Limits to Climate Change Adaptation

✍ Scribed by Walter Leal Filho, Johanna Nalau (eds.)

Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 408
Series: Climate Change Management
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book sheds new light on the limits of adaptation to anthropogenic climate change. The respective chapters demonstrate the variety of and interconnections between factors that together constitute the constraints on adaptation. The book pays special attention to evidence that illustrates how and where such limits have become apparent or are in the process of establishing themselves, and which indicates future trends and contexts that might prove helpful in understanding adaptation limits. In particular, the book provides an overview of the most important challenges and opportunities regarding adaptation limits at different temporal, jurisdictional, and spatial scales, while also highlighting case studies, projects and best practices that show how they may be addressed. The book presents innovative multi-disciplinary research and gathers evidence from various countries, sectors and regions, the goal being to advance our understanding of the limits to adaptation and ways to overcome or modify them.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xii
Introduction: Limits to Adaptation (Johanna Nalau, Walter Leal Filho)....Pages 1-8
Front Matter ....Pages 9-9
Strategies and Barriers to Adaptation of Hazard-Prone Rural Households in Bangladesh (G. M. Monirul Alam, Khorshed Alam, Shahbaz Mushtaq, Most Nilufa Khatun, Walter Leal Filho)....Pages 11-24
Governance Limits to Adaptation in Cambodia’s Health Sector (Daniel Gilfillan)....Pages 25-39
Land-Based Strategic Model by Integrating Diverse Policies for Climate Change Adaptation in Nepal (Adish Khezri, Arbind Man Tuladhar, Jaap Zevenbergen)....Pages 41-57
Climate Change and Migration in Bangladesh: Empirically Derived Lessons and Opportunities for Policy Makers and Practitioners (Johannes Luetz)....Pages 59-105
Front Matter ....Pages 107-107
Limits to Climate Change Adaptation in Zimbabwe: Insights, Experiences and Lessons (Nelson Chanza)....Pages 109-127
Pastoralists Shifting Strategies and Perceptions of Risk: Post-crisis Recovery in Damergou, Niger (Karen Marie Greenough)....Pages 129-142
Political Limits to Climate Change Adaptation Practices: Insights from the Johannesburg Case (Karen Hetz)....Pages 143-158
Constraints and Limits to Climate Change Adaptation Efforts in Nigeria (Idowu O. Ologeh, Joshua B. Akarakiri, Francis A. Adesina)....Pages 159-174
Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: Suitability of Banana Crop Production to Future Climate Change Over Uganda (Geoffrey Sabiiti, Joseph Mwalichi Ininda, Laban Ayieko Ogallo, Jully Ouma, Guleid Artan, Charles Basalirwa et al.)....Pages 175-190
Local Adaptation to Climate Extremes in Domboshawa: Opportunities and Limitations (Vincent Itai Tanyanyiwa, Rejoice Madobi)....Pages 191-208
Front Matter ....Pages 209-209
The Limits of Imagination (Liese Coulter)....Pages 211-226
Climate Change Adaptation in Coastal East Arctic Ecosystems: Complexity and Challenges of Monitoring and Evaluation (Moktar Lamari, Line Poulin-Larivière, Johann L. Jacob)....Pages 227-244
Limits to Adaptation on Climate Change in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Insights and Experiences (Goran Trbic, Davorin Bajic, Vladimir Djurdjevic, Vladan Ducic, Raduska Cupac, Đorđe Markez et al.)....Pages 245-259
Front Matter ....Pages 261-261
Climate Change Adaptation Limits in Small Island Developing States (Stacy-ann Robinson)....Pages 263-281
Limits to Coastal Adaptation in Samoa: Insights and Experiences (Richard Crichton, Miguel Esteban)....Pages 283-300
Limits to Capital Works Adaptation in the Coastal Zones and Islands: Lessons for the Pacific (Brendan Mackey, Daniel Ware)....Pages 301-323
A ‘Cost Barrier’ Perspective to Adaptation on a Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI) and Mangrove Rehabilitation Projects (MRP) in Solomon Islands (Michael Otoara Ha’apio, Walter Leal Filho, Morgan Wairiu)....Pages 325-343
Customary Land and Climate Change Induced Relocation: A Case Study of Vunidogoloa Village, Vanua Levu, Fiji (Dhrishna Charan, Manpreet Kaur, Priyatma Singh)....Pages 345-358
Limits to Adapting to Climate Change Through Relocations in Papua-New Guinea and Fiji (Dalila Gharbaoui, Julia Blocher)....Pages 359-379
Atoll Habitability Thresholds (Mark H. N. Stege)....Pages 381-399
Conclusions: Overcoming the Limits to Adaptation (Walter Leal Filho, Johanna Nalau)....Pages 401-410

✦ Subjects

Climate Change

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