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

, by Edited by Mike Hulme , Henry Neufeldt

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ISBN: 9780521119412 | 0521119413
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Copyright: 1/18/2010

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Making climate Change Work for US is an introduction to the main challenges and opportunities of developing local, regional and global strategies for addressing climate change, and explains many of the dilemmas faced when converting strategies into policies.

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List of contributing authors	p. ix
Foreword: from EU Director-General José Manuel	p. xvii
Preface: The ADAM project	p. xix
Acknowledgements	p. xxvi
List of abbreviations	p. xxvii
Concepts and scenarios	p. 1
Climate policy and inter-linkages between adaptation and mitigation	p. 3
Climate change appraisal in the EU: current trends and future challenges	p. 31
Scenarios as the basis for assessment of mitigation and adaptation	p. 54
National responsibilities for adaptation strategies: lessons from four modelling frameworks	p. 87
Learning to adapt: re-framing climate change adaptation	p. 113
Strategies within Europe	p. 135
How do climate policies work? Dilemmas in European climate governance	p. 137
Transforming the European energy system	p. 165
A risk management approach for assessing adaptation to changing flood and drought risks in Europe	p. 200
Mainstreaming adaptation in regional land use and water management	p. 230
Strategies beyond Europe	p. 261
Global climate governance beyond 2012: architecture, agency and adaptation	p. 263
The economics of low stabilisation: implications for technological change and policy	p. 291
Mainstreaming climate change in development co-operation policy: conditions for success	p. 319
Insurance as part of a climate adaptation strategy	p. 340
Synthesis	p. 367
What can social science tell us about meeting the challenge of climate change? Five insights from five years that might make a difference	p. 369
Appendix: Description of models	p. 389
Index	p. 408
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