Adapting to climate change: thresholds, values, governance

This book is a major contribution to a subject that has hitherto been far toolittle studied and commented on. 'Adaptation' to climate change sounds a simple idea, but turns out to be a complex and problematic one. Everyone involved in the debate about how to cope with global warming will profit by studying the diverse contributions this volume contains.' Professor Lord Tony Giddens, London School of Economics and Political Science, author of The Politics of Climate Change 'A fascinating collection of papers addressing adaptation to climate change in all its complexity, ranging geographicaly from the Inuit of ArcticCanada to the African Sahel via the inhabitants of Boscastle in Cornwall. On the way, it explores from the perspectives of many different writers the factors that enable and encourage communities to adapt, and the factors that hold them back. The book has a richness and depth of thinking that makes it requiredreading for all who seek to understand why some communities live in harmony with their climatic environment whilst others fail, and what this means for thefuture of society as a whole as it seeks to come to terms with climate change.' Professor Jean Palutikof, National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, Griffith University. INDICE: Introduction; 1. Adaptation now W. Neil Adger, Irene Lorenzoni andKaren O'Brien; Part I. Adapting to Thresholds in Physical and Ecological Systems: 2. Ecological limits of adaptation to climate change Garry Peterson; 3. Adapting to the effects of climate change on water supply reliability Nigel W. Arnell and Matt Charlton; 4. Protecting London from tidal flooding: limits to engineering adaptation Tim Reeder, Jon Wicks, Luke Lovell and Owen Tarrant; 5.Climate prediction: a limit to adaptation? Suraje Dessai, Mike Hulme, Robert Lempert and Roger Pielke, Jr.; 6. Learning to crawl: how to use seasonal climate forecasts to build adaptive capacity Anthony G. Patt; 7. Norse Greenland settlement and limits to adaptation Andrew J. Dugmore, Christian Keller, Thomas H. McGovern, Andrew F. Casely and Konrad Smiarowski; 8. Sea ice change in Arctic Canada: are there limits to Inuit adaptation? James D. Ford; Part II. The Role of Value and Culture in Adaptation: 9. The past, present and some possiblefutures of adaptation Ben Orlove; 10. Do values subjectively define the limits to climate change adaptation? Karen O'Brien; 11. Conceptual and practical barriers to adaptation: vulnerability and responses to heat waves in the UK Johanna Wolf, Irene Lorenzoni, Roger Few, Vanessa Abrahamson and Rosalind Raine; 12. Values and cost-benefit analysis: economic efficiency criteria in adaptation Alistair Hunt and Tim Taylor; 13. Hidden costs and disparate uncertainties: trade-offs in approaches to climate policy Hallie Eakin, Emma L. Tompkins, Donald R. Nelson and John M. Anderies; 14. Community based adaptation and culturein theory and practice Jonathan Ensor and Rachel Berger; 15. Exploring the invisibility of local knowledge in decision-making: the Boscastle harbour flood disaster Tori L. Jennings; 16. Adaptation and conflict within fisheries: insights for living with climate change Sarah Coulthard; 17. Exploring cultural dimensions of adaptation to climate change Thomas Heyd and Nick Brooks; 18. Adapting to an uncertain climate on the great plains: testing hypotheses on historical populations Roberta Balstad, Roly Russell, Vladimir Gil and Sabine Marx; 19. Climate change and adaptive human migration: lessons from rural North America Robert McLeman; Part III. Governance, Knowledge and Technologies for Adaptation: 20. Are our levers long and our fulcra strong enough? Exploring the softunderbelly of adaptation decisions and actions Susanne C. Moser; 21. Decentralized planning and climate adaptation: toward transparent governance Timothy J. Finan and Donald R. Nelson; 22. Climate adaptation, local institutions and rural livelihoods Arun Agrawal and Nicolas Perrin; 23. Adaptive governance for a changing coastline: science, policy and publics in search of a sustainable future Sophie Nicholson-Cole and Tim O'Riordan; 24. Climate change, international cooperation and adaptation in transboundary water management Alena Drieschova, Mark Giordano and Itay Fischhendler; 25. Decentralization: a window of opportunity for successful adaptation to climate change? Maria Brockhaus and Hermann Kambire; 26. Adapting to climate change: the nation-state as problem and solution Erik S. Reinert, Iulie Aslaksen, Inger Marie G. Eira, Svein D. Mathiesen, Hugo Reinert and Ellen Inga Turi; 27. Limits to adaptation: analysing institutional constraints Tor Hakon Inderberg and Per Ove Eikeland; 28. Accessing diversification, networks and traditional resource management as adaptations to climate extremes Marisa Goulden, Lars Otto N'ss, Katharine Vincent and W. Neil Adger; 29. Governance limits to effective global financial support for adaptation Richard J. T. Klein and Annett Mohner; 30. Organizational learning and governance in adaptation in urban development Marte Winsvold, Knut Bjorn Stokke, Jan Erling Klausen and Inger Lise Saglie; 31. Conclusions: transforming theworld Donald R. Nelson; Index.

• ISBN: 978-0-521-76485-8
• Editorial: Cambridge University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 514
• Fecha Publicación: 01/10/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés