Limits to Climate Change Adaptation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction: Limits to Adaptation

   • Johanna Nalau, Walter Leal Filho

   Pages 1-8

3. Limits to Climate Change Adaptation in Asia

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. Strategies and Barriers to Adaptation of Hazard-Prone Rural Households in Bangladesh

      • G. M. Monirul Alam, Khorshed Alam, Shahbaz Mushtaq, Most Nilufa Khatun, Walter Leal Filho

      Pages 11-24

   3. Governance Limits to Adaptation in Cambodia’s Health Sector

      • Daniel Gilfillan

      Pages 25-39

   4. Land-Based Strategic Model by Integrating Diverse Policies for Climate Change Adaptation in Nepal

      • Adish Khezri, Arbind Man Tuladhar, Jaap Zevenbergen

      Pages 41-57

   5. Climate Change and Migration in Bangladesh: Empirically Derived Lessons and Opportunities for Policy Makers and Practitioners

      • Johannes Luetz

      Pages 59-105

4. Limits to Climate Change Adaptation in Africa

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107

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   2. Limits to Climate Change Adaptation in Zimbabwe: Insights, Experiences and Lessons

      • Nelson Chanza

      Pages 109-127

   3. Pastoralists Shifting Strategies and Perceptions of Risk: Post-crisis Recovery in Damergou, Niger

      • Karen Marie Greenough

      Pages 129-142

   4. Political Limits to Climate Change Adaptation Practices: Insights from the Johannesburg Case

      • Karen Hetz

      Pages 143-158

   5. Constraints and Limits to Climate Change Adaptation Efforts in Nigeria

      • Idowu O. Ologeh, Joshua B. Akarakiri, Francis A. Adesina

      Pages 159-174

   6. Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: Suitability of Banana Crop Production to Future Climate Change Over Uganda

      • Geoffrey Sabiiti, Joseph Mwalichi Ininda, Laban Ayieko Ogallo, Jully Ouma, Guleid Artan, Charles Basalirwa et al.

      Pages 175-190

   7. Local Adaptation to Climate Extremes in Domboshawa: Opportunities and Limitations

      • Vincent Itai Tanyanyiwa, Rejoice Madobi

      Pages 191-208

5. Limits to Climate Change Adaptation in Australia, North-America and Europe

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209

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   2. The Limits of Imagination

      • Liese Coulter

      Pages 211-226

   3. Climate Change Adaptation in Coastal East Arctic Ecosystems: Complexity and Challenges of Monitoring and Evaluation

      • Moktar Lamari, Line Poulin-Larivière, Johann L. Jacob

      Pages 227-244

   4. Limits to Adaptation on Climate Change in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Insights and Experiences

      • Goran Trbic, Davorin Bajic, Vladimir Djurdjevic, Vladan Ducic, Raduska Cupac, Đorđe Markez et al.

      Pages 245-259

6. Limits to Climate Change Adaptation in the Pacific Region

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 261-261

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   2. Climate Change Adaptation Limits in Small Island Developing States

      • Stacy-ann Robinson

      Pages 263-281

This book sheds new light on the limits of adaptation to anthropogenic climate change. The respective chapters demonstrate the variety of and interconnections between factors that together constitute the constraints on adaptation. The book pays special attention to evidence that illustrates how and where such limits have become apparent or are in the process of establishing themselves, and which indicates future trends and contexts that might prove helpful in understanding adaptation limits. In particular, the book provides an overview of the most important challenges and opportunities regarding adaptation limits at different temporal, jurisdictional, and spatial scales, while also highlighting case studies, projects and best practices that show how they may be addressed. The book presents innovative multi-disciplinary research and gathers evidence from various countries, sectors and regions, the goal being to advance our understanding of the limits to adaptation and ways to overcome or modify them.

• Climate Change Adaptation
• Case Studies
• Natural Hazards
• Rural Development
• Coastal Zones
• Migration
• climate change
• climate change impacts

• Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

  Walter Leal Filho

• Griffith Institute for Tourism, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia

  Johanna Nalau

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. He has in excess of 250 publications to his credit, among which ground-breaking books such as "Handbook of Climate Change Management" and others. He teaches on information, education, communication on climate change at various European universities. He has over 20 years of research experience and has a particular interest on the connections between climate and human behavior.

Dr. Johanna Nalau is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Griffith Climate Change Response Program (GCCRP) and Griffith Institute for Tourism (GIFT) at Griffith University specializing in climate change adaptation policy- and decision-making processes. Johanna is a social scientist whose research focuses on understanding how policy- and decision-makers deal with some of the central assumptions related to climate change adaptation, and the array of factors and processes that drive and constrain climate change adaptation, including constraints emerging from adaptation science and theory. Other current research includes ecosystem-based adaptation, sustainable tourism, traditional knowledge, and disaster risk management, with a recent focus in the Pacific region. She previously coordinated and led the first climate adaptation project in Zanzibar, Tanzania before joining Griffith in 2009, and has conducted research in Australia, Fiji, Vanuatu, Samoa, and Kiribati.

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