Overview
Offers unique insights into first experiences of developing and implementing adaptation measures
Particular focus on mountain environments and the adjacent downstream areas
Provides a comprehensive ‘state-of-the-art’ of climate change adaptation and provides an evaluation of knowledge through local and regional case studies
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part B
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Front Matter
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Keywords
About this book
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Nadine Salzmann is a senior scientist and lecturer at the Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Switzerland and co-head of the Eclim 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 (Eclim). 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 5th 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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Climate Change Adaptation Strategies – An Upstream-downstream Perspective
Editors: Nadine Salzmann, Christian Huggel, Samuel U. Nussbaumer, Gina Ziervogel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40773-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-40771-5Published: 11 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82179-5Published: 27 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-40773-9Published: 03 October 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 292
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 64 illustrations in colour
Topics: Climate Change, Hydrology/Water Resources, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts