
Resilience
The Science of Adaptation to Climate Change
Description
Key Features
- Provides a summary of tools and methods used in adaptation including recent innovations
- Includes chapters from a diverse range of authors from academic institutions, humanitarian organizations, and the United Nations
- Evaluates adaptation options, highlighting gaps in knowledge where further research or new tools are needed
Readership
Scientists working in Climate Change adaptation, sustainable development, and ecosystem management and development; environmental scientists, environmental managers, urban planners
Table of Contents
PART 1: ADAPTATION NEEDS - EVALUATING THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
1. The state of climate change adaptation in international policy
2. The science of climate change and extreme event attribution
3. Adaptation needs: Gaps and priorities for actionPART 2: ADAPTATION ACTIONS BY HAZARD
4. Extreme Events
5. Sea Level Rise
6. Floods
7. Heat WavesPART 3: ADAPTATION ACTIONS BY ECOSYSTEM
8. Mountain Ecosystems
9. Polar Regions
10. Dryland Ecosystems
11. Aquatic ecosystems
12. CoastsPART 4: ADAPTATION ACTIONS BY DIFFERENT SECTORS
13. Agriculture and Food Security
14. Health
15. Urban AreasPART 5: TOOLS AND METHODS FOR RESILIENCE
16. Evaluating Ecosystem Based Adaptation
17. The Role of Early Warning and Early Action
18. Insurance and Risk Transfer
19. Community-based adaptation
20. Public Private Partnerships
21. Investment in adaptationPART 6: EMERGING NEEDS: BUILDING RESILIENCE
22. The Role of Innovation
23. The use of Challenges or Prizes
24. Loss and Damage and Limits to Adaptation
25. Validating what works and what doesn’t - the need for evidence
Product details
- No. of pages: 376
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2018
- Published: May 9, 2018
- Imprint: Elsevier
- eBook ISBN: 9780128118924
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128118917