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Climate Change Adaptation in Developed Nations

From Theory to Practice

  • Offers practical lessons for adapting to climate change

  • Features a unique structure: leading scientists provide an overview chapter for each section, critique the chapters, discuss adaptation progress in the section in question, and outline future research and policy needs

  • Focuses on the developed world where many edited volumes focus on developing nations

  • Presents case studies from a diversity of authors including scientists as well as policy makers from the US, Japan, Australia, Canada, UK, France, Germany, New Zealand, and Hungary

Part of the book series: Advances in Global Change Research (AGLO, volume 42)

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Table of contents (35 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
  2. Introduction and Overview

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
  3. INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW

    1. Introduction

      • James D. Ford, Lea Berrang-Ford
      Pages 3-20
    2. The Australian Experience

      • Timothy Frederick Smith, Dana C. Thomsen, Noni Keys
      Pages 69-84
    3. Leading the UK Adaptation Agenda: A Landscape of Stakeholders and Networked Organizations for Adaptation to Climate Change

      • Emily Boyd, Roger Street, Megan Gawith, Kate Lonsdale, Laurie Newton, Kay Johnstone et al.
      Pages 85-102
    4. Adaptation to Climate Change in Canada: A Multi-level Mosaic

      • Thea Dickinson, Ian Burton
      Pages 103-117
  4. Adaptation in the Public Health Sector

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
  5. Adaptation in the Industrial Sector

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 221-221
  6. ADAPTATION IN THE INDUSTRIAL SECTOR

About this book

It is now widely accepted that adaptation will be necessary if we are to manage the risks posed by climate change. What we know about adaptation, however, is limited. While there is a well established body of scholarship proposing assessment approaches and explaining concepts, few studies have examined if and how adaptation is taking place at a national or regional level.

Editors and Affiliations

  • , Department of Geography, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

    James D. Ford, Lea Berrang-Ford

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eBook USD 169.00
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Softcover Book USD 219.99
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