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Making Climate Change Work for Us : European Perspectives on Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies.

Contributor(s): Series: ADAM book series from Cambridge University PressPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010Description: xxxii, 413 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780521119412
  • 0521119413
  • 9781107671386
  • 1107671388
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.73874526 22
LOC classification:
  • QC903.2.E85 M35 2010
Other classification:
  • RB 10438
  • AR 23100
  • P467-05
Online resources:
Contents:
Climate policy and inter-linkages between adaptation and mitigation / Henry Neufeldt et al. -- Climate change appraisal in the EU : current trends and future challenges / Duncan Russel et al. -- Scenarios as a basis for assessment of mitigation and adaptation / Detlef P. van Vuuren et al. -- National responsibilities for adaptation strategies : lessons from four modelling frameworks / Asbjorn Aaheim et al. -- Learning to adapt : re-framing climate change adaptation / Jochen Hinkel et al. -- How do climate policies work? : dilemmas in European climate governance / Frans Berkhout et al. -- Transforming the European energy system / Gunnar S. Eskeland -- A risk management approach for assessing adaptation to changing flood and drought risks in Europe -- Mainstreaming adaptation in regional land use and water management / Saskia E. Werners et al. -- Global climate governance beyond 2012 : architecture, agency and adaptation / Frank Bierman et al. -- The economics of low stabilisation : implications for technological change and policy / Brigitte Knopf et al. -- Mainstreaming climate change in development co-operation policy : conditions for success / Joyeeta Gupta et al. -- Insurance as part of a climate adaption strategy / Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer et al. -- What can social science tell us about meeting the challenge of climate change? : five insights from five years that might make a difference / Anthony Patt et al.
Summary: Introducing the main challenges and opportunities of developing local, regional and global strategies for addressing climate change, this book explains the dilemmas faced when converting strategies into policies. Providing a synthesis of the findings of the three-year European Commission ADAM (Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies) research project and written by many leading interdisciplinary climate change research teams, European strategies for tackling climate change are placed within a global context. The book illustrates the differences between adaptation and mitigation, offers regional and global case studies of how adaptation and mitigation are inter-linked, and suggests six different metaphors for the strategic options to make climate change work for us, rather than against us. Offering practical solutions to climate change – both adaptation and mitigation – within the policy contexts in which these solutions have to be implemented, this book is valuable for researchers in varied related fields, as well policymakers in government, industry and NGOs.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Mesa Lab QC903.2 .E85 .M35 2010 1 Available 50583020034793
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Foothills Lab QC903.2 .E85 .M35 2010 2 Available 50583020034785
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Climate policy and inter-linkages between adaptation and mitigation / Henry Neufeldt et al. -- Climate change appraisal in the EU : current trends and future challenges / Duncan Russel et al. -- Scenarios as a basis for assessment of mitigation and adaptation / Detlef P. van Vuuren et al. -- National responsibilities for adaptation strategies : lessons from four modelling frameworks / Asbjorn Aaheim et al. -- Learning to adapt : re-framing climate change adaptation / Jochen Hinkel et al. -- How do climate policies work? : dilemmas in European climate governance / Frans Berkhout et al. -- Transforming the European energy system / Gunnar S. Eskeland -- A risk management approach for assessing adaptation to changing flood and drought risks in Europe -- Mainstreaming adaptation in regional land use and water management / Saskia E. Werners et al. -- Global climate governance beyond 2012 : architecture, agency and adaptation / Frank Bierman et al. -- The economics of low stabilisation : implications for technological change and policy / Brigitte Knopf et al. -- Mainstreaming climate change in development co-operation policy : conditions for success / Joyeeta Gupta et al. -- Insurance as part of a climate adaption strategy / Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer et al. -- What can social science tell us about meeting the challenge of climate change? : five insights from five years that might make a difference / Anthony Patt et al.

Introducing the main challenges and opportunities of developing local, regional and global strategies for addressing climate change, this book explains the dilemmas faced when converting strategies into policies. Providing a synthesis of the findings of the three-year European Commission ADAM (Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies) research project and written by many leading interdisciplinary climate change research teams, European strategies for tackling climate change are placed within a global context. The book illustrates the differences between adaptation and mitigation, offers regional and global case studies of how adaptation and mitigation are inter-linked, and suggests six different metaphors for the strategic options to make climate change work for us, rather than against us. Offering practical solutions to climate change – both adaptation and mitigation – within the policy contexts in which these solutions have to be implemented, this book is valuable for researchers in varied related fields, as well policymakers in government, industry and NGOs.

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