Climate Change Adaptation Strategies - An Upstream-downstream Perspective /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2016.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2016. |
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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).