ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a comprehensive list of those impacts, clarifying the distinct challenges suburban regions face. Within the climate change literature, attention to suburban areas generally focuses on their contributions to land use change and global greenhouse gas emissions. This chapter examines how climate change vulnerabilities and impacts vary across a diversity of suburban community types, and identifies critical issues for further research on climate change in suburban regions. It investigates of economic vulnerabilities to climate change within the US state of New Jersey. The chapter illustrates how key vulnerabilities and impacts associated with climate change vary across different types of suburban settlement zones. Climate vulnerabilities within medium-density suburbs are deeply intertwined with settlement patterns and with the long-term pressures they place on ecosystem services. Climate change also could impact lucrative ecotourism and outdoor winter recreation businesses present in exurban communities.
