Climate Change Adaptation Strategies – An Upstream-downstream Perspective

1. Front Matter

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2. Part A

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Setting the Scene: Adapting to Climate Change – A Large-Scale Challenge with Local-Scale Impacts

      • Nadine Salzmann, Christian Huggel, Samuel U. Nussbaumer, Gina Ziervogel

      Pages 3-15

   3. Adaptation, Adaptation Science, and the Status of Adaptation in Mountain Regions

      • Graham McDowell, Eleanor Stephenson, James Ford

      Pages 17-38

3. Part B

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-39

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   2. Science in the Context of Climate Change Adaptation: Case Studies from the Peruvian Andes

      • Boris Orlowsky, Norina Andres, Nadine Salzmann, Christian Huggel, Christine Jurt, Luis Vicuña et al.

      Pages 41-58

   3. Managing Glacier Related Risks Disaster in the Chucchún Catchment, Cordillera Blanca, Peru

      • Randy Muñoz, César Gonzales, Karen Price, Ana Rosario, Christian Huggel, Holger Frey et al.

      Pages 59-78

   4. Climate Change Adaptation in the Carpathian Mountain Region

      • Saskia Elisabeth Werners, Sándor Szalai, Henk Zingstra, Éva Kőpataki, Andreas Beckmann, Ernst Bos et al.

      Pages 79-99

   5. Community Forest Management as Climate Change Adaptation Measure in Nepal’s Himalaya

      • Rabin Raj Niraula, Bharat K. Pokharel

      Pages 101-120

   6. Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) of African Mountain Ecosystems: Experiences from Mount Elgon, Uganda

      • Musonda Mumba, Sophie Kutegeka, Barbara Nakangu, Richard Munang, Charles Sebukeera

      Pages 121-140

   7. Vulnerability Assessments for Ecosystem-based Adaptation: Lessons from the Nor Yauyos Cochas Landscape Reserve in Peru

      • Pablo Dourojeanni, Edith Fernandez-Baca, Silvia Giada, James Leslie, Karen Podvin, Florencia Zapata

      Pages 141-160

   8. The Role of Ecosystem-based Adaptation in the Swiss Mountains

      • Veruska Muccione, Ben Daley

      Pages 161-177

   9. Community Perceptions and Responses to Climate Variability: Insights from the Himalayas

      • Anju Pandit, Anmol Jain, Randhir Singha, Augustus Suting, Senti Jamir, Neera Shresthra Pradhan et al.

      Pages 179-194

   10. Drought: In Search of Sustainable Solutions to a Persistent, ‘Wicked’ Problem in South Africa

       • Coleen Vogel, Koos van Zyl

       Pages 195-211

   11. Making Climate Resilience a Private Sector Business: Insights from the Agricultural Sector in Nepal

       • Chiara Trabacchi, Martin Stadelmann

       Pages 213-238

4. Part C

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 239-239

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   2. Shaping Climate Resilient Development: Economics of Climate Adaptation

      • David N. Bresch

      Pages 241-254

   3. Building Resilience: World Bank Group Experience in Climate and Disaster Resilient Development

      • Daniel Kull, Habiba Gitay, Sofia Bettencourt, Robert Reid, Alanna Simpson, Kevin McCall

      Pages 255-270

   4. The Science-Policy Dialogue for Climate Change Adaptation in Mountain Regions

      • Thomas Kohler, André Wehrli, Elbegzaya Batjargal, Sam Kanyamibwa, Daniel Maselli, Urs Wiesmann

      Pages 271-292

Climate change and the related adverse impacts are among the greatest challenges facing humankind during the coming decades. Even with a significant reduction of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, it will be inevitable for societies to adapt to new climatic conditions and associated impacts and risks. This book offers insights to first experiences of developing and implementing adaptation measures, with a particular focus on mountain environments and the adjacent downstream areas. It provides a comprehensive ‘state-of-the-art’ of climate change adaptation in these areas through the collection and evaluation of knowledge from several local and regional case studies and by offering new expertise and insights at the global level. As such, the book is an important source for scientists, practitioners and decision makers alike, who are working in the field of climate change adaptation and towards sustainable development in the sense of the Paris Agreement and the Agenda 2030.

• Climate Change
• Adaptation
• Climate Change Impacts
• Mountains
• Upstream-Downstream
• Climate Risks
• Ecosystems
• Ecosystem Based Adaptation
• Vulnerability
• Perception
• Resilience
• Science-Policy Dialogue

“This volume is a very fine contribution to the quest to find adequate and locally tailored climate adaptation strategies for mountain regions. … the book presents some enthusiasm-generating stories and great examples of community-based approaches. … the book is well presented and most of the chapters have plenty of color graphics, maps, and photographs.” (Wouter Buytaert, Mountain Research & Development, Vol. 37 (2), May, 2017)

• Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland

  Nadine Salzmann

• Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  Christian Huggel, Samuel U. Nussbaumer

• Department of Environmental & Geographical Science and African Climate and Development Initiative, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

  Gina Ziervogel

Nadine Salzmann is a senior scientist and lecturer at the Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Switzerland and co-head of the E^clim research group. Her research centers on atmosphere-cryosphere interactions in high-mountain environments, with emphases on measuring and modelling climate change impacts. She has been conducting research at the University of Zurich and at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO, USA. For several years, she is leading and working for interdisciplinary climate change adaptation projects at the science-policy interface in the Alps, Andes, Himalayas and Central Asia.

Christian Huggel is at the Department of Geography, University of Zurich and co-head of the research group Climate & Environment: Impacts, Risks and Adaptation (E^clim). He has been working in mountain regions, including the European Alps, the Andes, Mexico, Alaska, the Caucasus and the Himalayas. He was a Lead Author of the IPCC Working Group II 5^th Assessment Report and has been a science advisor of the Swiss delegation at the UNFCCC Conference of Parties (COP) and member of several mountain related scientific commissions.

Samuel U. Nussbaumer is a senior researcher at the Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg and a postdoctoral fellow at the World Glacier Monitoring Service, University of Zurich. He has been working on sustainable mountain development and global change and has a particular research interest in past and present glacier changes, their impacts and perception. Several research projects in Europe (Alps, Scandinavia) and South America, with research stays in Bergen (Norway), Mendoza (Argentina), London (Canada) and Santiago (Chile).

Gina Ziervogel is a geographer by training, working in the field of adaptation and vulnerability to global environmental change. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science and Research Chair at the African Climate and Development Institute at the University of Cape Town. Her research focuses on climate adaptation, governance, transformation and development from the household to municipal level. Gina was a lead author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special report on Managing the risk of extreme events and disasters to advance climate change adaptation (SREX) and in 2015 won the South African Young Woman in Science Award.

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