Twenty-eighth Report Adapting Institutions to Climate Change Cm ...

Contents
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Chapter 1 1
INTRODUCTION
Adaptation 1.8 2
Mitigation and adaptation 1.11 3
The scale of the challenge 1.14 4
Conclusion 1.23 5
Chapter 2 6
SETTING THE SCENE
Introduction 2.1 6
Impacts of current UK weather 2.5 6
Global climate change 2.8 7
The changing UK climate 2.16 9
Forecasting future change 2.19 10
Future UK climate 2.21 11
Possible effects of UK climate change on the exemplars,
and implications for institutional arrangements 2.38 18
Freshwater 2.39 18
Demand for water 2.44 19
Water quality 2.49 20
Drought 2.58 21
Flooding 2.61 22
The impact on water management planning 2.67 23
The coastal zone 2.68 23
Coastal squeeze 2.74 25
Coastal erosion and flooding 2.75 26
Addressing threats to the coastline 2.80 27
Biodiversity 29
Climate envelopes and their consequences 2.83 29
Alien species 2.92 31
Changes in timing of life cycles 2.95 31
Unravelling species assemblages 2.97 31
Change and loss of habitats 2.99 32
Ecosystem services 2.102 33
Maintaining the status quo will be impossible 2.103 33
Chapter 3 34
INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS
Introduction 3.1 34
Policies and programmes for climate change 3.5 34
Reporting 3.20 41
Planning regimes 3.29 44
Institutions for water, coastal erosion and nature conservation 3.45 48