Climate Adaptation Futures

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ISBN (شابک) : 9780470674963, 9781118529577 
ناشر: Wiley-Blackwell 
سال نشر: 2013 
تعداد صفحات: 403 
زبان: English 
فرمت فایل : PDF (درصورت درخواست کاربر به PDF، EPUB یا AZW3 تبدیل می شود) 
حجم فایل: 9 مگابایت 

قیمت کتاب (تومان) : 51,000

Adaptation is the poor cousin of the climate change challenge - the glamour of international debate is around global mitigation agreements, while the bottom-up activities of adaptation, carried out in community halls and local government offices, are often overlooked. Yet, as international forums fail to deliver reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the world is realising that effective adaptation will be essential across all sectors to deal with the unavoidable impacts of climate change. The need to understand how to adapt effectively, and to develop appropriate adaptation options and actions, is becoming increasingly urgent.

This book reports the current state of knowledge on climate change adaptation, and seeks to expose and debate key issues in adaptation research and practice. It is framed around a number of critical areas of adaptation theory and practice, including:

• Advances in adaptation thinking,
• Enabling frameworks and policy for adaptation,
• Engaging and communicating with practitioners,
• Key challenges in adaptation and development,
• Management of natural systems and agriculture under climate change,
• Ensuring water security under a changing climate,
• Urban infrastructure and livelihoods, and
• The nexus between extremes, disaster management and adaptation.

It includes contributions from many of the leading thinkers and practitioners in adaptation today. The book is based on key contributions from the First International Conference on Climate Change Adaptation ‘Climate Adaptation Futures’, held on the Gold Coast, Australia, in June 2010. That three-day meeting of over 1000 researchers and practitioners in adaptation from 50 countries was the first of its kind.

Readership: The book is essential reading for a wide range of individuals involved in climate change adaptation, including:

• Researchers,
• Communication specialists,
• Decision-makers and policy makers (e.g. government staff, local council staff),
• On-ground adaptation practitioners (e.g. aid agencies, government workers, NGOs),
• Postgraduate and graduate students, and
• Consultants.

Content:
Chapter 1 The past, present and future of adaptation (pages 1–30): Jean Palutikof, Martin Parry, Mark Stafford Smith, Andrew J. Ash, Sarah L. Boulter and Marie Waschka
Chapter 2 Uncertainty/limits to adaptation/adapting to +4°C (pages 31–46): STEPHEN H. Schneider
Chapter 3 Adaptation research (pages 47–55): Andrew J. Ash and Mark Stafford Smith
Chapter 4 Food security under a changing climate (pages 56–68): Mark Howden, Rohan A. Nelson and Steven Crimp
Chapter 5 Emerging dimensions of fair process for adaptation decision?making (pages 69–74): W. Neil Adger
Chapter 6 Conversations on adaptation effectiveness (pages 75–86): Robert Kay, Andy Haines, Cynthia Rosenzweig, Will Steffen and Bruce Thom
Chapter 7 Minimising the risk of maladaptation (pages 87–93): Jon Barnett and Saffron J. O'Neill
Chapter 8 How much adaptation (pages 95–102): Stephen Dovers
Chapter 9 Bridging the science–policy interface (pages 103–110): Diana M. Liverman
Chapter 10 Wise adaptation to climate change (pages 111–118): Nobuo Mimura
Chapter 11 Scenarios for picturing a future adapted to +4°C (pages 119–125): Mark Stafford Smith
Chapter 12 Creating legislative frameworks for adaptation (pages 126–132): Jan McDonald
Chapter 13 Natural hazards and insurance (pages 133–140): Sandra Schuster
Chapter 14 Communication of information for adaptation (pages 141–160): Marie Waschka and Simon Torok
Chapter 15 Fostering community acceptance of managed retreat in New Zealand (pages 161–166): Anna Vandenbeld and Janet MacDonald
Chapter 16 Community engagement to resolve climate adaptation conflicts (pages 167–176): Julian Prior
Chapter 17 Shared learning on adapting to climate change in south?east British Columbia, Canada (pages 177–189): Stewart Cohen, Michelle Laurie, Ingrid Liepa, Trevor Murdock, Cindy Pearce, Ellen Pond, Olaf Schroth and Jeff Zukiwsky
Chapter 18 Cultural dimensions of climate change adaptation (pages 190–199): Sonia Leonard and Meg Parsons
Chapter 19 Adaptation, development and the community (pages 201–214): Jessica Ayers and Saleemul Huq
Chapter 20 Climate change and sustainable development in Botswana (pages 215–226): Opha Pauline Dube
Chapter 21 The challenge of adaptation that meets the needs of low?income urban dwellers (pages 227–234): David Dodman
Chapter 22 Migration doesn't have to be a failure to adapt (pages 235–241): Francois Gemenne
Chapter 23 Climate change adaptation pathways (pages 242–253): Florence Crick, Johanna Wandel, Nic Maclellan and Katharine Vincent
Chapter 24 Ecosystem impacts and adaptation (pages 257–266): Alistair J. Hobday and Guy f. Midgley
Chapter 25 Nature's technology (pages 267–278): Caroline Cowan
Chapter 26 Adaptation measures to climate change in the Mongolian livestock sector (pages 279–283): Batimaa Punsalmaa, Bolormaa Buyndalai and Batnasan Nyamsuren
Chapter 27 Addressing water security in China (pages 285–293): Jun Xia, Thomas Tanner and Ian Holman
Chapter 28 Drought proofing rural economies in semi?arid regions (pages 294–300): Antonio Rocha Magalhaes
Chapter 29 Changing monsoon pattern and its impact on water resources in Himalaya (pages 301–307): Prakash Chandra Tiwari and BHagwati Joshi
Chapter 30 Adapting to climate change in cities (pages 309–321): Shagun Mehrotra, JoAnn Carmin, Adam Fenech, Hartmut Funfgeld, Yadh Labane, Jun Li, Rob Roggema, Frank Thomalla and Cynthia Rosenzweig
Chapter 31 A Bayesian network approach to investigating climate change and commodity price change impacts on human well?being (pages 322–350): Tim Lynam, Jenny Langridge, Art Langston and Yiheyis Maru
Chapter 32 Extreme event risk and climate change adaptation (pages 351–361): Martine Woolf, John Schneider and Martyn Hazelwood
Chapter 33 Linking disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation (pages 362–370): Febi Dwirahmadi, Shannon Rutherford, Wayne Ulrich and Cordia Chu