Climate Change 2001:
Working Group II: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
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Figure 5-1: Generalized diagram of the state of specific goods and services that ecosystems provide; how these goods and services are affected by the multiple pressures of climate change and human activities; and how the system responds (autonomous adaptation as in Chapter 19), thus affecting the provision of goods and services. Adaptation options reduce the impacts and thus change the vulnerability of the system.

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