IPCC NonClimate Baseline Data for MIddle East and Arid Asia
Description
Baseline information is available for the following sectors for Middle Eastand Arid Asia:Population and Human Development, Economic conditions, Land cover / Land use,Water, Agriculture / Food, Energy, Biodiversity.An evaluation of climate change impact requires the establishment of somebaseline period against which changes will be measured. Baseline data arerequired for the relevant climate variables (see Climate Baseline) and also fornon-climatic information (for example, carbon dioxide concentration, soilcharacteristics, population, income levels, etc.). Ideally, these variousbaseline datasets should all refer to the same time period, whether 1961-90averages or the 1990 value. We provide here a set of country and regional-levelindicators of socio-economic and resource variables as estimated at thebeginning of the 1990s. These data are reproduced from the IPCC report on TheRegional Impacts of Climate Change: an assessment of vulnerability published in1998 by Cambridge University Press (Appendix D). These data in turn werecollated from a variety of sources such as the World Bank, UNEP and FAO. [ This document was provided by NASA's Global Change Master Directory. For more information on the source of this metadata please visit http://gcmd.nasa.gov/r/geoss/[GCMD]IPCC_nonclimate_MiddleEast ]
Language
eng
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EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ECONOMIC RESOURCES > AGRICULTURE PRODUCTION
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EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE/MANAGEMENT > LAND MANAGEMENT > LAND USE/LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION
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EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > POPULATION > POPULATION DISTRIBUTION
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EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > POPULATION > POPULATION SIZE
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EARTH SCIENCE > TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > GROUND WATER
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EARTH SCIENCE > TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > SURFACE WATER
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EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LAND USE/LAND COVER > LAND COVER
