Adaptation Science Newsletter

Issue 5, October 2006

Students

Langsdale, S. submitted. An Exploration of Water Resources Futures under Climate Change Using System Dynamics Modeling. Integrated Assessment

Langsdale, S. submitted. Shared learning through group model building for the management of water resources and climate change in the Okanagan River basin, British Columbia. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management.

Langsdale, S. submitted. Communication of climate change uncertainty to stakeholders using the scenario approach. Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education.

Stewart Cohen

Cohen, S.J., and others, in preparation. Shared Learning on Adapting to Climate Change: Experiences from the Columbia Basin Trust Initiative—Communities Adapting to Climate Change

Cohen, S.J., in preparation. Adaptation as a ‘real’ decision: Challenges and opportunities for linking climate change science to community planning in rural regions and small towns. In J. Ford and L.B. Ford (eds.) Climate Change Adaptation in Developed Nations, Springer, Berlin.

Cohen, S., S. Sheppard, A. Shaw, D. Flanders, S. Burch, B. Taylor, D. Hutchinson, A. Cannon, S. Hamilton, B. Burton and J. Carmichael, in review. Remembering the snows of yesteryear – public responses to local climate change visioning of mountain snow packs and future community development in the District of North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Bizikova, L., S. Burch, S. Cohen and J. Robinson. 2010. Linking sustainable development with climate change adaptation & mitigation. In O’ Brien, K.L., A. St. Clair, and B. Kristoffersen (editors). Climate Change, Ethics, and Human Security. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 157-179.

Cohen, S.J. 2010. From observer to extension agent – using research experiences to enable proactive response to climate change. Climatic Change, 100, 131-135.

Cohen, S. with M. Waddell. 2009. Climate Change in the 21st Century. McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal, 379p.

Shaw, A., S. Sheppard, S. Burch, D. Flanders, A. Wiek, J. Carmichael, J. Robinson and S. Cohen. 2009. Making local futures tangible—synthesizing, downscaling, and visualizing climate change scenarios for participatory capacity building. Global Environmental Change, 19, 447-463.

Karl, T.R., J.M. Melillo and T.C. Peterson (eds.). 2009. Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States. (S.J. Cohen--member of author team). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 188p.

Langsdale, S.M., A. Beall, J. Carmichael, S.J. Cohen, C.B. Forster and T. Neale. 2009. Exploring the implications of climate change on water resources through participatory modeling: Case study of the Okanagan Basin, British Columbia. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 135, 5, 373-381.

Easterling, D.R., D.M. Anderson, S.J. Cohen, W.J. Gutowski, G.J. Holland, K.E. Kunkel, T.C. Peterson, R.S. Pulwarty, R.J. Stouffer, M.F. Wehner, 2008: Measures to Improve Our Understanding of Weather and Climate Extremes; in Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate. Regions of Focus: North America, Hawaii, Caribbean, and U.S. Pacific Islands. T.R. Karl, G.A. Meehl, C.D. Miller, S.J. Hassol, A.M. Waple, and W.L. Murray (eds.). A Report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research, Washington, DC., p 117-126.

Peterson, T.C., D.M. Anderson, S.J. Cohen, M. Cortez-Vázquez, R.J. Murnane, C. Parmesan, D. Phillips, R.S. Pulwarty, J.M.R. Stone, 2008: Why Weather and Climate Extremes Matter; in Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate. Regions of Focus: North America, Hawaii, Caribbean, and U.S. Pacific Islands. T.R. Karl, G.A. Meehl, C.D. Miller, S.J. Hassol, A.M. Waple, and W.L. Murray (eds.). A Report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research, Washington, DC., p. 11-34.

Walker, I.J. and R. Sydneysmith, (contributing author: S. Cohen and 30 others). 2008. British Columbia; Chapter 8 in From Impacts to Adaptation: Canada in a Changing Climate 2007 (D.S. Lemmen, F.J. Warren, J. Lacroix and E. Bush, eds.), Government of Canada, Ottawa, p. 329-386.

Langsdale, S.M., A. Beall, J. Carmichael, S. Cohen, and C. Forster. 2007. An exploration of water resources futures under climate change using system dynamics modeling. Integrated Assessment Journal, 7, 1, 57-79.
Neilsen, D., S. Cohen, S. Smith, G. Frank, W. Koch, Y. Alila, W. Merritt, M. Barton and B. Taylor. 2007. Agricultural water supply in the Okanagan Basin: using climate change scenarios to inform dialogue and planning processes. In Farming in a Changing Climate: Agricultural Adaptation in Canada [Wall, E., B. Smit and J. Wandel, (eds.)], UBC Press, Vancouver, 81-100.

Bizikova, L., J. Robinson and S. Cohen. 2007. Linking climate change and sustainable development at the local level. Climate Policy, 7, 4, 271-277.

Neale, T., J. Carmichael and S. Cohen. 2007. Urban Water Futures: A multivariate analysis of population growth and climate change impacts on urban water demand in the Okanagan Basin, BC. Canadian Water Resources Journal, 32: 315-330.

Kundzewicz, Z.W., L.J. Mata, N.W. Arnell, P. Döll, P. Kabat, B. Jiménez, K.A. Miller, T. Oki, Z. Şen and I.A. Shiklomanov. (S. Cohen--contributing author) 2007. Freshwater resources and their management. In: Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Parry, M., O. Canziani, J. Palutikof and P. van der Linden (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, 173-210.

Yohe, G.W., R.D. Lasco, Q.K. Ahmad, N. Arnell, S.J. Cohen, C. Hope, A.C. Janetos and R.T. Perez. 2007. Perspectives on climate change and sustainability. In: Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Parry, M., O. Canziani, J. Palutikof and P. van der Linden (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, 811-841.

Cohen, S. and T. Neale (eds.). 2006. Participatory integrated assessment of water management and climate change in the Okanagan Basin, British Columbia. Final report, Project A846. Submitted to Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa. Environment Canada and University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 188p.

Koshida, G., T. Neale, S. Cohen and A. Hebb (eds.). 2006. Water Availability Standards for Canadian Agriculture, Pilot Watershed Study of the National Agri-Environmental Standards Initiative, Water Availability Standard. National Agri-Environmental Standards Initiative (NAESI) Technical Series 2006, Report No. 2-55, Environment Canada, Gatineau, 486 p.

Neilsen, D., Smith, C. A. S., Frank, G., Koch, W., Alila, Y., Merritt, W., Taylor, W. G., Barton, M., Hall, J. W. and Cohen, S. J. 2006. Potential impacts of climate change on water availability for crops in the Okanagan Basin, British Columbia. Can. J. Soil Science, 86:921-936.

Bizikova, L. and S. Cohen (eds.). 2006. International Workshop: Climate Change Adaptation, Mitigation and Linkages with Sustainable Development. Proceedings of workshop held April 19-21, 2006, Vancouver. Environment Canada and University of British Columbia, Vancouver., 27 p.

Merritt W., Y. Alila, M. Barton, B. Taylor, S. Cohen and D. Neilsen. 2006. Hydrologic response to scenarios of climate change in subwatersheds of the Okanagan Basin, British Columbia. Journal of Hydrology 326, 79-108.
Cohen, S., D. Neilsen, S. Smith, T. Neale, B. Taylor, M. Barton, W. Merritt, Y. Alila, P. Shepherd, R. McNeill, J. Tansey, J. Carmichael and S. Langsdale. 2006. Learning with Local Help: Expanding the Dialogue on Climate Change and Water Management in the Okanagan Region, British Columbia, Canada. Climatic Change, 75, 331-358.

Kathleen D. White, S.V. Vaddey, A.F. Hamlet, S. Cohen, D. Neilsen, and W. Taylor. 2006.
Integrating Climate Impacts in Water Resource Planning and Management. In Proceedings, ASCE 13th International Conference on Cold Regions Engineering, July 23-26, 2006, Orono Maine.
Cohen, S., D. Neilsen and S. Langsdale. 2005. Exploring options for adapting water management in the Okanagan region to future climate change. In Canadian Water Resources Association—B.C. Branch, Water—Our Limiting Resource: Towards Sustainable Water Management in the Okanagan. Proceedings of a conference held in Kelowna BC, Feb. 23-25, 2005, 306-319.

Koshida, G., M. Alden, S. J. Cohen, R. Halliday, L. D. Mortsch, V. Wittrock and A. R. Maarouf. 2005. Drought Risk Management in Canada-U.S. Transboundary Watersheds: Now and in the Future, in D. A. Wilhite (ed.) Drought and Water Crises: Science, Technology and Management Issues, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, pp. 287-317.

Mirza, M.M.Q., I. Burton, A. Maarouf, B. Taylor, B. Rong, B. Bass, B. Mills, D. Etkin, D. MacIver, G. Koshida, L. Mortsch, P. Gachon, S. Cohen, E. Barrow and R. Street. 2004. SCENARIOS - the long term challenges and looking forward. In E. Barrow, B. Maxwell and P. Gachon (eds), Climate Variability and Change in Canada: Past, Present and Future, ACSD Science Assessment Series No. 2, Meteorological Service of Canada, Environment Canada, Toronto, Ontario, 114p.

Cohen, S.J. 2004. Regional assessment of climate change impacts in Canada: Okanagan case study. In Fenech, A., D. MacIver, H. Auld, R. Bing Rong and Y. Yin (Eds.), Climate Change: Building the Adaptive Capacity. Meteorological Service of Canada, Environment Canada, Toronto, pp. 103-112.

Cohen, S., D. Neilsen and R. Welbourn (eds.). 2004. Expanding the dialogue on climate change & water management in the Okanagan Basin, British Columbia. Final Report, Project A463/433, submitted to Climate Change Action Fund, Natural Resources Canada. Environment Canada and University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 230 pp.

Cohen, S., B. Bass, D. Etkin, B. Jones, J. Lacroix, B. Mills, D. Scott and G.C. van Kooten. 2004. Regional adaptation strategies. In H. Coward and A. Weaver (eds.), Hard Choices: Climate Change in Canada, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 151-178.

Bruce, J.P. and S.J. Cohen. 2004. Impacts of climate change in Canada. In H. Coward and A. Weaver (eds.), Hard Choices: Climate Change in Canada, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 73-88.

Ogden, A. and S. Cohen. 2004a. Stakeholder involvement in climate change assessment: experiences from Northern Canada. In M.A. Lange and D. Porzig (eds.), IRISEN-II. Integrated Regional Impact Studies in the European North: Basic Issues, Methodologies and Regional Climate Modelling- II, Proceedings of an advanced study course at Abisko Scientific Research Station, Sweden, July 20 – August 3, 2002. Center for Environmental Research, University of Münster, Münster, 377-386.

Ogden, A. and S. Cohen. 2004b. Integration and synthesis: assessing climate change impacts in Northern Canada. In M.A. Lange and D. Porzig (eds.), IRISEN-II. Integrated Regional Impact Studies in the European North: Basic Issues, Methodologies and Regional Climate Modelling- II, Proceedings of an advanced study course at Abisko Scientific Research Station, Sweden, July 20 – August 3, 2002. Center for Environmental Research, University of Münster, Münster , 387-394.

Cohen, S., R. de Löe, A. Hamlet, R. Herrington, L. Mortsch, and D. Shrubsole. (2004). Integrated and Cumulative Threats to Water Availability. In “Threats to Water Availability in Canada”, Environment Canada, National Water Research Institute, Burlington Ontario, 117-127.

Cohen, S. 2004. Climate change impacts and adaptation: Role of scenarios of extreme events. The Climate Network, 8, 4, 1 continued on 6-7. Canadian Institute for Climate Studies, Victoria.

Cohen, S. 2003. Climate change and water resources: an update on activities of the AIRG. Water News, 22, 4, 12-13. Canadian Water Resources Association.

Swart, R., J. Robinson and S. Cohen. 2003. Climate change and sustainable development: expanding the options. Climate Policy, 3S1, S19-S40.

Cohen, S. and T. Neale (eds.). 2003. Expanding the dialogue on climate change & water management in the Okanagan Basin, British Columbia. Interim Report, Project A463/433, submitted to Climate Change Action Fund, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, 150 pp.

Cohen, S.J. 2003. Impacts of Climate Change. In Handbook of Weather Climate and Water: Atmospheric Chemistry, Hydrology and Societal Impacts [T.D. Potter and B.R. Colman, (eds.)], John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, Chapter 50, 903-911.

Cohen, S. 2003. Adaptation to Climate Change. In Transportation & Climate Change in Manitoba – 2003 Workshop [K. Abdel-Hay, B. Harrison, S. Turriff and C. van Rosmalen (eds.)], University of Manitoba Transport Institute, Winnipeg, 47-61.

Cohen, S.J. 2002. Challenges and opportunities for scientist-stakeholder collaboration in integrated assessment of climate change. In: Implementing Sustainable Development. Integrated Assessment and Participatory Decision Making Processes [Abaza, H. and A. Baranzini (eds.)], Edward Elgar Pub. Ltd., London, 155-181.

Cohen, S.J. 2001. Integration, synthesis, and the role of stakeholders in regional impact studies of climate change in the circumpolar North. In Lange, M.A. (Ed.), IRISEN—Integrated Regional Impact Studies in the European North. Proceedings of an Advanced Study Course at Abisko Research Station, Sweden, July 4-16, 1999. Institute for Geophysics, University of Munster, Munster Germany, 253-259.

Cohen, S. and T. Kulkarni (eds.). 2001. Water management & climate change in the Okanagan Basin. Final Report, Project A206, submitted to Climate Change Action Fund, Natural Resources Canada. Environment Canada and University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 75 pp.

Cohen, S., K. Miller, K. Duncan, E. Gregorich, P. Groffman, P. Kovacs, V. Magaña, D. McKnight, E. Mills, and D. Schimel, 2001: North America. In: Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [McCarthy, J., O. Canziani, N. Leary, D. Dokken, and K. White (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, 735-800.

Downing, T.E., R. Butterfield, S. Cohen, S. Huq, R. Moss, A. Rahman, Y. Sokona and L. Stephen. 2001. Vulnerability indices: climate change impacts and adaptation. Policy Series 3, United Nations Environment Programme.

Clark, W.C., J. Jaeger, R. Correll, R. Kasperson, J.J. McCarthy, D. Cash, S.J. Cohen, P. Desanker, N.M. Dickson, P. Epstein, P.H. Guston, J.M. Hall, C. Jaeger, A. Janetos, N. Leary, M.A. Levy, A. Luers, M. MacCracken, J. Melillo, R. Moss, J.M. Nigg, M.L. Parry, E.A. Parson, J.C. Ribot, H. Schellenhuber, D.P. Schrag, G.A. Seilstad, E. Shea, C. Vogel and T.J. Wilbanks. 2000. Assessing Vulnerability to Global
Environmental Risks. Report of the Workshop on Vulnerability to Global Environmental Change: Challenges for Research, Assessment and Decision Making. Airlie House, Warrenton Virginia (December 2000). Belfer Centre for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge.
Cohen, S.J. 2000. Adaptation to climate change in the Yukon: Starting the dialogue. In Northern Climate Exchange Workshop—Taking Action on Climate Change in the Yukon. Workshop Proceedings, May 15-17, 2000, Northern Climate Exchange, Yukon College, Whitehorse, Appendix B.

Cohen, S.J., K.A. Miller, A.F. Hamlet, and W. Avis. 2000. Climate change and resource management in the Columbia River Basin. Water International, 25, 2, 253-272.

Yin, Y., S.J. Cohen and G.H. Huang. 2000. Global climate change and regional sustainable development: the case of the Mackenzie Basin in Canada. Integrated Assessment, 1, 21-36.

Cohen, S.J. 1999. Participation in integrated assessment. Tiempo, 34, 3-5.

Lange, M.A., S.J. Cohen and P. Kuhry. 1999. Integrated global change impact studies in the Arctic: the role of stakeholders. Polar Research, 18, 2, 389-396.

Cohen, S.J. 1999. Out of the lab and into the frying pan: the need for broader conversations about climatic change. Climatic Change, 41, 265-270.

Cohen, S.J., D. Demeritt, J. Robinson, and D. Rothman. 1998. Climate change and sustainable development: towards dialogue. Global Environmental Change, 8, 4, 341-371.

Cohen, S.J., R.S.J. Tol, and A. Magalhaes. 1998. Integration. In: Feenstra, J.F., I. Burton, J.B. Smith and R.S.J. Tol, eds., Handbook on Methods for Climate Change Impact Assessment and Adaptation Strategies, Version 2.0, United Nations Environment Programme and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 4-1 to 4-20.

Huang, G.H., S.J. Cohen, Y.Y. Yin, and B. Bass. 1998. Land resources adaptation planning under changing climate—a study for the Mackenzie Basin. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 24, 95-119.

Cohen, S.J. 1997. Scientist-stakeholder collaboration in integrated assessment of climate change: lessons from a case study of Northwest Canada. Environmental Modelling and Assessment, 2 (4), 281-293.

Cohen, S.J. 1997. What if and so what in Northwest Canada: could climate change make a difference to the future of the Mackenzie Basin. Arctic, 50, 293-307.

Cohen, S.J. (ed.) 1997. Mackenzie Basin Impact Study (MBIS) Final Report. Environment Canada, Downsview, 372 pp.

Cohen, S.J. ,K.M. Strzepek and D.M. Yates. 1996. Climate change and water balance components. In Kaczmarek, Z., K.M. Strzepek, L. Somlyody and V. Priazhinskaya (eds.) Water Resources Management in the Face of Climatic/Hydrologic Uncertainties, Kluwer, Dordrecht, and International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, 30-45.

G.H. Huang, S.J. Cohen, Y.Y. Yin and B. Bass. 1996. Incorporation of inexact dynamic optimization with fuzzy relation analysis for integrated climate change impact study. Journal of Environmental Management, 48, 45-68.
Cohen, S.J. 1996. Integrated assessment of global climatic change: lessons from the Mackenzie Basin Impact Study (MBIS). Global and Planetary Change, 11, 179-185.

Cohen, S.J. 1995. An interdisciplinary assessment of climate change on northern ecosystems: the Mackenzie Basin Impact Study (MBIS). In Peterson, D.L. and D.R. Johnson (eds.), Human Ecology and Climate Change: People and Resources in the Far North, Taylor & Francis, Bristol, USA, 301-316.

Cohen, S.J. 1995 Introduction to climate impacts assessment. In Oliver, H.R. and S.A. Oliver (eds.), The Role of Water and the Hydrological Cycle in Global Change. NATO ASI Series, Vol. I 31, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 373-388.

Cohen, S.J. 1995. Potential changes to hydrological systems. In Oliver, H.R. and S.A. Oliver (eds.), The Role of Water and the Hydrological Cycle in Global Change. NATO ASI Series, Vol. I 31, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 409-428.

Cohen, S.J. 1995 The potential effects of climate change in the Peace, Athabasca and Slave River Basins: a discussion paper. Northern River Basins Study Project Report No. 65, Northern River Basins Study, Edmonton.
Cohen, S.J. (ed.) 1994. Mackenzie Basin Impact Study (MBIS)—Interim Report #2. Environment Canada, Downsview, 485 pp.

Cohen, S.J. , T.A. Agnew, A. Headley, P.Y.T. Louie, J. Reycraft and W. Skinner. 1994. Climate Variability and Implications for the Future of the Hudson Bay Bioregion. Hudson Bay Programme, Canadian Arctic Resources Committee, Ottawa, and the Municipality of Sanikiluaq.

Cohen, S.J.1994. Integrated assessment of long term climatic change. In Munn, R.E. (ed.), Keeping Ahead: The Inclusion of Long-Term Futures in Cumulative Environmental Assessments. Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Toronto, Environmental Monograph No. 11, CEA 9129G-31, 115-128.

Yin, Y. and S.J. Cohen. 1994. Identifying regional policy concerns associated with global climate change. Global Environmental Change, 4, 246-260.

Yin, Y. , S.J. Cohen and P. Gong. 1994. An integrated database for climate change impact assessment. CanadianJournal of Remote Sensing, 20, 4, 426-434.

Burton, I. and S.J. Cohen. 1993. Adapting to global warming: regional options. In Magalhaes, A.R. and A.F. Bezerra (eds.): Proceedings of the International Conference on the Impacts of Climatic Variations and Sustainable Development in the Semi-Arid Regions, a Contribution to UNCED. Esquel Brazil Foundation, Brasilia, Brazil, 871-886.

Cohen, S.J. 1993. Implications of climate change for water resources management. In A Regional Response to Global Climate Change: New England and Eastern Canada. Proceedings of a U.S./Canada symposium held May 19-21, 1993, Portland, Maine. Water Resources Program, University of Maine, 64-71.

Cohen, S.J. (ed.) 1993. Mackenzie Basin Impact Study (MBIS) Interim Report #1. Environment Canada, Edmonton, 163 pp.

Cohen, S.J.1993. Climate change and climate impacts: Please don't confuse the two! Global Environmental Change, 3, 2-6.

Cohen, S.J.1992. Impacts of global warming in an Arctic watershed. Canadian Water Resources Journal, 17, 55-62.

Cohen, S.J.1992. Possible impacts on water resources in the Great Lakes and the Saskatchewan River Sub-basin. In Woo, M.K. (ed.), Focus: Assessing the regional impacts of global warming. The Canadian Geographer, 36, 69-72.

Cohen, S.J.1991. Possible impacts of climatic warming scenarios on water resources in the Saskatchewan River Sub-basin, Canada. Climatic Change, 19, 3, 291-317.

Cohen, S.J.1990. Bringing the global warming issue closer to home: The challenge of regional impact studies. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 71, 520-526.

Cohen, S.J.1990. Repercussions du réchauffement prévu du globe au Québec. Le Climat, 8, 6-12.

Cohen, S.J. 1988. Great Lakes levels and climatic change: impacts, responses and futures. In Glantz, M.H. (ed.), Societal Responses to Regional Climatic Change: Forecasting by Analogy. Westview Press, Boulder, 143-167.

Cohen, S.J. and T.R. Allsopp. 1988. The potential impacts of a scenario of CO2-induced climatic change on Ontario, Canada. Journal of Climate, 1, 7, 669-681.

Cohen, S.J. 1987. Influences of past and future climates on the Great Lakes region of North America. Water International, 12, 4, 163-169.

Bhartendu, S. and S.J. Cohen, 1987. Impact of CO2-induced climate change on residential heating and cooling energy requirements in Ontario Canada. Energy and Buildings, 10, 99-108.

Cohen, S.J. 1987. Projected increases in municipal water use in the Great Lakes due to CO2-induced climatic change. Water Resources Bulletin, 23, 1, 91-101.

Cohen, S.J. 1986 Climatic change, population growth, and their effects on Great Lakes water supplies. Professional Geographer, 38, 317-323.

Cohen, S.J. 1986 Impacts of CO2-induced climatic change on water resources in the Great Lakes basin. Climatic Change, 8, 2, 135-153.

Cohen, S.J. 1985 Effects of climatic variations on water withdrawals in Metropolitan Toronto. Canadian Geographer, 29, 2, 113-122.

Pulwarty, R.S. and S.J. Cohen. 1984. Possible effects of CO2-induced climatic change on the world food system: A review. Climatological Bulletin, 18, 2, 33-48.

Cohen, S.J. 1983 Classification of 500-mb. height anomalies using obliquely rotated principal components. Journal of Climate and Applied Meteorology, 22, 1975-1988.

Cohen, S.J. 1982 Climatology in Canada: A look forward. Climatological Bulletin, No. 32, 1-8.

Cohen, S.J. 1981 User oriented climatic information for planning a snow removal budget. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 20, 1420-1427.

Cohen, S.J. 1980 Some effects of short term climatic oscillations on the Illinois construction industry. Geographical Survey, 9, 3, 28-37.

Cohen, S.J. 1980 Soil moisture variations under rural surface covers at Ellerslie, Alberta. Canadian Journal of Soil Science, 60, 613-623.

Yongyuan Yin

Refereed Journal Papers:
Yin, Y.Y., Zhou, S.Q. and Xu, W. 2007. “Linking carbon sequestration science with local sustainability: an integrated assessment (IA) approach” J. of Environmental Management, 85(3): 711-721.

Xu, W., Yin, Y.Y. and Zhou, S.Q. 2007. “Social and economic impacts of carbon sequestration and land use change on peasant households in rural China: a case study of Liping, Guizhou Province” J. of Environmental Management, 85(3): 736-745.

Zhou, S.Q., Yin, Y.Y., Xu, W., Caldwell I., Kang, N., Ji, Z.W. and Wang, J. 2007. “The costs and benefits of reforestation in Liping County, Guizhou Province, China” J. of Environmental Management, 85(3): 722-735.

Luo, B., Huang, G.H., Zou, Y.and Yin, Y.Y. 2007. “Toward quantifying the effectiveness of water trading under uncertainty” Journal of Environmental Management, Volume 83(2): 181-190.

Chen, J.M.., Thomas, Sean and Yin, Y.Y. 2007. “Enhancing forest carbon sequestration in China: Toward an integration of scientific and socio-economic perspectives” J. of Environmental Management, 85(3): 515-521.

Wang, C.M., Ouyang, H., Maclaren, V., Yin, Y.Y., Shao, B., Boland, A. and Tian, Y.Q. 2007. “Evaluation of the economic and environmental impact of converting cropland to forest: a case study in Dunhua County, China” J. of Environmental Management, 85(3): 746-756.

Caldwell, I., Maclaren, V., Chen, J.M., Ju, W.M., Zhou, S. and Yin, Y. 2007. “An integrated assessment model of carbon sequestration benefits: a case study of Liping County, China” J. of Environmental Management, 85(3): 757-773.

Peng, H., Cheng, G.D., Xu, Z.M., Yin, Y.Y. and Xu, W. 2007. “Social, economic and ecological impacts of the “grain for green” project in China: a preliminary case in Zhangye, northwest China” J. of Environmental Management, 85(3): 774-784.

Yin, Y.Y. and Xu, W. 2006. “Linking forest carbon sequestration decision making with local livelihood” J. of Subtropical Resources and Environment 1(1): 51-62.
Luo, B., Maqsood, I., Huang, G.H., Yin, Y.Y. and Han, D.J. 2005. “An inexact fuzzy two-stage stochastic for quantify the efficiency of non-point source effluent trading under uncertainty”, Science of the Total Environment, 347: 21– 34.

Zou, Y., Luo, B., Yin, Y.Y. and Huang, G.H. 2005. “Uncertain analysis for water rights trading in agricultural systems” J. of Ecological Economics 3(2): 120-127. (in Chinese with English abstract)

Yin, Y.Y. 2004. “Methods to link climate impacts and regional sustainability” J. of Environmental Informatics 2(1): 1-10.

Yin, Y.Y. 2004. “A comprehensive assessment of vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in western areas of China (AS25 Project)”. World Environment 3: 23-25. (in Chinese)

Luo, B., Yin, Y.Y., Huang, G.H. and Huang, Y.F. 2004. “Uncertainty analysis for distribution of greenhouse gases concentration in atmosphere”, Journal of Environmental Informatics, 3(2): 89-94.

Luo, B., Maqsood, I., Yin, Y.Y., Huang, G.H. and Cohen, S. 2003. “Adaptation to climate change through water trading under uncertainty – an inexact two-stage nonlinear programming approach”, Journal of Environmental Informatics, 2(2): 58-68.

Zeng, G.M., Yuan, X.Z., Yin, Y.Y. Hu, T.J. and Yan. G. 2003. “Manufacture of liquid fuel by catalytic cracking waste plastics in fluidized bed” Energy Sources 15(6): 577-590.

Xu, Z.M., Cheng, G.D., Zhang, Z.Q. Templet, P.H. and Yin, Y.Y. 2003. “The calculation and analysis of ecological footprints, diversity and development capacity of China”, J. of Geographical Sciences 13(1): 19-26. (in Chinese with English abstract)

Yin, Y.Y., Huang, Y.F. and Huang, G. H. 2002. “An integrated approach for evaluating adaptation options to reduce climate change vulnerability in coastal region of the Georgia Basin” GIS Science. 8(2): 86-96.

Yin, Y.Y. 2002. “Adaptation evaluation tools and analysis methods for climate change” J. of Glaciology and Geocryology 24(4): 426-432.

Yin, Y. 2001. "Flood management and water resource sustainable development: the case of Great Lakes Basin" Water International 26(2): 197-205.

Zeng, G.M., Yuan, X.Z., Yin, Y.Y. and Yang, C.P. 2001.  “A two-dimensional water quality modeling for a winding and topographically complicated river” J. of Environmental Management 61: 113-121.

Wang, Guixin and Yin, Y., 2001. “Population and sustainability priority indicators for Shanghai” Population Research (supplement), (in Chinese).

Guo, H.C., L. Liu, G. H. Huang, R. Zou, and Y.Y. Yin, 2001. “A system dynamics approach for watershed environmental management planning” J. of Environmental Management 61: 93-111.

Yin, Y., Cohen, S., and Huang, G. 2000. “Global climate change and regional sustainable development: the case of Mackenzie Basin in Canada” Integrated Assessment 1: 21-36.

Wang, Guixin and Yin, Y., 2000. “Smaller families, aging population, and urban sustainability in Shanghai” Population Research (The Aging Population in China) (supplement), (in Chinese).

Yin, Y., Huang, G., and Hipel, K.W. 1999. “Fuzzy relation analysis for multicriteria water resources management” ASCE J. of Water Resources Management and Planning 125 (1): 41-47.

Yin, Y., Miao, Q. and Tian G. (eds.) 1999. Climate Change Impact Assessment and Sustainable Regional Development in the Yangtze Delta. Journal of Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, 22 (supplement).

Yin, Y. 1999. “An integrated approach for regional climate change impact assessment and response option evaluation for the Yangtze Delta in China” Journal of Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, 22 (supplement): 449-463.

Yin, Y. 1999. “Impact of global climate change on regional sustainable development: discussion of research methods” Journal of Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, 22 (supplement): 464-471.

Miao, Q.L., Tian, G.S., and Yin, Y.Y. 1999. “An integrated assessment for climate change impact and adaptation strategies for the Yangtze Delta” Journal of Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, 22 (supplement): 479-485.

Zhou, S.Q., Yin, Y., Miao, Q.L. and Tian, G.S. 1999 “A regional assessment model of climate change impacts on environment and economy, and its verification” Journal of Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, 22 (supplement): 486-492.

Zhou, S.Q., Miao, Q.L., Yin, Y.Y. and Tian, G.S. 1999. “The parameter scheme and prediction of the regional climate change impact assessment model for the Yangtze Delta” Journal of Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, 22 (supplement): 493-499.

Zhou, S.Q., Tian, G.S., Miao, Q.L. and Yin, Y.Y. 1999. “Climate change impact on the future environment and economy in the Yangtze Delta” Journal of Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, 22 (supplement): 500-505.

Zhou, S.Q., Miao, Q.L., Yin, Y.Y. and Tian, G.S. 1999. “Quantitative study on adaptation strategies of environmental economics for climate change” Journal of Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, 22 (supplement): 506-512.

Huang, G.H., Liu, L., Chakma, A., Wang, X. H. and Yin, Y.Y. 1999. “A hybrid GIS-supported watershed modelling system: application to the Lake Erhai Basin, China” Hydrological Science. 44(4): 597-610.

Miao, Q.L., Zhou, Z.Q., Yin, Y.Y. and Wu, J. 1999. “Features of the maximum temperature change in near half of  century in China” Scientia Meteorologica Sinica. 18 (2): 103-112.

Huang, G.H., Cohen, S. J., Yin, Y.Y. and Bass, B. 1998. “Land resources planning under changing climate – a study for the Mackenzie basin” Resources, Conservation and Recycling 24: 95-119.

Huang, G., Cohen, S., Yin, Y., and Bass, B. 1996. "Incorporation of inexact dynamic optimization with fuzzy relation analysis for integrated climate-change impact study”. J. of Environmental Management 48: 45-68.

Yin, Y. 1996. Book Review “Losing Asia: Modernization and the Culture of Development. by Bret Wallach. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. xiii, 237 pp. Plates, sources, index and notes. US$26.95” Journal of Oriental Studies. 34 (2): 374-377.

Yin, Y.Y., Pierce, J.T. and Love, E. 1995. "Designing a multisector model for land conversion study". J. of Environmental Management 44: 249-266.

Yin, Y.Y., Gong, P. and Cohen, S. 1994. "An integrated database for climate change impact assessment". Canadian J. of Remote Sensing 20 (4): 426-434.

Yin, Y.Y. and Cohen, S. 1994. "Identifying regional policy concerns associated with global climate change". Global Environmental Change 4 (3): 245-260.

Yin, Y.Y. and Pierce, J. 1993. "Integrated resource assessment and sustainable land use". Environmental Management  17 (3): 319-327.

Yin, Y.Y. and Pierce, J. 1993. "A research framework for integrated rural land use". J. of Rural Studies 9 (1): 89-98.

Yin, Y.Y. and Xu, X. 1991. "Applying neural net technology for multi objective land use planning". J. of Environmental Management  32: 349 356.

Smit, B., Brklacich, M., McBride, R., Yin, Y. and Bond, D. 1988. "Assessing implications of soil erosion for future food production: a Canadian example". Geoforum 19 (2): 245 259.

Refereed Chapters in Books:
Yin, Y.Y., Xu, Z.M. and Long, A.H. 2007. Chapter 12 Evaluation of Adaptation Options for the Heihe River Basin of China. In: Neil Leary et al., (eds.) Climate Change and Adaptation. Earthscan.

Yin, Y.Y., Clinton, N., Luo, B. and Song, L.C. 2007. Chapter 5 Resource System Vulnerability to Climate Stresses in the Heihe River Basin of western China. In: Neil Leary et al., (eds.) Climate Change and Vulnerability. Earthscan

Yin, Y.Y., Gong, Peng and Ding, Y.H. 2007. Chapter 23, Assessment of Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change in Western China. In: Congbin Fu (ed.) Changes in the Human-Monsoon System of East Asia in the Context of Global Change. Island Press.

Yin, Y.Y. 2007. Chapter 15 Case study: climate change and regional sustainability in the Yangtze Delta, China. In: C. Gregory Knight and Jill Jäger (eds.) Integrated Regional Assessment: Challenges and Case Studies, A START/CIRA/IHDP Book, Cambridge University Press.

Yin, Y.Y. 2005. “The AS25 Project: Methodologies and Research Activities” In: A. Fenech, D. MacIver, H. Auld, B. Rong, and Y.Y. Yin, (eds.) Climate Change: Building the Adaptive Capacity. Environment Canada, Toronto, Ontario.

He, Y.Q., Yin, Y.Y., Zhang, D., Yao, T.D., Yang, M.X., Zhang, Z.L., Pang, H.X. Gu, J. and Lu, A.G. “Studies on Climate and Glacial System: Mt. Yulong, China” In: A. Fenech, D. MacIver, H. Auld, B. Rong, and Y.Y. Yin, (eds.) Climate Change: Building the Adaptive Capacity. Environment Canada, Toronto, Ontario. 426p.

Clinton, N., Yin, Y.Y. and Gong, P. 2005. “Geographic Allocation of Vulnerability Indicators in the Heihe Basin: Methodology” In: A. Fenech, D. MacIver, H. Auld, B. Rong, and Y.Y. Yin, (eds.) Climate Change: Building the Adaptive Capacity. Environment Canada, Toronto, Ontario. 426p.

Rong, B., Ma, S.M., Lin, E.D. and Yin, Y.Y. “Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change in the Agriculture of Northeastern China” In: A. Fenech, D. MacIver, H. Auld, B. Rong, and Y.Y. Yin, (eds.) Climate Change: Building the Adaptive Capacity. Environment Canada, Toronto, Ontario. 426p.

Fenech, A., Rong, B., MacIver, D., Yin, Y.Y., and Auld, H. “Chapter 1 Climate Change: Building the Adaptive Capacity” In: A. Fenech, D. MacIver, H. Auld, B. Rong, and Y.Y. Yin, (eds.) Climate Change: Building the Adaptive Capacity. Environment Canada, Toronto, Ontario. 426p.

Fenech, A., MacIver, D., Auld, H., Rong, B. and Yin, Y.Y. (eds.) Climate Change: Building the Adaptive Capacity. Environment Canada. Toronto, Ontario. 426p.

Yin, Y.Y. and Wang, Guixin, 2004. Global Climate Change Impact Assessment: Methods  and Applications. High Education Press, Beijing, China.

Yin, Y., Miao, Q.L. and Tian, G.S. 2003. Climate Change and Regional Sustainable Development: A Case in the Changjiang Delta of China. Sciences Press New York Ltd., New York.

Yin, Y. and Wang, Guixin, 2003. Shanghai: Population Planning and Urban Sustainability, in Theme 1.18 Human Settlement Development, edited by Sassen, S. and Marcotullio, P. Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Developed under the auspices of the UNESCO, Eolss Publishers, Oxford, UK,   [http://www.eolss.net]

Wang, Guixin and Yin, Y., 2000. Shanghai: Population Planning and Urban Sustainability. Shanghai Financial University Press, Shanghai, China (in Chinese).

Yin, Y. and Mark Wang, 1999. “Chapter 8: China’s Urban Environmental Sustainability in a Global Context” In: R. Lidskog, N. Low, B. Gleeson, and I. Elander (eds.) Consuming Cities: The Urban Environment in the Global Economy after Rio. Routledge, London, U.K. (ISBN/ISSN: 0-415-18768-0).

Yin, Y. and Hipel, K.W. 1994. "Fuzzy multi-criteria decision making model with application to the Great Lakes water levels problem". In: K.W. Hipel and L. Fang (eds.) Effective Environmental Management for Sustainable Development. Kluwer Academic Publishers. Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

Huang, G., Yin, Y. Cohen, S. and Bass, B. 1994. "Interval parameter modelling to generate alternatives: a software for environmental decision-making under uncertainty". In: P. Zannetti (ed.) Computing Techniques in Environmental Studies V, Vol. II: Environmental Systems. Computational Mechanics Publications, Boston, MA, USA.

Gong, P. and Yin, Y.Y. 1994. "Large-area mapping for global change studies: multitemporal image processing and pattern recognition". Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Symposium on Geographic Information Systems in Forestry, Environmental and Natural Resource Management. Vancouver, Canada.

Bass, B., Huang, G., Yin, Y.Y. and Cohen, S. 1994. "Grey theory approach to quantifying the risks associated with general circulation models". In: K.W. Hipel (ed.) Time Series Analysis and Forecasting. Kluwer Academic Publishers. Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

Yin, Y.Y. and Pierce, J. 1991. "Multiple goal assessment for land resource development: the case of British Columbia". In: van Oort, G.M.R.A., van den Berg, L.M., Groenendijk, J.G. and Kempers, A.H.H.M. (eds.) Limits to Rural Land Use.  pp. 16-23. Pudoc, Wageningen.

Yin, Y.Y. and Xu, X. 1990 "A neural network for forest management". Proceedings of the GIS90 Symposium. March 13 16. Vancouver. Forestry Canada.

Yin, Y.Y. and Pierce, J. 1988. "Carrying capacity of land: a conceptual framework". In: Leszek A. Kosinski, W.R. Derrick Sewell and C. Wu (eds.) Land and Water Management: Chinese and Canadian Perspectives. pp. 159-173. Edmonton, Alberta.

Robin Bing Rong

Rong, B., Ma SM, Lin ED, and Yin YY 2005. Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change on Agriculture in The Northeastern China. In the proceedings of the Workshop “Climate Change: Building the Adaptive Capacity” (Edited by: Adam Fenech, Don MacIver, Heather Auld, Robin Bing Rong, and Yongyuan Yin). Adaptation and Impacts Research Group (AIRG), Environment Canada, 153-168pp.

Rong, B., 2004. ‘Climate Change in Northeast China - Impacts and adaptation’. Canada-China Cooperation in Climate Change project (C5) report, October, 2005

Livia Bizikova

Nijink, M. and Bizikova L., 2007. Responding to the Kyoto Protocol through forestry: a comparison of opportunities for several countries in Europe. Forest Policy and Economics, accepted.

Bizikova L., Robinson J. and S. Cohen, 2007. Linking climate change and sustainable development at the local level. Editorial. Climate Policy 7, accepted.

Burton, I, Bizikova, L., Howard Y., 2007. Upscaling the results of local research on adaptation, mitigation and sustainable development. Climate Policy, in press.

Bizikova, L., S. Burch, S. Cohen, and J. Robinson, 2007. Climate change and sustainable development in a local context: Linking research and policy. Global Environmental Change, under review, GEC-D-06-00100.

Nijnik, M. and Bizikova L., 2007. The European Union sustainable forest management and climate change mitigation policies from a transition countries perspective. In: Sustainable Forestry: From Monitoring and Modelling to Knowledge Management and Policy Science, Reynolds K., (ed.). CAB International publishing, 56 –73.

Bizikova, L. and Zajickova Z., 2007. Cost of adaptation in agriculture. In: F. Bosello, O. Kuik, R. Tol, P. Watkiss, Costs of Adaptation to climate change: a review of assessment studies with a focus on methodologies used, Final report, European Environmental Agency, Copenhagen, pp. 138.

Bizikova, L. and F. Tubiello, 2007. Opportunities for Land-based Carbon Sequestration in Slovakia.  International Institute for Applied System Analyses, Vienna. Interim report, IR-07-028.

Bizikova, L. and Friedl B., 2006. The Economic assessment of the Influence of Property Rights on Management in the Forestry Sector - Theoretical Approach, Journal of Economics, 10: 983 –993.

Bizikova, L. and Bhadwal S., 2006. Global Environmental Change, Gender and Human Security. IHDP – Up-date (Bonn), no. 1/2006, pp. 21 – 23, www.ihdp.org.

Bizikova L. and Cohen S., 2006. Climate change adaptation, mitigation and linkages with sustainable development. International workshop, final report, April 19 – 21, Vancouver. Adaptation and Impacts Research Division, Environment Canada and Institute For Resources, Environment And Sustainability, UBC, Vancouver

Bizikova, L. and Bhadwal S., 2006. Global Environmental Change,Gender and Human Security. IHDP – Up-date (Bonn), no. 1/2006, pp. 21 – 23, www.ihdp.org.

Bizikova, L., 2005. Climate change mitigation policies with focus on land-use in transition countries . IHDP – Udate (Bonn) vol. 3.: 3.

Tina Neale

Neale, T., J. Carmichael and S. Cohen. Submitted. Urban water futures: A multivariate analysis of population growth and climate change impacts on urban water demand in the Okanagan Basin, BC. Canadian Water Resources Journal.

Neale, T.  2005.  Impacts of Climate Change and Population Growth on Residential Water Demand in the Okanagan Basin, British Columbia.  Unpublished MA Thesis.  Victoria, British Columbia: Royal Roads University.  103 pp.

Koshida, G., T. Neale, S. Cohen and A. Hebb.  Eds.  2006.  Water Availability Standards for Canadian Agriculture, Pilot Watershed Study of the National Agri-Environmental Standards Initiative, Water Availability Standard.  Downsview, Ontario: Environment Canada.