Adapting to Climate Change

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Introduction: Learning from Natural Hazards Experience to Adapt to Climate Change

   • Bruce C. Glavovic, Gavin P. Smith

   Pages 1-38

3. Climate Change Adaptation: Theory and Practice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-39

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   2. Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction: Fundamentals, Synergies and Mismatches

      • Jörn Birkmann, Joanna Pardoe

      Pages 41-56

   3. Tackling Barriers to Climate Change Adaptation in South African Coastal Cities

      • Gina Ziervogel, Susan Parnell

      Pages 57-73

4. The Nature of Disasters and the Role Natural Hazards Planning in Building Resilient Communities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75

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   2. Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction in Highland Peru

      • Anthony Oliver-Smith

      Pages 77-100

   3. Firm Foundations or Castles on Sand? The Shifting Sources of Flood Risk and the Implications for Flood Governance: An English Case Study

      • I ain White

      Pages 101-121

   4. Planning for Resilient Coastal Communities: Emerging Practice and Future Directions

      • Timothy Beatley

      Pages 123-144

   5. Adaptation to Seismic Risk and Climate Change: San Francisco and Berkeley, California, USA

      • William Siembieda

      Pages 145-169

   6. Rising to the Challenge: Planning for Adaptation in the Age of Climate Change

      • Philip R. Berke

      Pages 171-190

5. Lessons from Disaster Experience

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191

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   2. Applying Hurricane Recovery Lessons in the United States to Climate Change Adaptation: Hurricanes Fran and Floyd in North Carolina, USA

      • Gavin P. Smith

      Pages 193-229

   3. The 2004 Manawatu Floods, New Zealand: Integrating Flood Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation

      • Bruce C. Glavovic

      Pages 231-268

   4. Learning From Analyses of Policy Frames and Informal Institutions in the Fire Management Sector of Victoria, Australia

      • Karyn Bosomworth, John Handmer, Stephen Dovers

      Pages 269-289

   5. Recovering from the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami: Lessons for Climate Change Response

      • Ahana Lakshmi, Purvaja R., Ramesh R.

      Pages 291-314

   6. Coastal Hazards Planning: The 2009 Tsunami and Lessons Learned for Climate Change Adaptation in Samoa

      • Namouta Poutasi, Michele Daly, Jude Kohlhase, Filomena Nelson

      Pages 315-338

   7. Disaster Recovery in Coastal Mississippi, USA: Lessons Drawing from Hurricanes Camille and Katrina

      • Gavin P. Smith

      Pages 339-367

   8. Waves of Adversity, Layers of Resilience: Floods, Hurricanes, Oil Spills and Climate Change in the Mississippi Delta

      • Bruce C. Glavovic

      Pages 369-403

   9. Conclusions: Integrating Natural Hazards Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation through Natural Hazards Planning

      • Gavin P. Smith, Bruce C. Glavovic

      Pages 405-450

This book identifies lessons learned from natural hazard experiences to help communities plan for and adapt to climate change. Written by leading experts, the case studies examine diverse experiences, from severe storms to sea-level related hazards, droughts, heat waves, wildfires, floods, earthquakes and tsunami, in North America, Europe, Australasia, Asia, Africa and Small Island Developing States. The lessons are grouped according to four imperatives: (i) Develop collaborative governance networks; (ii) build adaptive capabilities; (iii) invest in pre-event planning; and (iv) the moral imperative to undertake adaptive actions that advance resilience and sustainability.

"A theoretically rich and empirically grounded analysis of the interface between disaster risk management and climate change adaptation, comprehensive yet accessible, and very timely." Mark Pelling, Department of Geography, King’s College London, UK.

"This book represents a major contribution to the understanding of natural hazards planning as an urgent first step for reducing disaster risk and adapting to climate change to ensure sustainable and equitable development." Sálvano Briceño, Vice-Chair, Science Committee, Integrated Research on Disaster Risk IRDR, an ICSU/ISSC/ISDR programme. Former Director International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, UNISDR.

“What a welcome addition to the young literature on climate adaptation and hazard mitigation! Bruc

e Glavovic and Gavin Smith each bring to the editing task a rare blend of solid scholarly attainment and on-the-ground experience that shines through in this extensively-documented synthesis of theoretical ideas from the realms of climate and hazards and their validation in a rich set of diverse case studies pulled in from around the world. This book should remain a classic for many years.” William H. Hooke, American Meteorological Society.

• Climate Change Adaptation
• Climate Risk and Resilience
• Disaster Risk Reduction
• Natural Hazards Planning
• Sustainability and Climate Change
• climate change impacts
• Climate change management

“Glavovic and Smith grapple with the disaster conundrum by collecting the knowledge derived, and lessons learned, from a wide range of recent natural disasters that have affected different types of communities from widely separate locations. … breadth of the book as well as the scholarly nature of the contributions will ensure that this volume will be a leading-edge contribution to the development of disaster adaptation strategies and the creation of resilient communities over the remainder of the 21st century.” (Chris Daniels, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 90 (3), September, 2015)

“This edited volume begins with a thoughtful summary of current literature and thinking on climate adaptation. It focuses on interdisciplinary social sciences and will be a valuable reference for those who feel overwhelmed by this expansive, and continuously expanding, body of literature. … It is an extremely useful volume for researchers and teachers.” (Erin Bergren, Natural Hazards Observer, Vol. 34 (4), 2015)

• Resource & Environm Planning Program, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

  Bruce C. Glavovic

• Department of City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina at Chapel H, Chapel Hill, USA

  Gavin P. Smith

Dr. Glavovic has over 25 years of experience in academia, private consulting and Government and has worked mainly in South Africa, the United States of America and New Zealand. He is Vice-Chair of the Land-Oceans Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ) programme and is leading a UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Technical Working Group to prepare guidelines for community coastal risk management. He is a contributing author to Working Group II’s chapter on Australasia in the IPCC’s 5^th Assessment Report. Dr. Glavovic’s research has been published in a variety of academic and professional journals. He co-edited Integrated Coastal Zone Management: The Global Challenge (2008) and The Ecological Economics of Oceans and Coasts (2008) and Climate Change and the Coast: Building Resilient Communities (In press).

Dr. Smith is the Executive Director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Coastal Hazards Center of Excellence. The Coastal Hazards Center research focus areas include: hazard modeling, engineering, human behavior, and land use planning. He is currently engaged in planning-related research within the Center, focused on a national evaluation of local and state hazard mitigation plans. Dr. Smith is an Associate Research Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is author of Planning for Post-Disaster Recovery: A Review of the United

States Disaster Assistance Framework (Island Press, 2011). Following Hurricane Katrina, Dr. Smith worked in the Mississippi Office of the Governor, serving as the Director of the Office of Recovery and Renewal. In this role, he and his staff focused on four primary tasks: the identification of federal, corporate, non-profit and foundation financial assistance; the provision of education, outreach and training to local governments and state agencies; providing counsel to the Governor, his staff and state agency officials regarding disaster recovery policy issues and the implementation of the Governor’s Commission Report: After Katrina: Building Back Better than Ever. In this role he testified before Congress twice, providing recommended policy changes to improve the delivery of post-disaster recovery and reconstruction activities. He also developed the concept and wrote policy guidance associated with the 400 million dollar Alternative Housing Pilot Program, an initiative intended to test the construction and deployment of improved emergency housing alternatives following Hurricane Katrina. Dr. Smith served as the Assistant Director for Hazard Mitigation in the State of North Carolina. During his tenure with the Division, the Mitigation Section administered mitigation and disaster recovery grant funds in excess of 800 million dollars associated with 10 Presidential disaster declarations leading the acquisition and relocation or elevation of over 5,000 and 500 homes respectively. Following Hurricane Floyd, Dr. Smith served as an advisor to Governor Hunt on policies and programs associated with long-term recovery in North Carolina, including the development of 22 state programs that addressed local needs not met by federal assistance.

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