Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Book cover

Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation

  • Reference work
  • © 2015

Overview

Editors:
  1. Walter Leal Filho

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

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  • Provides a comprehensive overview of how to handle climate change

  • Presents the latest approaches to climate change impact

  • Makes top, international expertise on adaptation to climate change accessible

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 949.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book USD 1,299.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (100 entries)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xl
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Climate Change Impacts and Management

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
      Download chapter PDF

    2. A Methodological Framework for Building an Index for Vulnerability Assessment in Rainfed Agriculture

      • Aliou Diouf, Amadou Thierno Gaye
      Pages 3-15

    3. A Multi-model Framework for Climate Change Impact Assessment

      • Alireza Gohari, Mohammad Javad Zareian, Saeid Eslamian
      Pages 17-35

    4. A Socio-Economic Evaluation of Community-based Adaptation: A Case Study in Dakoro, Niger

      • Olivier Vardakoulias, Natalie Nicholles
      Pages 37-70

    5. Adaptation as Climate Risk Management : Methods and Approaches

      • Paul Bowyer, Michaela Schaller, Steffen Bender, Daniela Jacob
      Pages 71-92

    6. Adapting Nature-Based Seasonal Activities in Quebec (Canada) to Climate Change

      • Stéphanie Bleau, Sylvie Blangy, Michel Archambault
      Pages 93-121

    7. An Analytical Framework for Investigating Complex Institutions in Climate Change Adaptation: The Institutional Environment Matrix

      • Sining C. Cuevas, Ann Peterson, Tiffany Morrison
      Pages 123-149

    8. An Approach to Measure Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change in the Hindu Kush Himalayas

      • Jean-Yves Gerlitz, Soumyadeep Banerjee, Nick Brooks, Kiran Hunzai, Mirjam Macchi
      Pages 151-176

    9. Climate Change and Displacement in Bangladesh : Issues and Challenges

      • Nour Mohammad
      Pages 177-194

    10. Climate Change and Health in Colombia

      • Tam Tran, Salua Osorio Mrad, Gilma C. Mantilla
      Pages 195-213

    11. Climate Change and Urban Development in Africa

      • Asfaw Kumssa, Aloysius C. Mosha, Isaac M. Mbeche, Enos H. N. Njeru
      Pages 215-226

    12. Climate Change Governance: Emerging Legal and Institutional Frameworks for Developing Countries

      • Martin Oulu
      Pages 227-250

    13. Climate Compatible Physical Infrastructure in Coastal Bangladesh

      • Mustafa Saroar
      Pages 251-276

    14. Conservation of Urban Biodiversity Under Climate Change: Climate-Smart Management for Chicago Green Spaces

      • Abigail Derby Lewis, Robert K. Moseley, Kimberly R. Hall, Jessica J. Hellmann
      Pages 277-296

    15. Development and Application of Good Practice Criteria for Evaluating Adaptation Measures

      • Christian Kind, Andreas Vetter, Rupert Wronski
      Pages 297-317

    16. Gender and Health Adaptation Measures to Climate Change in the Pacific: A Case Study of Papua New Guinea

      • Sabrina Regmi
      Pages 319-335

    17. Guiding Regional Climate Adaptation in Coastal Areas

      • Helge Bormann, Rob van der Krogt, Leo Adriaanse, Frank Ahlhorn, Ruben Akkermans, Yvonne Andersson-Sköld et al.
      Pages 337-357

    18. Himalayan Glaciers Retreat and Implications for Sectoral Climate Adaptation

      • Rajesh Kumar, Prakash Rao, G. Areendran
      Pages 359-371

    19. Linking Social Perception and Risk Analysis to Assess Vulnerability of Coastal Socio-ecological Systems to Climate Change in Atlantic South America

      • J. P. Lozoya, D. Conde, M. Asmus, M. Polette, C. Píriz, F. Martins et al.
      Pages 373-399
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

The Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation addresses the scientific, social, political and cultural aspects of climate change in an integrated and coherent way. The multi-volume reference focuses on one of the key aspects of climate change: adaptation and how to handle its impacts on physical, biotic and human systems, analyzing the social and normative scientific concerns and presenting the tools, approaches and methods aimed at management of climate change impacts. The high-quality, interdisciplinary contributions provides state-of-the-art descriptions of the topics at hand with the collective aim of offering, for a broad readership, an authoritative, balanced and accessible presentation of the best current understanding of the nature and challenges posed by climate change. It serves not only as a valuable information source but also as a tool to support teaching and research and as help for professionals to assist in decision-making.

Reviews

“The Handbook … with the simple goal to provide a comprehensive overview of how to handle climate change – and as such it doesn’t disappoint. … the Handbook provides you with the one go-to place to find your most burning questions answered quickly. … All in all, this has been a highly informative read and I strongly recommend this for everyone who wants to dig deeper into all various aspects of Climate Change Adaptation.” (Claudia Florowski, reegle Blog, blog.reegle.info, March, 2016)

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Walter Leal Filho

About the editor

Professor Walter Leal (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 Chair of Environment and Technology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation