But, as Heather Coleman, the manager of climate-change policy at Oxfam America, told me, "The planet can't stand another five or six more Chinas".
This means funding more research that involves both commercial and recreational fishermen and helps managers understand the impacts of climate change on fisheries.
Brad Hurley is a writer, editor, and project manager working in the areas of climate change communication and children's environmental health.
We saw that among some forest managers, the uncertainties and ambiguities of climate change knowledge resulted, on one hand, in rather passive attitudes and even scepticism amongst forest managers towards scientific knowledge and European conservation policies.
The best tool for helping (not entirely solving) the problem is to develop industry-specific scenarios that help managers quantify the longer-term impacts of climate change on their specific situation so that they can make intelligent and prudent risk-adjusted decisions.
Are managers particularly concerned about the impacts of climate change on their businesses?
Although there is growing evidence of climate change, natural resource managers have found it difficult to develop management and planning responses to climate change.
On the small scale, Dr. Roth said, managers can try to mitigate the impacts of climate change by making sure that reefs are protected from pollution and fishing.
To inform managers and engineers about the potential impacts of climate change on fish passage through culverts, we determined changes in bankfull width from projected changes in bankfull discharge.
Thus, successful management of natural resources in the context of climate change will require recognition on the part of managers and decisions makers of the need to cycle between "managing for resilience" and "managing for change".
