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This book provides an interdisciplinary view of how to prepare the ecological and socio-economic systems to the reality of climate change. Scientifically sound tools are needed to predict its effects on regional, rather than global, scales, as it is the level at which socio-economic plans are designed and natural ecosystem reacts. The first section of this book describes a series of methods and models to downscale the global predictions of climate change, estimate its effects on biophysical systems and monitor the changes as they occur | CLIMATE CHANGE -RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY FOR ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION Edited by Juan Blanco and Houshang Kheradmand Climate Change - Research and Technology for Adaptation and Mitigation Edited by Juan Blanco and Houshang Kheradmand Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9 51000 Rijeka Croatia Copyright 2011 InTech All chapters are Open Access articles distributed under the Creative Commons Non Commercial Share Alike Attribution license which permits to copy distribute transmit and adapt the work in any medium so long as the original work is properly cited. After this work has been published by InTech authors have the right to republish it in whole or part in any publication of which they are the author and to make other personal use of the work. Any republication referencing or personal use of the work must explicitly identify the original source. Statements and opinions expressed in the chapters are these of the individual contributors and not necessarily those of the editors or publisher. No responsibility is accepted for the accuracy of information contained in the published articles. The publisher assumes no responsibility for any damage or injury to persons or property arising out of the use of any materials instructions methods or ideas contained in the book. Publishing Process Manager Iva Lipovic Technical Editor Teodora Smiljanic Cover Designer Jan Hyrat Image Copyright Igumnova Irina 2010. Used under license from First published August 2011 Printed in Croatia A free online edition of this book is available at Additional hard copies can be obtained from orders@ Climate Change - Research and Technology for Adaptation and Mitigation Edited by Juan Blanco and Houshang Kheradmand p. cm. ISBN 978-953-307-621-8 ikrrr iJ OPEN ACCESS INI Cvn PUBLISHER INTECH open free online editions of InTech Books and Journals can be found at .