Overview
- Describes research, projects and experiences regarding the limits of climate change adaptation from many countries
- Documents real-world case studies illustrating how adaptation limits have been reached or may be reached in the near future
- Presents innovative multi-disciplinary research on climate change adaptation from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Climate Change Management (CCM)
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Limits to Climate Change Adaptation in Asia
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Limits to Climate Change Adaptation in Africa
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Limits to Climate Change Adaptation in Australia, North-America and Europe
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Limits to Climate Change Adaptation in the Pacific Region
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Limits to Climate Change Adaptation
Editors: Walter Leal Filho, Johanna Nalau
Series Title: Climate Change Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64599-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-64598-8Published: 01 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87831-7Published: 27 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-64599-5Published: 15 November 2017
Series ISSN: 1610-2002
Series E-ISSN: 1610-2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 410
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 29 illustrations in colour
Topics: Climate Change, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Natural Resource and Energy Economics, Development and Sustainability