Adapting to Climate Change in Europe: Exploring Sustainable Pathways - From Local Measures to Wider Policies

Adapting Future to Climate Change in Europe: Bottom-up and Top-down Perspectives is a scientific synthesis of the work of a four-year European project on adaptation activities in Europe. The book combines scientific assessments with real world case descriptions and presentation of specific tools and methods. This book aims at ensuring sustainable solutions in adaptation to climate change. The challenge of adaptation is still at an early stage and this book fills relevant gaps in current knowledge on climate adaptation, providing a set of tools which are crucial to support an effective decision-making, by guiding practitioners and decision-makers along different steps of the on-going adaptation processes, comprising methods and tools for improving stakeholder's participation as well as for analysing costs and benefits of different adaptation measures. Features real world case studies providing a tool for comparative learning, fulfilling the current knowledge gap in climate change adaptationIncludes top-down economic models allowing for a novel application and integration of adaptation features in Europe-wide and global modelsProvides in-depth analysis of participation using new empirical material and approaches INDICE: 1. Introduction - European climate change adaptation research 2. Storylines and pathways for adaptation in Europe 3. The diversity of adaptation in a multi-level governance setting 4. Upscaling the impacts of climate change in different sectors 5. Economy wide impacts of climate mitigation and adaptation strategies across European regions 6. Comparative decision support tool 7. Policy recommendations and key future policy developments 8. Summary version 9. Glossary

• ISBN: 978-0-12-849887-3
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 300
• Fecha Publicación: 01/03/2018
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés