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Innovation in Climate Change Adaptation

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Editors:
  1. Walter Leal Filho

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

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  • Presents high-level papers on innovations to pursue climate change adaptation
  • Introduces new tools and methods to facilitate innovation in climate change adaptation
  • Documents real case studies and practical initiatives undertaken on the ground in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe

Part of the book series: Climate Change Management (CCM)

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Innovation in Planning, Reforms, Technology and Transformative Processes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Innovative Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation

      • Walter Leal Filho
      Pages 3-15

    3. Adaptation Planning Process and Government Adaptation Architecture Support Regional Action on Climate Change in New South Wales, Australia

      • Brent Jacobs, Christopher Lee, Storm Watson, Suzanne Dunford, Aaron Coutts-Smith
      Pages 17-29

    4. Vulnerability Is Dynamic! Conceptualising a Dynamic Approach to Coastal Tourism Destinations’ Vulnerability

      • Jillian Student, Bas Amelung, Machiel Lamers
      Pages 31-42

    5. Climate Injustice in a Post-industrial City: The Case of Greater Manchester, UK

      • Aleksandra Kazmierczak
      Pages 43-61

    6. Reforms that Integrate Climate Change Adaptation with Disaster Risk Management Based on the Australian Experience of Bushfires and Floods

      • Michael Howes
      Pages 63-73

    7. The CityTree: A Vertical Plant Filter for Enhanced Temperature Management

      • Peter Sänger, Victor Splittgerber
      Pages 75-85

    8. Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation into Development in the Gambia: A Window of Opportunity for Transformative Processes?

      • Hannes Lauer, Irit Eguavoen
      Pages 87-98

    9. Promoting Climate Smart Agriculture Through Space Technology in Nigeria

      • Idowu O. Ologeh, Joshua B. Akarakiri, Francis A. Adesina
      Pages 99-112

    10. Trade-Offs Between Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Options for Resilient Cities: Thermal Comfort in Households

      • Vera Gregório, Sofia Simões, Júlia Seixas
      Pages 113-129

    11. Adapting to Climate Change: Getting More from Spatial Planning

      • Jeremy Carter, Graeme Sherriff
      Pages 131-144

    12. Adaptations to Possible Climate Change Impacts: Problem Structuring Based on VFT Methodology

      • Luiz Priori, Marcelo Hazin Alencar, Adiel Teixeira de Almeida
      Pages 145-157

    13. Assessing Vulnerability to Support Promotion of Adaptive Agricultural Practices in the Sahel

      • Alex Apotsos, David Miller, Brent Simpson
      Pages 159-173

  3. Innovation in Sectorial Approaches to Adaptation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175
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    2. Adaptation of the Artisanal Fisher Folks to Climate Change in the Coastal Region of Ondo State, Nigeria

      • Mosunmola Lydia Adeleke, Matthias Wolff
      Pages 177-193

    3. Comparative Analysis of Woody Composition of Farmlands and Forest Reserve Along Afram River in a Tropical Humid Savanna of Ghana: Implications to Climate Change Adaptation

      • Emmanuel Amoah Boakye, Dibi N’da Hyppolite, Victor Rex Barnes, Stefan Porembski, Michael Thiel, François N. Kouamé et al.
      Pages 195-209

    4. A Stochastic Weather Generator Model for Hydroclimatic Prevision in Urban Floods Risk Assessment in Abidjan District (Cote d’Ivoire)

      • Jean Homian Danumah, Samuel Nii Odai, Mahaman Bachir Saley, Joerg Szarzynski, Kwaku Adjei, Fernand Koffi Kouame
      Pages 211-223

    5. Refining NHS Climate Change Adaptation Plans: Central Manchester University Hospitals Foundation Trust (CMFT) Case Study

      • Oscar Nieto-Cerezo
      Pages 225-245

    6. Strategies for Climate Change Adaptation in Metropolitan Areas: Initiating, Coordinating and Supporting Local Activities: The Approach of Stuttgart Region, Germany

      • Thomas Kiwitt, Silvia Weidenbacher
      Pages 247-260
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About this book

This book introduces innovative approaches to pursue climate change adaptation and to support the long-term implementation of climate change policies. Offering new case studies and data, as well as projects and initiatives implemented across the globe, the contributors present new tools, approaches and methods to pursue and facilitate innovation in climate change adaptation.

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Walter Leal Filho

About the editor

Professor Walter Leal Filho (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 Manchester Metropolitan University (UK).  He is the Director of the "International Climate Change Information Programme (ICCIP) and founding editor of  the "Climate Change Management Series", serving in the editorial board of various journals. He has in excess of 300 publications to his credit, and over 25 years of research experience on the connections between environmental management, sustainability, climate and human behaviour.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Innovation in Climate Change Adaptation

  • Editors: Walter Leal Filho

  • Series Title: Climate Change Management

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25814-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-25812-6Published: 23 January 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79844-8Published: 30 March 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-25814-0Published: 16 January 2016

  • Series ISSN: 1610-2002

  • Series E-ISSN: 1610-2010

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 388

  • Number of Illustrations: 42 b/w illustrations, 47 illustrations in colour

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

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