Climate Adaptation and Resilience: Challenges and Potential Solutions : Anticipatory Governance, Planning and Dialogue

Pascaline Gaborit

ISBN 10: 287574643X / ISBN 13: 9782875746436

Published by Peter Lang, 2022

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Climate change is one of the major challenges of our time. Escalating climate disasters like storms, floods, and dry spells lead to disruptions, social conflicts, and unrest. This book elucidates the reality of climate adaptation related challenges and needs in vulnerable territories. It considers cities, land use, anticipatory governance, and the role of civil society, as well as early warning systems and nature-based solutions. The research also highlights major obstacles such as funding, knowledge gaps, trade-offs, social justice, and multi-stakeholder cooperation. The book is unique in that it unites a variety of perspectives and examples from different regions to develop a thorough and nuanced perspective on potential climate change solutions and the barriers to behavioral change at all levels of climate-related decision making.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Climate Adaptation and Resilience: Challenges and Potential Solutions : Anticipatory Governance, Planning and Dialogue
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 287574643X
• ISBN 13: 9782875746436
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 210W x 148H x 20D millimeters 210 millimeters width by 148 millimeters height by 20 millimeters depth
• Weight: 476 grams

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Synopsis

Climate change is one of the major challenges of our time. Escalating climate disasters like storms, floods, and dry spells lead to disruptions, social conflicts, and unrest. This book elucidates the reality of climate adaptation related challenges and needs in vulnerable territories. It considers cities, land use, anticipatory governance, and the role of civil society, as well as early warning systems and nature-based solutions. The research also highlights major obstacles such as funding, knowledge gaps, trade-offs, social justice, and multi-stakeholder cooperation. The book is unique in that it unites a variety of perspectives and examples from different regions to develop a thorough and nuanced perspective on potential climate change solutions and the barriers to behavioral change at all levels of climate-related decision making.

About the Author

Pascaline Gaborit is the director and founder of the Pilot4dev think tank: www.pilot4dev.com. Her main research areas and interests include climate adaptation, resilience, security, oceans, cities international cooperation, culture, conflict prevention, and gender.