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Summary
Adapting to climate change is a critical problem facing humanity. This involves reconsidering our lifestyles, and is linked to our actions as individuals, societies and governments. This book presents the latest science and social science research on whether the world can adapt to climate change. Written by experts, both academics and practitioners, it examines the risks to ecosystems, demonstrating how values, culture and the constraining forces of governance act as barriers to action. As a state-of-the-art review of science and a holistic assessment of adaptation options, it is essential reading for those concerned with responses to climate change, especially researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and graduate students. Significant features include historical, contemporary, and future insights into adaptation to climate change; coverage of adaptation issues from different perspectives: climate science, hydrology, engineering, ecology, economics, human geography, anthropology and political science; and contributions from leading researchers and practitioners from around the world. An interview with Neil Adger on adapting to climate change:
Table of Contents
| Introduction |
| 1 Adaptation nowW. Neil Adger and Irene Lorenzoni and Karen O'Brien |
| Part I Adapting to Thresholds in Physical and Ecological Systems: |
| 2 Ecological limits of adaptation to climate changeGarry Peterson |
| 3 Adapting to the effects of climate change on water supply reliabilityNigel W. Arnell and Matt Charlton |
| 4 Protecting London from tidal flooding: limits to engineering adaptationTim Reeder and Jon Wicks and Luke Lovell and Owen Tarrant |
| 5 Climate prediction: a limit to adaptation?Suraje Dessai and Mike Hulme and Robert Lempert and Roger Pielke, Jr. |
| 6 Learning to crawl: how to use seasonal climate forecasts to build adaptive capacityAnthony G. Patt |
| 7 Norse Greenland settlement and limits to adaptationAndrew J. Dugmore and Christian Keller and Thomas H. McGovern and Andrew F. Casely and Konrad Smiarowski |
| 8 Sea ice change in Arctic Canada: are there limits to Inuit adaptation?James D. Ford |
| Part II The Role of Value and Culture in Adaptation: |
| 9 The past, present and some possible futures of adaptationBen Orlove |
| 10 Do values subjectively define the limits to climate change adaptation?Karen O'Brien |
| 11 Conceptual and practical barriers to adaptation: vulnerability and responses to heat waves in the UKJohanna Wolf and Irene Lorenzoni and Roger Few and Vanessa Abrahamson and Rosalind Raine |
| 12 Values and cost-benefit analysis: economic efficiency criteria in adaptationAlistair Hunt and Tim Taylor |
| 13 Hidden costs and disparate uncertainties: trade-offs in approaches to climate policyHallie Eakin and Emma L. Tompkins and Donald R. Nelson and John M. Anderies |
| 14 Community based adaptation and culture in theory and practiceJonathan Ensor and Rachel Berger |
| 15 Exploring the invisibility of local knowledge in decision-making: the Boscastle harbour flood disasterTori L. Jennings |
| 16 Adaptation and conflict within fisheries: insights for living with climate changeSarah Coulthard |
| 17 Exploring cultural dimensions of adaptation to climate changeThomas Heyd and Nick Brooks |
| 18 Adapting to an uncertain climate on the great plains: testing hypotheses on historical populationsRoberta Balstad and Roly Russell and Vladimir Gil and Sabine Marx |
| 19 Climate change and adaptive human migration: lessons from rural North AmericaRobert McLeman |
| Part III Governance, Knowledge and Technologies for Adaptation: |
| 20 Are our levers long and our fulcra strong enough? Exploring the soft underbelly of adaptation decisions and actionsSusanne C. Moser |
| 21 Decentralized planning and climate adaptation: toward transparent governanceTimothy J. Finan and Donald R. Nelson |
| 22 Climate adaptation, local institutions and rural livelihoodsArun Agrawal and Nicolas Perrin |
| 23 Adaptive governance for a changing coastline: science, policy and publics in search of a sustainable futureSophie Nicholson-Cole and Tim O'Riordan |
| 24 Climate change, international cooperation and adaptation in transboundary water managementAlena Drieschova and Mark Giordano and Itay Fischhendler |
| 25 Decentralization: a window of opportunity for successful adaptation to climate change?Maria Brockhaus and Hermann Kambiré |
| 26 Adapting to climate change: the nation-state as problem and solutionErik S. Reinert and Iulie Aslaksen Inger and Marie G. Eira and Svein D. Mathiesen and Hugo Reinert and Ellen Inga Turi |
| 27 Limits to adaptation: analysing institutional constraintsTor Håkon Inderberg and Per Ove Eikeland |
| 28 Accessing diversification, networks and traditional resource management as adaptations to climate extremesMarisa Goulden and Lars Otto Næss and Katharine Vincent and W. Neil Adger |
| 29 Governance limits to effective global financial support for adaptationRichard J. T. Klein and Annett Möhner |
| 30 Organizational learning and governance in adaptation in urban developmentMarte Winsvold and Knut Bjørn Stokke and Jan Erling Klausen and Inger Lise Saglie |
| 31 Conclusions: transforming the worldDonald R. Nelson |
| Index |
