Climate Change Adaptation Strategies – An Upstream-downstream Perspective

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Salzmann, Nadine (Editor), Huggel, Christian (Editor), Nussbaumer, Samuel U. (Editor), Ziervogel, Gina (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Environment.; Hydrology.; Climate change.; Climate Change.; Hydrology/Water Resources.; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.

Climate change and the related adverse impacts are among the greatest challenges facing humankind during the coming decades. Even with a significant reduction of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, it will be inevitable for societies to adapt to new climatic conditions and associated impacts and...

Table of Contents:

• Setting the scene: Adapting to climate change - a large-scale challenge with local-scale impacts (Salzmann)
• Adaptation, Adaptation Science, and the Status of Adaptation in Mountain Regions (McDowell)
• Science in the context of climate change adaptation - case studies from the Peruvian Andes (Orlowsky)
• Managing glacier related risks disaster in the Chucchún catchment, Cordillera Blanca, Peru (Muñoz)
• Climate Change Adaptation in the Carpathian Mountain Region (Werners)
• Community forest management as climate change adaptation measure in Nepal’s Himalaya (Rabin Raj)
• Ecosystem based adaptation (EbA) of African Mountain Ecosystems – Experiences from Mount Elgon, Uganda (Mumba)
• Vulnerability Assessments for Ecosystem based Adaptation: Lessons from the Nor Yauyos Cochas Landscape Reserve in Peru (Dourojeanni)
• The Role of Ecosystem-based Adaptation in the Swiss Mountains (Muccione)
• Community perceptions and responses to climate variability: Insights from the Himalayas (Pandit)
• Drought – in search of sustainable solutions to a persistent, ‘wicked’ problem in South Africa (Vogel)
• Making Climate Resilience a Private Sector Business: Insights from the agricultural sector in Nepal (Trabacchi)
• Shaping Climate Resilient Development – Economics of Climate Adaptation (Bresch)
• Building Resilience: World Bank Group Experience in Climate and Disaster Resilient Development (Kull)
• The science-policy dialogue for climate change adaptation in mountain regions (Kohler).