The focus of most climate change impact studies to date is on changes related to mean climate conditions. In terms of climate model output, these changes are more robust than changes in climate variability, the latter of which has considerably greater uncertainty. By concentrating on climate means, however, the full impacts of climate change are probably being seriously underestimated. This report discusses and illustrates how the risk and uncertainty introduced by climate change can be incorporated into reclamation planning. Two approaches to reclamation planning are described.
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