European climate vulnerabilities and adaptation : a spatial planning perspective /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Schmidt-Thomé, Philipp
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Greiving, Stefan
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Chichester, West Sussex, UK : Wiley Blackwell, 2013.
• Θέματα: Climatic changes > Europe.; Climatic changes > Government policy > Europe.; Climatic changes > Economic aspects > Europe.; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.; Climatic changes.; Climatic changes > Economic aspects.; Climatic changes > Government policy.; Climatology.; Europe > Climate.; Europe.; Electronic books.

"Provides a comprehensive analysis of the impacts climate change might have on European regions and their local economies"--

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Title Page; Copyright; Biographies; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Chapter 1: Introducing the pan-European approach to integration on climate change impacts and vulnerabilities into regional development perspectives; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Further research; 1.3 Structure of the book; References; Chapter 2: Methodology for an integrated climate change vulnerability assessment; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Overview of the methodology; 2.3 Methodology in detail; 2.4 Methodological reflections; 2.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Identifying a typology of climate change in Europe
• 3.1 Introduction3.2 Methods applied; 3.3 Results and discussion; 3.4 Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: Climate change exposure assessment of European regions; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Future climate projections: the CCLM model; 4.3 Indicators on exposure to climatic stimuli; 4.4 Patterns of climatic changes across Europe; 4.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 5: Physical, environmental, social and cultural impacts of climate change on Europe's regions; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Physical impacts of climate change; 5.3 Environmental impacts of climate change; 5.4 Social impacts of climate change
• 5.5 Cultural impact of climate changeReferences; Chapter 6: Economic impacts of climate change on Europe's regions; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Agriculture and forestry; 6.3 Tourism; 6.4 Energy; 6.5 Combined economic impact of climate change; References; Chapter 7: Assessing adaptive capacity to climate change in European regions; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Adaptation and adaptive capacity; 7.3 Assessing adaptive capacity; 7.4 Mapping the adaptive capacity of European regions; 7.5 Enhancement of adaptive capacity in Europe; 7.6 Conclusion; References
• Chapter 8: Exploring mitigative and response capacities to climate change in European regions8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Regional capacities to mitigate climate change; 8.3 Regional GHG emissions; 8.4 Determinants of mitigative capacity; 8.5 Territorial potentials for mitigation of climate change; 8.6 Regional response capacity to deal with climate change; 8.7 Conclusion; References; Chapter 9: Overall impact and vulnerability to climate change in Europe; 9.1 Overall potential impact of climate change; 9.2 Vulnerability to climate change; 9.3 Conclusions; References
• Chapter 10: Role of case studies-methodological concept10.1 Case studies; References; Chapter 11: Integrated assessment of vulnerability to climate change: the case study North Rhine-Westphalia; 11.1 Introduction; 11.2 Description of the study area; 11.3 Past climatic changes and their impacts in the study area; 11.4 Methodology of an integrated vulnerability assessment; 11.5 Results; 11.6 Discussion; 11.7 Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 12: Climate change impacts on the Hungarian, Romanian and Slovak Territories of the Tisza catchment area; 12.1 Introduction