Economics and management of climate change risks mitigation and adaptation hansjurgens bernd antes ralf 9780387773520 books amazonca. Economics and management of climate change risks mitigation and adaptation bernd hansjurgens ralf antes 9781441926500 books amazonca. Climate change impacts will affect the economy as the nation adapts responds to stresses on water resources in the form of droughts and floods changes in agricultural and livestock production sea level rise and storm surge wildfires and ecosystem changes as well as health impacts related to heat stress diseases extreme weather events and poor air quality. The goal of mitigation is to avoid significant human interference with the climate system and stabilize greenhouse gas levels in a timeframe sufficient to allow ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate change ensure that food production is not threatened and to enable economic development to proceed in a sustainable manner from the 2014 report on mitigation of climate change from the united nations intergovernmental panel on climate change page 4