The impacts of climate change in Aquitaine: a scientific assessment.

Summary What will be the impact of climate change on the scale of Aquitaine? How would a global warming of several degrees affect its landscapes and resources? What would be the prospects for adaptation of the environment and humans? These are the questions that the work directed by Hervé Le Treut, climatologist, member of the French Academy of Sciences and expert to the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) attempts to answer, relying on the collaboration of more than 150 researchers from all disciplines. The authors reflect on the future of Aquitaine and its vulnerability to climate change, considering the likely consequences on the economy (agriculture, viticulture, forests, etc.), the landscape (coastline, mountains, estuaries, forests, etc.) and the population. Through the Aquitaine region, this book describes the main issues that need to be addressed now. Richly illustrated and accessible to all, this book gives an overall vision, but anchored locally, of the impacts of climate change and recommends solutions, ways to be favored so that Aquitaine societies can adapt to these changes.