Overview
- Covers climate issues in North America
- Congregates inputs from academics and practitioners
- Integrates policy-making, examples from projects and good practice
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Climate Change Management (CCM)
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This edited book responds to the need for a better understanding of how climate change affects North America and for the identification of processes, methods and tools that may help countries and communities to develop a more robust adaptive capacity. It showcases successful examples of how to manage the social, economic and environmental complexities posed by climate change. The book attempts to synthesize various branches of resilience and adaptation scholarship into a cohesive text that highlights field research and best practices that are shaping policy and practice in a wide geography from the coastal conditions of the Caribbean to the thawing landscape of the Arctic Circle.
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Climate Adaptation Management in Rural and Urban Areas
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Climate Change and the Built Environment
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Conflicts and Synergies: Adaptation, Resilience and Multi-hazard Mitigation
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Information, Communication, Education and Training on Climate Change
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Professor Jesse M. Keenan (A.B., M.Sc., Ph.D., J.D., LL.M., A.M., ASCE) is a member of the faculty of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University where he teaches courses and conducts research in resilience and adaptation science. Keenan has served as Vice-Chair of the U.S. Community Resilience Panel for Building and Infrastructure Systems under two White House administrations and as Editor of the Built Environment at climate.gov. Keenan has conducted climate adaptation research with various cities around the globe including Amsterdam, Boston, Miami, New York City (NYC), Rotterdam, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Stockholm and Tokyo. Keenan's many publications include, "Blue Dunes: Climate Change By Design."
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Climate Change Adaptation in North America
Book Subtitle: Fostering Resilience and the Regional Capacity to Adapt
Editors: Walter Leal Filho, Jesse M. Keenan
Series Title: Climate Change Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53742-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-53741-2Published: 07 June 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85232-4Published: 01 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-53742-9Published: 27 May 2017
Series ISSN: 1610-2002
Series E-ISSN: 1610-2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 354
Number of Illustrations: 33 b/w illustrations, 27 illustrations in colour
Topics: Climate Change, Climate Change Management and Policy, Corporate Environmental Management, Natural Resource and Energy Economics, North American Economics
Industry Sectors: Biotechnology, Finance, Business & Banking, Oil, Gas & Geosciences