Making Climate Change Work for Us
Making Climate Change Work for Us
£131.00
GBPIntroducing the main challenges and opportunities of developing local, regional and global strategies for addressing climate change, this book explains the dilemmas faced when converting strategies into policies. Providing a synthesis of the findings of the three-year European Commission ADAM (Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies) research project and written by many leading interdisciplinary climate change research teams, European strategies for tackling climate change are placed within a global context. The book illustrates the differences between adaptation and mitigation, offers regional and global case studies of how adaptation and mitigation are inter-linked, and suggests six different metaphors for the strategic options to make climate change work for us, rather than against us. Offering practical solutions to climate change – both adaptation and mitigation – within the policy contexts in which these solutions have to be implemented, this book is valuable for researchers in varied related fields, as well policymakers in government, industry and NGOs.
- Provides an introduction to important and yet unpublished research without being technically demanding
- Allows readers to understand the challenges of adaptation alongside those of mitigation, illustrated with regional and global case studies of how adaptation and mitigation inter-link
- Leading climate change experts cover topics not much covered in IPCC assessments, to give readers a complete overview
Reviews & endorsements
Review of the hardback: 'Hulme and Neufeldt present detailed research on adaptation and mitigation strategies at a crucial time for European climate policy … will have a significant appeal for researchers and policy makers … this book could have an effective contribution to societies worldwide.' The Geographical Journal
Product details
December 2009Hardback
9780521119412
446 pages
253 × 178 × 26 mm
1.05kg
55 b/w illus. 14 colour illus.
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Table of Contents
- List of contributing authors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Part I. Concepts and Scenarios:
- 1. Climate policy and inter-linkages between adaptation and mitigation Henry Neufeldt
- 2. Climate change appraisal in the EU: current trends and future challenges Duncan Russell
- 3. Scenarios as the basis for assessment of mitigation and adaptation Detlef P. van Vuuren
- 4. National responsibilities for adaptation strategies: lessons from four modelling frameworks Asbjørn Aaheim
- 5. Learning to adapt: re-framing climate change adaptation Jochen Hinkel
- Part II. Strategies Within Europe:
- 6. How do climate policies work? Dilemmas in European climate governance Frans Berkhout
- 7. Transforming the European energy system Gunnar S. Eskeland
- 8. A risk management approach for assessing adaptation to changing flood and drought risks in Europe Reinhard Mechler
- 9. Mainstreaming adaptation in regional land use and water management Saskia E. Werners
- Part III. Strategies Beyond Europe:
- 10. Global climate governance after 2012: architecture, agency and adaptation Frank Biermann
- 11. The economics of low stabilisation: implications for technological change and policy Brigitte Knopf
- 12. Mainstreaming climate change in development cooperation policy: conditions for success Joyeeta Gupta
- 13. Insurance as part of a climate adaptation strategy Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer
- Part IV. Synthesis:
- 14. What can social science tell us about meeting the challenge of climate change? Five insights from five years that might make a difference Anthony Patt
- Appendix: description of models
- Index.
