Climate Change Research at Universities

1. Front Matter

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2. Research and Education on Climate Change Mitigation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Integrating Farmer’s Traditional Knowledge and Practices into Climate Change Sectoral Development Planning: Case Studies from India

      • Nidhi Madan

      Pages 3-18

   3. Roof Top Farming a Solution to Food Security and Climate Change Adaptation for Cities

      • Gunjan Gupta, Pradeep Mehta

      Pages 19-35

   4. Modeling and Monitoring of Air Quality in Greater Cairo Region, Egypt Using Landsat-8 Images, HYSPLIT and GIS Based Analysis

      • Moawad Badawy Moawad, Abdel Aziz Youssief, Khaled Madkour

      Pages 37-54

   5. Going Fossil Free: A Lesson in Climate Activism and Collective Responsibility

      • Eric S. Godoy

      Pages 55-67

   6. Philippine Higher Education Institutions’ Responses to Climate Change

      • Jocelyn C. Cuaresma

      Pages 69-93

   7. Adapting Sri Lanka to Climate Change: Approaches to Water Modelling in the Upper Mahaweli Catchment Area

      • M. P. Gunawardena, M. M. M. Najim

      Pages 95-115

   8. The Challenges and Opportunities for Higher Education Institutions at the Science–Policy Interface

      • Edward A. Morgan

      Pages 117-129

   9. Study of the Vulnerability of Basic Social Infrastructure of the Mexico’s North Border for Purposes of Resiliency and Adaptation to the Adverse Effects of Climate Change

      • Víctor Manuel Lopez-Lopez, Artemisa M. Reyes-Gallegos, Cynthia Lopez-Galvez

      Pages 131-137

   10. Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Studies in Nigeria Universities: Achievements, Challenges and Prospects

       • John-Felix K. Akinbami, Catherine Abiola O. Akinbami

       Pages 139-152

   11. Landslide Loss and Damage in Darbung Village, Gorkha District, Nepal

       • Bishnu Kumari Sapkota

       Pages 153-173

   12. Adaptations to Climate Change in Bangladesh: Development of a National Inventory

       • Debanjali Saha, Mohammed Abed Hossain, Md. Shahriar Shafayet Hossain, M. Shahjahan Mondal, Rezaur Rahman

       Pages 175-189

   13. Implementing Heat-Related Adaptation Measures in the Tri-City Area Bergisches Städtedreieck

       • Alice Neht, Kathrin Prenger-Berninghoff, Dirk Vallée

       Pages 191-210

   14. Legacy of Authoritative Environmentalism and Path-Dependent Historic Institutionalism in the Climate Change Policy Dynamics of the Maldives

       • Ibrahim Mohamed, David King

       Pages 211-231

3. Research and Education on Climate Change Adaptation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 233-233

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   2. Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change in Egypt—Status Quo and Future Policies

      • Paulina Froehlich, Mohammad Al-Saidi

      Pages 235-250

   3. Implications of the Paris Climate Change Agreement for Adaptation Research and Universities

      • Edward A. Morgan, Willow Hallgren, Fernanda Helfer, Oz Sahin, Johanna Nalau, Esther Onyango et al.

      Pages 251-262

   4. Climate Change and Extreme Events over Dabaa Region, Egypt

      • Magdy Kamal Badir, Hamdy Abd AlRahman

      Pages 263-273

   5. Climate Change Adaptation in Yam and Cassava Production, Cross River State, Nigeria: The Role of Higher Educational Institutions

      • Hilda Chia Eta, Austine Oko Angba

      Pages 275-289

This unique book provides a multidisciplinary review of current, climate-change research projects at universities around the globe, offering perspectives from all of the natural and social sciences.

Numerous universities worldwide pursue state-of-the-art research on climate change, focussing on mitigation of its effects as well as human adaptation to it. However, the 2015 Paris 21st Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (COP 21)” demonstrated that there is still much room for improvement in the role played by universities in international negotiations and decision-making on climate change.

To date, few scientific meetings have provided multidisciplinary perspectives on climate change in which researchers across the natural and social sciences could come together to exchange research findings and discuss methods relating to climate change mitigation and adaption studies. As a result the published literature has also lacked a broad perspective. This book fills that gap and is of interest to all researchers and policy-makers concerned with global climate change regardless of their area of expertise.

• Climate Change Research
• Adaptation
• Universities
• Sustainable Development
• Environment
• climate change
• Climate change management

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

  Walter Leal Filho

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.

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