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Climate Adaptation Futures: Palutikof/Climate Adaptation Futures by Palutikof, Jean (editor);Boulter, Sarah L. (editor);Ash, Andrew J. (editor);Smith, Mark Stafford (editor);Parry, Martin (editor);Waschka, Marie (editor);Guitart, Daniela (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Climate Adaptation Futures: Palutikof/Climate Adaptation Futures about?

Adaptation is the poor cousin of the climate change challenge - the glamour of international debate is around global mitigation agreements, while the bottom-up activities of adaptation, carried out in community halls and local government offices, are often overlooked. Yet, as international forums fail to deliver reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the world is realising that effective adaptation will be essential across all sectors to deal with the unavoidable impacts of climate change. The need to understand how to adapt effectively, and to develop appropriate adaptation options and actions, is becoming increasingly urgent. This book reports the current state of knowledge on climate change adaptation, and seeks to expose and debate key issues in adaptation research and practice. It is framed around a number of critical areas of adaptation theory and practice, including: Advances in adaptation thinking, Enabling frameworks and policy for adaptation, Engaging and communicating with practitioners, Key challenges in adaptation and development, Management of natural systems and agriculture under climate change, Ensuring water security under a changing climate, Urban infrastru

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Palutikof, Jean (editor);Boulter, Sarah L. (editor);Ash, Andrew J. (editor);Smith, Mark Stafford (editor);Parry, Martin (editor);Waschka, Marie (editor);Guitart, Daniela (editor)
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell, A John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Published
2013
Language
EN
ISBN
9781118529478
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Science, Social Science, Physics

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