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Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation

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Editors:
  1. Walter Leal Filho

    1. Hamburg University of Applied Sciences Faculty of Life Science, Hamburg, Germany

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​PRELIMINARY The Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation addresses the scientific, social, political and cultural aspects of climate change in an integrated and coherent way. The multi-volume reference focuses on one of the key aspects of climate change: adaptation and how to handle its impacts on physical, biotic and human systems, analyzing the social and normative scientific concerns and presenting the tools, approaches and methods aimed at management of climate change impacts. The high-quality, interdisciplinary contributions provides state-of-the-art descriptions of the topics at hand with the collective aim of offering, for a broad readership, an authoritative, balanced, and accessible presentation of the best current understanding of the nature and challenges posed by climate change. It serves not only as a valuable information source but also as a tool to support teaching and research and as help for professionals to assist in decision-making.

Table of contents (101 entries)

  1. A Methodological Framework for Building an Index for Vulnerability Assessment in Rainfed Agriculture

    • Aliou Diouf, Amadou Thierno Gaye

  2. A Multi-model Framework for Climate Change Impact Assessment

    • Alireza Gohari, Mohammad Javad Zareian, Saeid Eslamian

  3. A Socioeconomic Evaluation of Community-Based Adaptation: A Case Study from Dakoro, Niger

    • Olivier Vardakoulias, Natalie Nicholles

  4. Adaptation According to Mode of Climate Variability : A Case Study from Canada’s Western Interior

    • David Sauchyn, Barrie Bonsal, Stefan W. Kienzle, Jeannine-Marie St. Jacques, Jessica Vanstone, Elaine Wheaton

  5. Adaptation as Climate Risk Management : Methods and Approaches

    • Paul Bowyer, Michaela Schaller, Steffen Bender, Daniela Jacob

  6. Adaptation of Irrigated and Rainfed Agriculture to Climate Change: The Vulnerability of Production Systems and the Potential of Intraspecific Biodiversity (Case Studies in Italy)

    • Massimo Menenti, S. M. Alfieri, A. Bonfante, M. Riccardi, A. Basile, E. Monaco et al.

  7. Adaptation Options to Improve Food Security in a Changing Climate in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan Region

    • Sarah Marie Nischalke

  8. Adaptation Strategies Against Salinity-Induced Vulnerability in Coastal Bangladesh

    • M. Mustafa Saroar

  9. Adaptation to Climate Change Effects Among Rural Women in Savannah and Forest Zones of Oyo State, Nigeria

    • Nathaniel S. Sangotegbe, Janet O. Obayomi, John O. Oluwasusi

  10. Adaptation to Climate Change in the Cities

    • Magali Dreyfus

  11. Adapting Nature-Based Seasonal Activities in Quebec (Canada) to Climate Change

    • Stéphanie Bleau, Sylvie Blangy, Michel Archambault

  12. Agricultural Extension and Adaptation Under the “New Normal” of Climate Change

    • Brent M. Simpson, Gaye Burpee

  13. Agriculture and Climate Change in Southeast Asia and the Middle East: Breeding, Climate Change Adaptation, Agronomy, and Water Security

    • Ijaz Rasool Noorka, J. S. (Pat) Heslop-Harrison

  14. An Analytical Framework for Investigating Complex Institutions in Climate Change Adaptation: The Institutional Environment Matrix

    • Sining C. Cuevas, Ann Peterson, Tiffany Morrison

  15. An Approach to Measure Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change in the Hindu Kush Himalayas

    • Jean-Yves Gerlitz, Soumyadeep Banerjee, Nick Brooks, Kiran Hunzai, Mirjam Macchi

  16. Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation of Vulnerable Coastal Communities of India

    • Chinmai Hemani

  17. Arable Crop Farmers’ Decision Making and Adaptation Strategies on Climate Change in Ogun State, Nigeria

    • S. B. Ibrahim, Carolyn A. Afolami, I. A. Ayinde, C. O. Adeofun

  18. Assessing How Participatory/Community-Based Natural Resource Management Initiatives Contribute to Climate Change Adaptation in Ethiopia

    • Hannah Reid, Lucy Faulkner

  19. Assessing the Capacity of Law to Facilitate Adaptation to Climate Change

    • Margot A. Hurlbert

  20. Assessing the Impact of Rainwater Harvesting Technology as Adaptation Strategy for Rural Communities in Makueni County, Kenya

    • Jokastah Wanzuu Kalungu, Walter Leal Filho, Duncan Onyango Mbuge, Hillary Kibet Cheruiyot
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Hamburg University of Applied Sciences Faculty of Life Science, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

About the editor

Professor Walter Leal (BSc, PhD, DSc, DPhil, DL, DLitt, DEd) is a Senior Professor and Head of the Research and Transfer Centre "Applications of Life Sciences" at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany and at London Metropolitan University Business School.

 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation

  • Editors: Walter Leal Filho

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40455-9

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Reference Earth and Environm. Science, Reference Module Physical and Materials Science, Reference Module Earth and Environmental Sciences

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-40455-9Due: 26 February 2018

  • Topics: Climate Change, Climate Change Management and Policy, Environmental Economics

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