Climate Adaptation and Resilience: Challenges and Potential Solutions

Pascaline Gaborit

ISBN 10: 287574643X / ISBN 13: 9782875746436

Editore: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Aug 2022, 2022

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Neuware -Climate change is one of the major challenges of our time. Escalating climate disasters like storms, floods, and dry spells lead to disruptions, social conflicts, and unrest. This book elucidates the reality of climate adaptation related challenges and needs in vulnerable territories. It considers cities, land use, anticipatory governance, and the role of civil society, as well as early warning systems and nature-based solutions. The research also highlights major obstacles such as funding, knowledge gaps, trade-offs, social justice, and multi-stakeholder cooperation. The book is unique in that it unites a variety of perspectives and examples from different regions to develop a thorough and nuanced perspective on potential climate change solutions and the barriers to behavioral change at all levels of climate-related decision making.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 368 pp. Englisch.

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• Titolo: Climate Adaptation and Resilience: Challenges and Potential Solutions
• Editore: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Aug 2022
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 287574643X
• ISBN 13: 9782875746436
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 210 L x 148 A x 20 P (millimetri) 210 millimetri di larghezza per 148 millimetri di altezza per 20 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 476 grammi

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Climate change is one of the major challenges of our time. Escalating climate disasters like storms, floods, and dry spells lead to disruptions, social conflicts, and unrest. This book elucidates the reality of climate adaptation related challenges and needs in vulnerable territories. It considers cities, land use, anticipatory governance, and the role of civil society, as well as early warning systems and nature-based solutions. The research also highlights major obstacles such as funding, knowledge gaps, trade-offs, social justice, and multi-stakeholder cooperation. The book is unique in that it unites a variety of perspectives and examples from different regions to develop a thorough and nuanced perspective on potential climate change solutions and the barriers to behavioral change at all levels of climate-related decision making.