Overview
- Provides a comprehensive overview of global attempts to create climate-resilient societies
- Presents an invaluable survey of key themes and challenges
- Reports on best practices and lessons learned
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About this book
In this context, a climate resilient society is one that is: reflective (learns from experiences); robust (both people and infrastructure can withstand the impacts of extreme conditions); forward-thinking (with plans made to ensure systems function during extreme events); flexible (so systems and plans can change, evolve or adopt alternative strategies); resourceful (to respond quickly to extreme events); inclusive (so all communities including the vulnerable are involved in planning); and integrated (so people, systems, decision-making and investments are mutually supportive of common goals).
The Climate Resilient Societies Major Reference Work includes chapters covering a range of themes that provide readers with an invaluable overview on how various levels of government have attempted to create climate resilient societies. In particular, each chapter, under its respective theme, will address how a government, or series of governments, at various levels in non-OECD and/or OECD countries, have implemented innovative climate resilient policies that seek synergies across strategies, choices and actions, in an attempt to build a climate resilient society. Each chapter will address one specific sub-theme out of the population of themes covered in the Major Reference Work: Water, Energy, Agriculture and Food, Built environment and Infrastructure, Transport, Human health, Society, Disaster, Business and Economy, and Financing Climate Resilience.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Robert C. Brears is the Editor-in-Chief of the Palgrave Handbook of Climate Resilient Societies and the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures; both Major Reference Works published with Springer Nature. He is the author of nine books, including the Palgrave Macmillan titles Blue and Green Cities: The Role of Blue-Green Infrastructure in Managing Urban Water Resources, The Green Economy and the WaterEnergy-Food Nexus, Natural Resource Management and the Circular Economy, Climate Resilient Water Resources Management, and Developing the Circular Water Economy. Robert is the series editor of the Palgrave Studies in Climate Resilient Societies. He is the Founder of Our Future Water, which has a Knowledge Partnership with the World Bank’s Connect4Climate Program to take on climate change and the UNEP/ World Bank/OECD-hosted Green Growth Knowledge Platform
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Climate Resilient Societies
Editors: Robert C. Brears
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42462-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Reference Module Physical and Materials Science, Reference Module Earth and Environmental Sciences
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42461-9Published: 04 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-42462-6Published: 01 January 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXX, 2311
Number of Illustrations: 29 b/w illustrations, 303 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environment Studies, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Environmental Geography, Environmental Sociology, Environmental Management, Environmental Policy