Adapting to an Uncertain Climate: Lessons From Practice

✍ Scribed by Tiago Capela Lourenço, Ana Rovisco, Annemarie Groot, Carin Nilsson, Hans-Martin Füssel, Leendert Van Bree, Roger B. Street (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 200
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Climate change highlights the challenges for long-term policy making in the face of persistent and irreducible levels of uncertainties. It calls for the development of flexible approaches, innovative governance and other elements that contribute to effective and adaptive decision-making. Exploring these new approaches is also a challenge for those involved in climate research and development of adaptation policy.

The book provides a dozen real-life examples of adaptation decision making in the form of case studies:

· Water supply management in Portugal, England and Wales and Hungary

· Flooding, including flood risk in Ireland, coastal flooding and erosion in Southwest France, and flood management in Australia’s Hutt River region

· Transport and utilities, including the Austrian Federal railway system, public transit in Dresden, and Québec hydro-electric power

· Report examining communication of large numbers of climate scenarios in Dutch climate adaptation workshops.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Introduction to the Use of Uncertainties to Inform Adaptation Decisions....Pages 1-16
Background on Uncertainty Assessment Supporting Climate Adaptation Decision-Making....Pages 17-40
How Is Uncertainty Addressed in the Knowledge Base for National Adaptation Planning?....Pages 41-66
Showcasing Practitioners’ Experiences....Pages 67-137
Making Adaptation Decisions Under Uncertainty: Lessons from Theory and Practice....Pages 139-162
Back Matter....Pages 163-182

✦ Subjects

Climate Change; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts; Climate Change Management and Policy; Climate, general; Environmental Science and Engineering; Earth System Sciences