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Innovation in Climate Change Adaptation

  • Walter Leal Filho
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Part of the Climate Change Management book series (CCM)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-ix
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  2. Innovation in Planning, Reforms, Technology and Transformative Processes

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 1-1
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    2. Innovative Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation
      Walter Leal Filho
      Pages 3-15
    3. Adaptation Planning Process and Government Adaptation Architecture Support Regional Action on Climate Change in New South Wales, Australia
      Brent Jacobs, Christopher Lee, Storm Watson, Suzanne Dunford, Aaron Coutts-Smith
      Pages 17-29
    4. Vulnerability Is Dynamic! Conceptualising a Dynamic Approach to Coastal Tourism Destinations’ Vulnerability
      Jillian Student, Bas Amelung, Machiel Lamers
      Pages 31-42
    5. Climate Injustice in a Post-industrial City: The Case of Greater Manchester, UK
      Aleksandra Kazmierczak
      Pages 43-61
    6. Reforms that Integrate Climate Change Adaptation with Disaster Risk Management Based on the Australian Experience of Bushfires and Floods
      Michael Howes
      Pages 63-73
    7. The CityTree: A Vertical Plant Filter for Enhanced Temperature Management
      Peter Sänger, Victor Splittgerber
      Pages 75-85
    8. Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation into Development in the Gambia: A Window of Opportunity for Transformative Processes?
      Hannes Lauer, Irit Eguavoen
      Pages 87-98
    9. Promoting Climate Smart Agriculture Through Space Technology in Nigeria
      Idowu O. Ologeh, Joshua B. Akarakiri, Francis A. Adesina
      Pages 99-112
    10. Trade-Offs Between Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Options for Resilient Cities: Thermal Comfort in Households
      Vera Gregório, Sofia Simões, Júlia Seixas
      Pages 113-129
    11. Adapting to Climate Change: Getting More from Spatial Planning
      Jeremy Carter, Graeme Sherriff
      Pages 131-144
    12. Adaptations to Possible Climate Change Impacts: Problem Structuring Based on VFT Methodology
      Luiz Priori, Marcelo Hazin Alencar, Adiel Teixeira de Almeida
      Pages 145-157
    13. Assessing Vulnerability to Support Promotion of Adaptive Agricultural Practices in the Sahel
      Alex Apotsos, David Miller, Brent Simpson
      Pages 159-173

  3. Innovation in Sectorial Approaches to Adaptation

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 175-175
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    2. Adaptation of the Artisanal Fisher Folks to Climate Change in the Coastal Region of Ondo State, Nigeria
      Mosunmola Lydia Adeleke, Matthias Wolff
      Pages 177-193
    3. Comparative Analysis of Woody Composition of Farmlands and Forest Reserve Along Afram River in a Tropical Humid Savanna of Ghana: Implications to Climate Change Adaptation
      Emmanuel Amoah Boakye, Dibi N’da Hyppolite, Victor Rex Barnes, Stefan Porembski, Michael Thiel, François N. Kouamé et al.
      Pages 195-209
    4. A Stochastic Weather Generator Model for Hydroclimatic Prevision in Urban Floods Risk Assessment in Abidjan District (Cote d’Ivoire)
      Jean Homian Danumah, Samuel Nii Odai, Mahaman Bachir Saley, Joerg Szarzynski, Kwaku Adjei, Fernand Koffi Kouame
      Pages 211-223
    5. Refining NHS Climate Change Adaptation Plans: Central Manchester University Hospitals Foundation Trust (CMFT) Case Study
      Oscar Nieto-Cerezo
      Pages 225-245
    6. Strategies for Climate Change Adaptation in Metropolitan Areas: Initiating, Coordinating and Supporting Local Activities: The Approach of Stuttgart Region, Germany
      Thomas Kiwitt, Silvia Weidenbacher
      Pages 247-260
    7. Influence of Climate Change on Cocoyam Production in Aba Agricultural Zone of Abia State, Nigeria
      C. C. Ifeanyi-obi, A. O. Togun, R. Lamboll
      Pages 261-273
    8. Between Intention and Action: Psychosocial Factors Influencing Action on Climate Change in Organisations
      Nadine Andrews, Stuart Walker, Kathryn Fahy
      Pages 275-287
    9. The Impacts of Climate Change on the Livelihood of Arable Crop Farmers in Southwest, Nigeria
      B. G. Abiona, E. O. Fakoya, J. Esun
      Pages 289-296
    10. Grassroots Technologies and Community Trust in Climate Change Adaptation: Learning from Coastal Settlements of Bangladesh
      Momtaj Bintay Khalil, Brent C. Jacobs, Natasha Kuruppu
      Pages 297-311
    11. Mainstreaming Resilience into Development Programming: A Practitioner’s Perspective
      Jacobo Ocharan, Ghislaine Guiran, Alison Wright
      Pages 313-326
    12. Wetlands Biodiversity, Livelihoods and Climate Change Implications in the Ruaha River Basin, Tanzania
      Pantaleo K. T. Munishi, Halima Kilungu, Nice Wilfred, Bernadetha Munishi, Stein R. Moe
      Pages 327-344
    13. Addressing the Financing Gap for Adaptation in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Countries
      Fiona Bayat-Renoux, Yannick Glemarec
      Pages 345-363
    14. Evaluating Differences in Barriers to Climate Change Adaptation Between the Poor and Nonpoor in Coastal Tanzania
      Frederick Ato Armah, Isaac Luginaah, Herbert Hambati, Ratana Chuenpagdee, Gwyn Campbell
      Pages 365-388

About this book

Introduction

This book introduces innovative approaches to pursue climate change adaptation and to support the long-term implementation of climate change policies. Offering new case studies and data, as well as projects and initiatives implemented across the globe, the contributors present new tools, approaches and methods to pursue and facilitate innovation in climate change adaptation.

Keywords

Climate Change Climate Change Adaptation Climate Change Politics Environmental Economics Innovation

Editors and affiliations

  • Walter Leal Filho
    • 1
  1. 1.Faculty of Life SciencesHamburg University of Applied SciencesHamburgGermany

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