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Climate Change and Vulnerability and Adaptation : Two Volume Set by Leary N. (ed.), Adejuwon J. (ed.), Kulkarni J. (ed.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Climate Change and Vulnerability and Adaptation : Two Volume Set about?

Climate Change and Adaptation covers current practices for managing climate risks to food security, water resources, livelihoods, human health and infrastructure, deficits between current practices and needs for effective management of climate risks, the changing nature of the risks due to human-caused climate change, strategies for adapting to climate change to lessen the risks, and the need to integrate these strategies into development planning and resource management. The book also identifies obstacles to effective adaptation and explore measures needed to create conditions that are favorable to climate change adaptation. The findings and lessons will be of use to policymakers and managers responsible forunderstanding and avoiding potentially adverse effects from climate change on sustainable development, food security, agriculture, water resources, forests, fisheries, grazing lands, biodiversity and public health. Citizen activists who are concerned about reducing the threats from climate change to the poor, sustainable development, biodiversity, and sensitive environmental systems and resources will learn about options for management of the threats.

Who reads Climate Change and Vulnerability and Adaptation : Two Volume Set?

Author

Leary N. (ed.), Adejuwon J. (ed.), Kulkarni J. (ed.)

Publisher

Earthscan Publications Ltd.; Routledge; Earthscan

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781134072897

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Nature, Sociology, Political Science