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The countries participating in the U.S. Country Studies Program are found throughout the world and represent four distinct regions: Africa, Asia-Pacific, Central and Eastern Europe, and Latin America. These regions contain mainly developing countries or countries in transition to market economies. This chapter provides an interim regional summary of research by 13 countries at various stages of completion in their vulnerability and adaptation assessments. This chapter summarizes by region the vulnerability and adaptation results that have been reported in this document. This chapter also identifies some of the common geographic, climatic, demographic, and/or socioeconomic characteristics that define the regions and influence the vulnerability of the countries within those regions to climate change. These results contribute to the literature on potential vulnerability and adaptation on climate change and are presented in a manner that will facilitate comparisons among countries in a region or between various regions. While it may be possible to identify general positive or negative trends within a region, the results are in almost all cases preliminary, caution should be used in comparing results that were developed using different methodologies, and the number of countries reporting results for each sector does not provide adequate information to assess the region as a whole.
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Huq, S., Mata, L.J., Nemesova, I., Toure, S. (1996). Regional Summary. In: Smith, J.B., Huq, S., Lenhart, S., Mata, L.J., Nemešová, I., Toure, S. (eds) Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change. Environmental Science and Technology Library, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3653-4_4
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