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Author : E. Lisa F. Schipper,Lisa Schipper,Ian Burton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Adaptation (Biology).
ISBN : 1844075311
First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : James D. Ford,Lea Berrang-Ford
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400705678
It is now widely accepted that adaptation will be necessary if we are to manage the risks posed by climate change. What we know about adaptation, however, is limited. While there is a well established body of scholarship proposing assessment approaches and explaining concepts, few studies have examined if and how adaptation is taking place at a national or regional level.
Author : James Adejuwon
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781849770750
'This book provides valuable lessons that will improve public policy and the quality of decisions that will affect generations to come.' Richard Moss Senior Director Climate and Energy United Nations Foundation 'An excellent addition to the body of knowledge on adaptation to climate change from the developing world which has been largely missing until now.' Saleemul Huq Director Climate Change Programme International Institute for Environment and Development 'This important volume is a valuable effort on adaptation to climate change that needs to be on the desks of those seeking coping strateg.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : OCLC:277203806
Author : Neil Leary
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1145 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136569388
'Sound and solid case studies on vulnerability and adaptation have been woefully lacking in the international discourse on climate change. This set of books begins to bridge the gap.' Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Director of United Nations Environment Programme 'Important reading for students and practitioners alike.' Martin Parry, Co-Chair, Working Group II (Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability), Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 'Fills an important gap in our understanding ... It is policy-relevant and deserves to be widely read.' Richard Klein, Senior Research Fellow, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Sweden The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded in its 2001 report that much of the developing world is highly vulnerable to adverse impacts from climate change. But the IPCC also concluded that the vulnerabilities of developing countries are too little studied and too poorly understood to enable determination of adaptation strategies that would be effective at reducing risks. These authoritative volumes, resulting from the work of the Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change (AIACC) project launched by the IPCC in 2002, are the first to provide a comprehensive investigation of the issues at stake. Climate Change and Vulnerability discusses who is vulnerable to climate change, the nature of their vulnerability and the causes of their vulnerability for parts of the world that have been poorly researched until now. Climate Change and Adaptation covers current practices for managing climate risks to food security, water resources, livelihoods, human health and infrastructure, needs for effective management of climate risks, the changing nature of the risks, strategies for adaptation, and the need to integrate these strategies into development planning and resource management.
Author : Sarah Boulter,Jean Palutikof,David John Karoly,Daniela Guitart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781107010161
Eighteen case studies of worldwide natural disasters are used to inform actual climate change adaptation practice for researchers and decision makers.
Author : Houshang Kheradmand,Juan A. Blanco
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789533074115
This book shows some of the socio-economic impacts of climate change according to different estimates of the current or estimated global warming. A series of scientific and experimental research projects explore the impacts of climate change and browse the techniques to evaluate the related impacts. These 23 chapters provide a good overview of the different changes impacts that already have been detected in several regions of the world. They are part of an introduction to the researches being done around the globe in connection with this topic. However, climate change is not just an academic issue important only to scientists and environmentalists; it also has direct implications on various ecosystems and technologies.
Author : Leigh Glover,Mikael Granberg
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030462055
This book examines the political themes and policy perspectives related to, and influencing, climate change adaptation. It provides an informed primer on the politics of adaptation, a topic largely overlooked in the current scholarship and literature, and addresses questions such as why these politics are so important, what they mean, and what their implications are. The book also reviews various political texts on adaptation.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 847 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 131506717X
Author : E. Lisa F. Schipper,Jessica Ayers,Hannah Reid,Saleemul Huq,Atiq Rahman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136252365
As climate change adaptation rises up the international policy agenda, matched by increasing funds and frameworks for action, there are mounting questions over how to ensure the needs of vulnerable people on the ground are met. Community-based adaptation (CBA) is one growing proposal that argues for tailored support at the local level to enable vulnerable people to identify and implement appropriate community-based responses to climate change themselves. Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change: Scaling it up explores the challenges for meeting the scale of the adaptation challenge through CBA. It asks the fundamental questions: How can we draw replicable lessons to move from place-based projects towards more programmatic adaptation planning? How does CBA fit with larger scale adaptation policy and programmes? How are CBA interventions situated within the institutions that enable or undermine adaptive capacity? Combining the research and experience of prominent adaptation and development theorists and practitioners, this book presents cutting edge knowledge that moves the debate on CBA forward towards effective, appropriate, and ‘scaled-up’ adaptive action.
Author : Mark Pelling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781134022014
The impacts of climate change are already being felt. Learning how to live with these impacts is a priority for human development. In this context, it is too easy to see adaptation as a narrowly defensive task – protecting core assets or functions from the risks of climate change. A more profound engagement, which sees climate change risks as a product and driver of social as well as natural systems, and their interaction, is called for. Adaptation to Climate Change argues that, without care, adaptive actions can deny the deeper political and cultural roots that call for significant change in social and political relations if human vulnerability to climate change associated risk is to be reduced. This book presents a framework for making sense of the range of choices facing humanity, structured around resilience (stability), transition (incremental social change and the exercising of existing rights) and transformation (new rights claims and changes in political regimes). The resilience-transition-transformation framework is supported by three detailed case study chapters. These also illustrate the diversity of contexts where adaption is unfolding, from organizations to urban governance and the national polity. This text is the first comprehensive analysis of the social dimensions to climate change adaptation. Clearly written in an engaging style, it provides detailed theoretical and empirical chapters and serves as an invaluable reference for undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in climate change, geography and development studies.
Author : Mizan R. Khan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135103262
Although tackling the causes of climate change through mitigation is necessary, it is also essential to examine the effect of climate change and what international cooperation can take place to ensure global adaptation measures. This pioneering book deals exclusively with the politics of why adaptation as a global responsibility continues to be ignored.
Author : Jamie Pittock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136545382
Climate change is dramatically affecting freshwater supplies, particularly in the developing world. The papers in this volume present a powerful case for and exploration of different freshwater adaptation strategies in the face of global climatic change. The volume centres on six detailed case studies, from India, China, Mexico, Brazil, the lower Danube basin and Tanzania, written by experienced local academics and practitioners. They assess autonomous adaptation in the freshwater sector, drawing out key lessons about what motivated these societies to change, which factors led to more successful adaptation, and how interventions may best be sustained. The volume also contains a global overview of the lessons derived from these experiences. It sheds light on two key theories: that vulnerability to climate change is best reduced by reducing poverty and promoting sustainable development first, or by reducing bio-physical risks from climate change. The publication also highlights the need to ensure that access to more precise climate change impact data is not used as an excuse to delay implementation of no regrets adaptation measures.
Author : Tony George Puthucherril
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004282209
Coastal areas around the world are severely stressed due to a myriad of human activities and marine pollution. They are now detrimentally being affected by climate change and sea level rise as well. One major theater most acutely impacted by these phenomena is coastal South Asia, an overcrowded region with low adaptive capacities. Drawing on the experiences of coastal countries and regions beyond South Asia, Towards Sustainable Coastal Development: Institutionalizing Integrated Coastal Zone Management and Coastal Climate Change Adaptation in South Asia recommends operationalizing integrated coastal zone management and linking the same with coastal climate change adaptation under appropriately crafted coastal laws to facilitate a move towards sustainable coastal development.
Author : Karen O'Brien,Karen L. O'Brien,Elin Selboe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107022980
This book presents a new perspective on climate change for researchers and policymakers in the environmental social sciences and humanities.
