Adapting to Climate Change Thresholds Values Governance 1st Edition by Neil Adger, Irene Lorenzoni, Karen O’Brien 9780521764858 0521764858

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ISBN 10: 0521764858

ISBN 13: 9780521764858

Author: W. Neil Adger, Irene Lorenzoni, Karen L. O’Brien

Adapting to climate change is a critical problem facing humanity. This involves reconsidering our lifestyles, and is linked to our actions as individuals, societies and governments. This book presents the latest science and social science research on whether the world can adapt to climate change. Written by experts, both academics and practitioners, it examines the risks to ecosystems, demonstrating how values, culture and the constraining forces of governance act as barriers to action. As a state-of-the-art review of science and a holistic assessment of adaptation options, it is essential reading for those concerned with responses to climate change, especially researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and graduate students. Significant features include historical, contemporary, and future insights into adaptation to climate change; coverage of adaptation issues from different perspectives: climate science, hydrology, engineering, ecology, economics, human geography, anthropology and political science; and contributions from leading researchers and practitioners from around the world.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1 Adaptation Now

Part I: Adapting to Thresholds in Physical and Ecological Systems
Chapter 2 Ecological Limits of Adaptation to Climate Change
Chapter 3 Adapting to the Effects of Climate Change on Water Supply Reliability
Chapter 4 Protecting London from Tidal Flooding: Limits to Engineering Adaptation
Chapter 5 Climate Prediction: A Limit to Adaptation?
Chapter 6 Learning to Crawl: How to Use Seasonal Climate Forecasts to Build Adaptive Capacity
Chapter 7 Norse Greenland Settlement and Limits to Adaptation
Chapter 8 Sea Ice Change in Arctic Canada: Are There Limits to Inuit Adaptation?

Part II: The Role of Value and Culture in Adaptation
Chapter 9 The Past, Present and Some Possible Futures of Adaptation
Chapter 10 Do Values Subjectively Define the Limits to Climate Change Adaptation?
Chapter 11 Conceptual and Practical Barriers to Adaptation: Vulnerability and Responses to Heat Waves in the UK
Chapter 12 Values and Cost-Benefit Analysis: Economic Efficiency Criteria in Adaptation
Chapter 13 Hidden Costs and Disparate Uncertainties: Trade-Offs in Approaches to Climate Policy
Chapter 14 Community-Based Adaptation and Culture in Theory and Practice
Chapter 15 Exploring the Invisibility of Local Knowledge in Decision-Making: The Boscastle Harbour Flood Disaster
Chapter 16 Adaptation and Conflict within Fisheries: Insights for Living with Climate Change
Chapter 17 Exploring Cultural Dimensions of Adaptation to Climate Change
Chapter 18 Adapting to an Uncertain Climate on the Great Plains: Testing Hypotheses on Historical Populations
Chapter 19 Climate Change and Adaptive Human Migration: Lessons from Rural North America

Part III: Governance, Knowledge and Technologies for Adaptation
Chapter 20 Are Our Levers Long and Our Fulcra Strong Enough? Exploring the Soft Underbelly of Adaptation Decisions and Actions
Chapter 21 Decentralized Planning and Climate Adaptation: Toward Transparent Governance
Chapter 22 Climate Adaptation, Local Institutions and Rural Livelihoods
Chapter 23 Adaptive Governance for a Changing Coastline: Science, Policy and Publics in Search of a Sustainable Future
Chapter 24 Climate Change, International Cooperation and Adaptation in Transboundary Water Management
Chapter 25 Decentralization: A Window of Opportunity for Successful Adaptation to Climate Change?
Chapter 26 Adapting to Climate Change: The Nation-State as Problem and Solution
Chapter 27 Limits to Adaptation: Analysing Institutional Constraints
Chapter 28 Accessing Diversification, Networks and Traditional Resource Management as Adaptations to Climate Extremes
Chapter 29 Governance Limits to Effective Global Financial Support for Adaptation
Chapter 30 Organizational Learning and Governance in Adaptation in Urban Development
Chapter 31 Conclusions: Transforming the World

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