Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation

ISBN-13: 9783642386695 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 2198 str.

Walter Leal Filho

Opis

The Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation addresses the scientific, social, political and cultural aspects of climate change in an integrated and coherent way. The multi-volume reference focuses on one of the key aspects of climate change: adaptation and how to handle its impacts on physical, biotic and human systems, analyzing the social and normative scientific concerns and presenting the tools, approaches and methods aimed at management of climate change impacts. The high-quality, interdisciplinary contributions provides state-of-the-art descriptions of the topics at hand with the collective aim of offering, for a broad readership, an authoritative, balanced and accessible presentation of the best current understanding of the nature and challenges posed by climate change. It serves not only as a valuable information source but also as a tool to support teaching and research and as help for professionals to assist in decision-making.

Recenzje

"The Handbook ... with the simple goal to provide a comprehensive overview of how to handle climate change - and as such it doesn't disappoint. ... the Handbook provides you with the one go-to place to find your most burning questions answered quickly. ... All in all, this has been a highly informative read and I strongly recommend this for everyone who wants to dig deeper into all various aspects of Climate Change Adaptation." (Claudia Florowski, reegle Blog, blog.reegle.info, March, 2016)

Spis treści

Section 1: Climate Change Impacts and Management.- Section 2: Policy and Climate Change Section.- 3: Climate Change Adaptation, Agriculture and Water Security Section.- 4: Climate Change Adaptation Technologies.

O autorze

Professor Walter Leal (BSc, PhD, DSc, DPhil, DL, DLitt, DEd) is a Senior Professor and Head of the Research and Transfer Centre "Applications of Life Sciences" at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany and Chair of Environment and Technology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.