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Fig. 1.2: Reprinted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd [Nature]: O’Reilly, C.M. and Co-authors, 2003: Climate change decreases aquatic ecosystem productivity of Lake Tanganyika,Africa. Nature, 424, 766-768. Copyright 2003.

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Fig. 3.6: Reprinted from Lehner, B. and Co-authors, 2005: Estimating the impact of global change on flood and drought risks in Europe: a continental, integrated assessment. Climatic Change, 75, 273-299, with kind permission from Springer Science and Business Media.

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Fig. 10.3(a): From Kurihara, K. and Co-authors, 2005: Projections of climatic change over Japan due to global warming by high resolution regional climate model in MRI. SOLA, 1, 97-100. Reprinted with permission from the Meterological Society of Japan.

Fig. 10.3(b): From Japan MeteorologicalAgency, 2005: Global Warming Projection, Vol.6 - with the RCM20 and with the UCM, 58 pp. Reprinted with permission from the Japan MeteorologicalAgency.

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Table 20.1: From MA(Millennium EcosystemAssessment), 2005: Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Synthesis. Island Press,Washington, District of Columbia, 155 pp. Reprinted by  permission ofWorld Resources Institute: http://www.wri.org.

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