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Societal Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change

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Editors:
  1. Sally M. Kane

    1. U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of Global Programs, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Silver Spring, USA

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  2. Gary W. Yohe

    1. Department of Economics, Wesleyan University, Middletown, USA
      The Center for Integrated Study of the Human Dimensions of Global Change, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Societal Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change: An Introduction

    • Sally Kane, Gary Yohe
    Pages 1-4

  3. Cautionary Tales: Adaptation and the Global Poor

    • Robert W. Kates
    Pages 5-17

  4. Smallholder Maize Production and Climatic Risk: A Case Study from Mexico

    • Hallie Eakin
    Pages 19-36

  5. Pacific Salmon Fisheries: Climate, Information and Adaptation in a Conflict-Ridden Context

    • Kathleen A. Miller
    Pages 37-61

  6. Reducing Vulnerability to Climate Variability in Southern Africa: The Growing Role of Climate Information

    • Maxx Dilley
    Pages 63-73

  7. Linking Adaptation and Mitigation in Climate Change Policy

    • Sally Kane, Jason F. Shogren
    Pages 75-102

  8. Adaptation and the Guardrail Approach to Tolerable Climate Change

    • Gary Yohe, Ferenc L. Toth
    Pages 103-128

  9. The Impacts of Climate Variability on Near-Term Policy Choices and the Value of Information

    • Robert J. Lempert, Michael E. Schlesinger, Steven C. Bankes, Natalia G. Andronova
    Pages 129-161

  10. Climate Variability, Climate Change and Water Resource Management in the Great Lakes

    • Rob C. De Loë, Reid D. Kreutzwiser
    Pages 163-179

  11. Adaptation in Canadian Agriculture to Climatic Variability and Change

    • Christopher R. Bryant, Barry Smit, Michael Brklacich, Thomas R. Johnston, John Smithers, Quentin Chiotti et al.
    Pages 181-201

  12. Adaptation: Sensitivity to Natural Variability, Agent Assumptions and Dynamic Climate Changes

    • Stephen H. Schneider, William E. Easterling, Linda O. Mearns
    Pages 203-221

  13. An Anatomy of Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability

    • Barry Smit, Ian Burton, Richard J. T. Klein, J. Wandel
    Pages 223-251

  14. Irreversibility, Uncertainty, and Learning: Portraits of Adaptation to Long-Term Climate Change

    • John Reilly, David Schimmelpfennig
    Pages 253-278
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About this book

Changes in climate and climate variability have an effect on people's behaviour around the world, and public institutions have an important part to play in influencing our ability to respond to and plan for climate risk. We may be able to reduce climate risk by seeking to mitigate the threat on the one hand, and by adapting to a changed climate on the other. Another theme of the book is the integrated role of adaptation and mitigation in framing issues and performing analyses. Adaptation costs fall most heavily on the poor and special attention needs to be paid to adaptation by the poorest populations. An integrating framework is also presented to provide the context for an expansive typology of terms to apply to adaptation. The 12 papers collected here use methods from a variety of disciplines and focus on different time frames for decision making, from short term to the very long term.
Readership: Technically trained readers familiar with the policy issues surrounding climate change and interested in learning the scientific underpinnings of issues related to societal adaptation.

Editors and Affiliations

  • U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of Global Programs, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Silver Spring, USA

    Sally M. Kane

  • Department of Economics, Wesleyan University, Middletown, USA

    Gary W. Yohe

  • The Center for Integrated Study of the Human Dimensions of Global Change, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

    Gary W. Yohe

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Societal Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change

  • Editors: Sally M. Kane, Gary W. Yohe

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3010-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6384-2Published: 31 May 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5494-4Published: 09 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-3010-5Published: 09 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 278

  • Topics: Atmospheric Sciences, Environmental Management, Ecotoxicology

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