TY - JOUR AU - Leemans, R. AB - Climatic Change (2008) 87:1–6 DOI 10.1007/s10584-007-9368-7 BALANCE: an attempt to assess climate change impacts in the Barents Sea Region M. A. Lange & H. Roderfeld & R. Leemans Received: 13 November 2007 /Accepted: 13 November 2007 / Published online: 22 December 2007 Springer Science + Business Media B.V. 2007 1 Introduction The term climate change (and also the broader term global change that includes climate change) has today almost become a common household term. Most people can relate one way or the other to varying climate conditions and what they may mean to them. However, it is usually not before some “bad weather” hits a region that people start to realize that climate, climate variability and climate change may have very concrete consequences for their daily life. No later than at this point, questions are raised about the more concrete causes and consequences of climate change. And these questions are equally asked and discussed by politicians, the business community and the public at large. It is these questions that have driven climate science for the last few decades. While the initial emphasis has been on the “global picture,” there has been an increasing urge to narrow the focus down TI - BALANCE: an attempt to assess climate change impacts in the Barents Sea Region JF - Climatic Change DO - 10.1007/s10584-007-9368-7 DA - 2007-12-22 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/balance-an-attempt-to-assess-climate-change-impacts-in-the-barents-sea-lvFJIF00Pe SP - 1 EP - 6 VL - 87 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -