Successful adaptation to climate change : linking science and policy in a rapidly changing world / edited by Susanne C. Moser and Maxwell T. Boykoff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boykoff, Maxwell T.

Moser, Susanne C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Effect of human beings on.

Climatic changes.

Climatic changes--Social aspects.

Human ecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon [England] : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What does successful adaptation look like? This is a question we are frequently asked by planners, policy makers and other professionals charged with the task of developing and implementing adaptation strategies. While adaptation is increasingly recognized as an important climate risk management strategy, and on-the-ground adaptation planning activity is becoming more common-place, there is no clear guidance as to what success would look like, what to aim for and how to judge progress.This edited volume makes significant progress toward unpacking the question of successful adaptation

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; List of acronyms; Preface; 1 Climate change and adaptation success: the scope of the challenge; PART I Changing goals, trade-offs, and synergies; 2 Reducing the risk of maladaptation in response to sea-level rise and urban water scarcity; 3 Biodiversity conservation for a climate-altered future; 4 Climate adaptation, moral reparation, and the baseline problem; 5 REDD+ and social justice: adaptation by way of mitigation?; PART II Institutional arrangements, interplay, and alignment

6 Institutions as key element to successful climate adaptation processes: results from the San Francisco Bay Area7 Rapid transformation of the US electric power system: prospects and impediments; 8 Towards a binding adaptation regime: three levers and two instruments; PART III Science-practice interactions, decision support, and supporting norms; 9 Waters, seas, and wine: science for successful climate adaptation; 10 Promoting adaptation success in natural resource management through decision support: lessons from the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain regions

11 Climate risk management: laying the groundwork for successful adaptation12 Building climate resilience: lessons of early warning in Africa; 13 Engaging science and managing scientific uncertainty in urban climate adaptation planning; PART IV Effective communication and engagement; 14 Media coverage of discourse on adaptation: competing visions of "success" in the Indian context; 15 Risk communication and adaptation in settlements on the coast and in deltas of the Mekong Region; 16 Climate change visioning: effective processes for advancing the policy and practice of local adaptation

PART V Motivations, identities, reflexivity, and personal change17 Navigating the political and emotional terrain of adaptation: community engagement when climate change comes home; 18 The courage to change: adaptation from the inside-out; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed June 25, 2013).

ISBN:

1-135-07129-2

1-78539-181-X

1-135-07130-6

0-203-59388-X

9780203593882

OCLC:

868940770