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Handbook of Climate Change and Biodiversity

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Editors:
  1. Walter Leal Filho

    1. Faculty of Life Sciences, Research and Transfer Centre “Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management”, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

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  2. Jelena Barbir

    1. International Climate Change Information and Research Programme, Hamburg, Germany

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  3. Richard Preziosi

    1. School of Science and the Environment, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK

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  • Comprehensively describes research and projects on climate change and biodiversity
  • Provides government and non-government bodies with a sound basis for promoting biodiversity conservation efforts
  • Investigates measures aimed at managing the risks that climate change poses to our ecosystems

Part of the book series: Climate Change Management (CCM)

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Water Management and Climate Change in the Focus of International Master Programs in Latin America and the Carribian

    • Frido Reinstorf, Petra Schneider, Raymundo Rodriguez Tejeda, Leslie Santos Roque, Henrietta Hampel, Raul F. Vazquez
    Pages 1-23

  3. Mangrove Conservation Policies in the Gulf of Guayaquil

    • Daniel Ortega-Pacheco, Maria J. Mendoza-Jimenez, Paul Herrera
    Pages 25-43

  4. Biodiversity Issues Should Be Better Taken into Account in the Energy Transition

    • Agnès Hallosserie, Hélène Soubelet, Hélène Leriche, Patricia Savin, Jean-François Silvain
    Pages 45-59

  5. Approaches to Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity Assessment in Belarus

    • Siarhei Zenchanka, Nikolai Gorbatchev
    Pages 61-78

  6. Community Action for Biodiversity and Forest Conservation and Adaptation to Climate Change in the Wild Coffee Forests (CAFA)

    • Svane Bender, Mesfin Tekle
    Pages 79-92

  7. Impact of Climate Change on Sawfly (Suborder: Symphyta) Polinators in Andalusia Region, Spain

    • Jelena Barbir, Luis Oscar Aguado Martín, Xavier Rodriguez Lloveras
    Pages 93-111

  8. Coffee, Climate and Biodiversity: Understanding the Carbon Stocks of the Shade Coffee Production System of India

    • Nadesa Panicker Anil Kumar, Amsad Ibrahim Khan Saleem Khan, Vaniyan Balakrishnan
    Pages 113-134

  9. Implications for Biodiversity of Potentially Committed Global Climate Change (from Science and Policy)

    • Peter D. Carter
    Pages 135-149

  10. Ensuring Co-benefits for Biodiversity, Climate Change and Sustainable Development

    • Risa Smith, Oscar Guevara, Lauren Wenzel, Nigel Dudley, Valeria Petrone-Mendoza, Martin Cadena et al.
    Pages 151-166

  11. Sustainable Hydropower: Using Ecosystem-based Adaptation to Increase Local Adaptation Capacity in Brazil

    • Katia Cristina Garcia, Alexandre Mollica, Denise Ferreira de Matos, Luciana Rocha Leal da Paz
    Pages 167-178

  12. The Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative as an Adaptive Response to Climate Change

    • Charles C. Chester, Jodi A. Hilty
    Pages 179-193

  13. Saving the Last Endemic-Church Forests in Ethiopia: The Case of Lake Tana Biosphere Reserve

    • Teowdroes Kassahun, Svane Bender
    Pages 195-210

  14. Factors Affecting Communication and Information Sharing for Water Resource Management in Lake Victoria Basin (LVB)

    • Odongtoo Godfrey, Ssebuggwawo Denis, Lating Peter Okidi
    Pages 211-222

  15. Climate Sentinels Research Program: Developing Indicators of the Effects of Climate Change on Biodiversity in the Region of New Aquitaine (South West, France)

    • Fanny Mallard, Laurent Couderchet
    Pages 223-241

  16. Introducing Spatio-Temporal Conservation Units: Models for Flexible Optimization of Species Persistence Under Climate Change

    • Diogo Alagador, Jorge Orestes Cerdeira
    Pages 243-258

  17. The Impact of Climate Change and Variability on Wild Terrestrial Animals in Selected Rural Coastal Regions of Kenya

    • Bertha Othoche
    Pages 259-271

  18. Biodiversity Risks for Belarus Connected with the UV Climate Change

    • Aliaksandr Krasouski, Siarhei Zenchanka, Elena Loginova, Maxim Andreev
    Pages 273-286

  19. The Impact of Forest Fire on the Biodiversity and the Soil Characteristics of Tropical Peatland

    • Cahyono Agus, Fatikhul F. Azmi, Widiyatno, Zinda R. Ilfana, Dewi Wulandari, Dony Rachmanadi et al.
    Pages 287-303

  20. Promoting Climate Agenda and Biodiversity Conservation at the Local Level: A Case for Nepal’s Rural and Urban Municipalities

    • Krishna Roka
    Pages 305-323
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About this book

This book comprehensively describes essential research and projects on climate change and biodiversity. Moreover, it includes contributions on how to promote the climate agenda and biodiversity conservation at the local level. Climate change as a whole and global warming in particular are known to have a negative impact on biodiversity in three main ways. Firstly, increases in temperatures are detrimental to a number of organisms, especially those in sensitive habitats such as coral reefs and rainforests. Secondly, the pressures posed by a changing climate may lead to sets of responses in areas as varied as phenology, range and physiology of living organisms, often leading to changes in their lifecycles (especially but not only in reproduction), losses in productivity or even death. In some cases, the very survival of very sensitive species may be endangered. Thirdly, the impacts of climate change on biodiversity will be felt in the short term with regard to some species and ecosystems, but also in the medium and long term in many biomes. Indeed, if left unchecked, some of these impacts may be irreversible.

Many individual governments, financial institutes and international donors are currently spending billions of dollars on projects addressing climate change and biodiversity, but with little coordination. Quite often, the emphasis is on adaptation efforts, with little emphasis on the connections between physio-ecological changes and the lifecycles and metabolisms of fauna and flora, or the influence of poor governance on biodiversity. As such, there is a recognized need to not only better understand the impacts of climate change on biodiversity, but to also identify, test and implement measures aimed at managing the many risks that climate change poses to fauna, flora and micro-organisms. In particular, the question of how to restore and protect ecosystems from the impact of climate change also has to be urgently addressed.

This book was written to address this need. The respective papers explore matters related to the use of an ecosystem-based approach to increase local adaptation capacity, consider the significance of a protected areas network in preserving biodiversity in a changing northern European climate, and assess the impacts of climate change on specific species, including wild terrestrial animals. The book also presents a variety of case studies such as the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, the effects of climate change on the biodiversity of Aleppo pine forest in Senalba (Algeria), climate change and biodiversity response in the Niger Delta region, and the effects of forest fires on the biodiversity and the soil characteristics of tropical peatlands in Indonesia. 

This is a truly interdisciplinary publication, and will benefit all scholars, social movements, practitioners and members of governmental agencies engaged in research and/or executing projects on climate change and biodiversity around the world.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Life Sciences, Research and Transfer Centre “Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management”, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  • International Climate Change Information and Research Programme, Hamburg, Germany

    Jelena Barbir

  • School of Science and the Environment, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK

    Richard Preziosi

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