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Benefits policy developers and advisors, practitioners, researchers and others interested in dealing with uncertainty in climate adaptation decision-making
Offers case studies from different geographical regions and a wide variety of real-life adaptation situations
Presents a new support framework for climate change adaptation decisions under uncertainty
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Climate change highlights the challenges for long-term policy making in the face of persistent and irreducible levels of uncertainties. It calls for the development of flexible approaches, innovative governance and other elements that contribute to effective and adaptive decision-making. Exploring these new approaches is also a challenge for those involved in climate research and development of adaptation policy.
The book provides a dozen real-life examples of adaptation decision making in the form of case studies:
· Water supply management in Portugal, England and Wales and Hungary
· Flooding, including flood risk in Ireland, coastal flooding and erosion in Southwest France, and flood management in Australia’s Hutt River region
· Transport and utilities, including the Austrian Federal railway system, public transit in Dresden, and Québec hydro-electric power
· Report examining communication of large numbers of climate scenarios in Dutch climate adaptation workshops.
Reviews
This book successfully reframes uncertainty as a normal part of decision-making. It provides policy developers and advisors, researchers, and practitioners with a valuable framework within which uncertainty can be recognized, communicated, and incorporated into adaptation planning. … Overall, Adapting to an Uncertain Climate will be a useful resource for anyone involved in the emerging field of adaptation … .” (R. M. B. Harris, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 91 (1), March, 2016)
Editors and Affiliations
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Faculty of Sciences CCIAM (Centre for Climate Change, Impacts, Adaptation and Modelling), University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Tiago Capela Lourenço, Ana Rovisco
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Alterra–Climate Change and Adaptive Land and Water Management, Wageningen University & Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Annemarie Groot
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Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Carin Nilsson
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Air and Climate Change Programme, European Environment Agency, Copenhagen K, Denmark
Hans-Martin Füssel
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Department of Spatial Planning and Quality of Living, PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, The Hague, The Netherlands
Leendert Van Bree
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UKCIP, Environmental Change Institute University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Roger B. Street
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Adapting to an Uncertain Climate
Book Subtitle: Lessons From Practice
Editors: Tiago Capela Lourenço, Ana Rovisco, Annemarie Groot, Carin Nilsson, Hans-Martin Füssel, Leendert Van Bree, Roger B. Street
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04876-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-04875-8Published: 29 April 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35325-8Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-04876-5Published: 14 April 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 182
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 44 illustrations in colour
Topics: Climate Change, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Climate Change Management and Policy, Climate, general, Environmental Science and Engineering, Earth System Sciences