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Climate change impacts, vulnerabilities and opportunities analysis of the marine Atlantic Basin /

15 Jan 2014

In 2011, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) initiated the national Aquatic Climate Change Adaptation Services Program (ACCASP). The main objectives are to increase our understanding of the effects of climate change on aquatic systems, assess the risks to delivery of DFO's mandate, and develop climate change adaptation tools for DFO sectors. The first step was to assess the impact and probability of six previously identified climate change risks to the delivery of DFO's services to Canadians. This present report contains up-to-date information available on impacts of climate change on marine life, DFO infrastructure and on how DFO delivers emergency services in the Atlantic Basin. This report was dependent on, and is a companion to, numerous reports on the physical "Trends and Projections" of key oceanographic variables in the Atlantic Basin (listed in Appendix). The entire body of work (Trends and Projections analyses, Impacts, Vulnerabilities and Opportunities analyses) is a clear and strong demonstration of the importance of monitoring programs to our understanding, and to the delivery of DFO's mandate through evidence-based decision-making. The body of work formed the basis for a succinct CSAS Risk Assessment (http://www.dfompo.gc.ca/csas-sccs/Publications/ScR-RS/2012/2012_044-eng.html) which was used to design research projects needed to fill gaps in our understanding, as well as to identify applied science-based tools to enable climate change adaptation.
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Authors

Shackell, Nancy, Greenan, Blair J. W, Pépin, Pierre

Pages
382
Published in
Ottawa, Ontario

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