely, IUCN Chief Scientist.
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Foreward Jeffrey McNeely,
Preface Akiko Domoto
Section I．Toward a Biospheric Approach --At the Intersection of the Two Rio Conventions
Chapter 1 Creating Synergy in Environmental Policy: Bridging the Gaps between the Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity /Akiko Domoto
Chapter 2 Global Climate Change and Biodiversity /Richard B. Primack
Section II．An Overview of Climate Change --From the Past to the Future
Chapter 3 Projections Concerning Global Warming, /Hiroshi Nirasawa
Chapter 4 Greenhouse Gas Emission Scenarios /Tsuneyuki Morita, Mikiko Kainuma and Yuzuru Matsuoka
Chapter 5 Ecosystems and the Carbon Cycle, /Takehisa Oikawa
Chapter 6 Influence of Decreased Snowfall due to Warming Climate Trends on the Water Quality of Lake Biwa, Japan, /Hiroji Fushimi
Chapter 7 Sudden Global Warming and Sea Level Change in Holocene Japan, /Arata Momohara
Chapter 8 Recent Changes in Glacial Phenomena in the Nepalese Himalayas, /Hiroshi Fushimi
Section III．The Impact of Global Warming on Flora and Fauna
Chapter 9 How Will Communities of Alpine Plants be Affected by Global Warming?, /Takehiro Masuzawa
Chapter 10 Aquatic Plants at Risk, /Yasuro Kadono
Chapter 11 Warming and Japanese Seagrasses, /Keiko Aioi and Yuji Omori
Chapter 12 The Impact of Global Warming on Insects, /Hidenori Ubukata
Chapter 13 Global Warming and Alpine Moths in Raised Bogs in Eastern Hokkaido, /Masahiko Nakatani
Chapter 14 Global Warming and Forest Insect Pests: An Example from Hokkaido, /Kenji Fukuyama
Chapter 15 What Will Happen to Marine Organisms in the Future?, /Masayuki M.Takahashi
Chapter 16 Global Warming and Coral Reefs, /Kiyoshi Yamazato
Chapter 17 Potential Impacts of Global Warming on Freshwater Ecosystems in Japan, /Hiromi Kobori
Chapter 18 The Influence of Global Warming on Fish, /Seiichi Mori
Chapter 19 The Impact of Global Warming on Sea Turtles, /Naoki Namezaki
Chapter 20 What Will Happen to the Birds?, /Nobuo Takeshita and Masayuki Kurechi
Chapter 21 Can Pikas on High Mountains Survive the Greenhouse Effect?, /Takeo Kawamichi
Chapter 22 Global Warming and Increases in Human Infectious Diseases, /Takayuki Ezaki
Chapter 23 Global Warming and the Dynamics of Biodiversity, /Kunio Iwatsuki
Postscript Global Warming and Biodiversity: The Situation in Japan, /Harafumi Nishida
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