Handbook of Climate Services

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Principles, Philisophy and Applications of Climate Services

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introducing Climate Services and Their Applications

      • Walter Leal Filho

      Pages 3-9

   3. BASIEC: A Coastal Climate Service Framework for Community-Based Adaptation to Rising Sea-Levels

      • A. Saleem Khan, M. Sabuj Kumar, R. Sudhir Chella, B. Devdyuti

      Pages 11-31

   4. Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Agricultural Farms and Its Contribution to Global Warming

      • Haile Arefayne Shishaye

      Pages 33-49

   5. Business Strategies and Climate Change—Prototype Development and Testing of a User Specific Climate Service Product for Companies

      • Markus Groth, Peer Seipold

      Pages 51-66

   6. Why There Is More to Adaptation Than Creating a Strategy

      • Steffen Bender, Jörg Cortekar, Markus Groth, Kevin Sieck

      Pages 67-83

   7. COREDAR: A Coastal Climate Service Framework on Sea-Level Rise Risk Communication for Adaptation Policy Planning

      • A. Saleem Khan, Robert S. Chen, Alex de Sherbinin

      Pages 85-104

   8. What Do Users Expect from Climate Adaptation Services? Developing an Information Platform Based on User Surveys

      • Esther Hoffmann, Johannes Rupp, Kirsten Sander

      Pages 105-134

   9. Physical Climate Risks and the Financial Sector—Synthesis of Investors’ Climate Information Needs

      • Karianne de Bruin, Romain Hubert, Julie Evain, Christa Clapp, Miriam Stackpole Dahl, Jaclyn Bolt et al.

      Pages 135-156

   10. Public-Private Cooperation for Climate Adaptation—Providing Insurance Loss Data to the Municipalities

       • Åshild Lappegard Hauge, Cecilie Flyen, Christoffer Venås, Anne Kokkonen, Carlo Aall

       Pages 157-181

   11. Evaluation of Climate Services: Enabling Users to Assess the Quality of Multi-model Climate Projections and Derived Products

       • Maida Zahid, Juliane El Zohbi, Elisabeth Viktor, Diana Rechid, Susanne Schuck-Zöller, Elke Keup-Thiel et al.

       Pages 183-201

   12. The Need for Science-Based Information. A Requirement for Top-Down and Bottom-up Decision-Making Processes

       • Sebastian Müller, Marcela Scarpellini

       Pages 203-222

   13. Provision of Climate Services—The XDC Model

       • Hannah Helmke, Hans-Peter Hafner, Fabian Gebert, Ari Pankiewicz

       Pages 223-249

3. Case Studies on Climate Services

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 251-251

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   2. Climatological Global Solar UV Index: Measurement and Health Issues in Malta

      • Roderick Busuttil, Charles Galdies, Joseph Cacciottolo, Charles Yousif

      Pages 253-277

   3. Climate Change Risk and Insurance as an Adaptation Strategy: An Enquiry into the Regulatory Framework of South Africa and Ghana

      • Ademola Oluborode Jegede, Michael Addaney, Untalimile Crystal Mokoena

      Pages 279-294

   4. Climate Services for Resilient Climate Planning of the Natural Heritage—Serbian Experiences

      • Tijana Crnčević, Zlata Vuksanović-Macura

      Pages 295-310

   5. Impacts of Climatic Disasters in the Coastal Area of Bangladesh: ‘Climate Service’ a Way Forward

      • Sajal Roy, Ashraful Alam

      Pages 311-325

   6. Towards More Resilient Food Systems for Smallholder Farmers in the Peruvian Altiplano: The Potential of Community-Based Climate Services

      • Andrea Rossa, Moritz Flubacher, Lizet Cristobal, Hugo Ramos, Filippo Lechthaler

      Pages 327-351

This book explores climate services, including projections, descriptive information, analyses, assessments, and an overview of current trends.  

Due to the pressures now being put on the world’s climate, it is vital to gather and share reliable climate observation and projection data, which may be tailored for use by different groups. In other words, it is essential to offer climate services. But despite the growth in the use of these services, there are very few specialist publications on this topic. This book addresses that need.

Apart from presenting studies and the results of research projects, the book also offers an overview of the wide range of means available for providing and using climate services. In addition, it features case studies that provide illustrative and inspiring examples of how climate services can be optimally deployed.

• Climate Change
• Climate Services
• Adaptation
• Management
• Policies

• FTZ-ALS, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

  Walter Leal Filho

• Climate Service Centre Germany (GERICS), Hamburg, Germany

  Daniela Jacob

Walter Leal Filho (BSc, PhD, DSc, DPhil, DEd, DL, DLitt) is a Senior Professor and Head of the Research and Transfer Centre "Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management” at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany, and Chair of Environment and Technology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He is the initiator of the Word Sustainable Development Symposia (WSSD-U) series, and chairs the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme. Professor Leal Filho has written, co-written, edited or co-edited more than 400 publications, including books, book chapters and papers in refereed journals.

Climate scientist Prof. Dr. Daniela Jacob is Head of the Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), a scientific organizational entity of Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, and visiting professor at Leuphana University, Faculty of Sustainability. She holds a PhD in meteorology, was Lead Author of the 5th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) and Coordinating Lead Author for the IPCC Special Report “Global Warming of 1.5 °C”. Her research interests focus on regional climate modelling, the hydrological cycle, and adaption to climate change. She is member of the European Commission’s Mission Board on “Adaptation to Climate Change including Societal Transformation”.

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