Successful Adaptation to Climate Change: Linking Science and Policy in a Rapidly Changing World
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Successful Adaptation to Climate Change: Linking Science and Policy in a Rapidly Changing World
Successful Adaptation to Climate Change: Linking Science and Policy in a Rapidly Changing World

Successful Adaptation to Climate Change: Linking Science and Policy in a Rapidly Changing World

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Susanne Moser (Contributor) Maxwell Boykoff (Contributor)  

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What does successful adaptation look like? This is a question we are frequently asked by planners, policy makers and other professionals charged with the task of developing and implementing adaptation strategies. While adaptation is increasingly recognized as an important climate risk management strategy, and on-the-ground adaptation planning activity is becoming more common-place, there is no clear guidance as to what success would look like, what to aim for and how to judge progress. This edited volume makes significant progress toward unpacking the question of successful adaptation, offering both scientifically informed and practice-relevant answers from various sectors and regions of the world. It brings together 18 chapters from leading experts within the field to present careful analyses of different cases and situations, questioning throughout commonly avowed truisms and unspoken assumptions that have pervaded climate adaptation science and practice to date. This book offers not one answer but demonstrates how the question of success in important ways is normative and context specific. It identifies the various dimensions of success, such as economic, political, institutional, ecological, and social, explores the tensions between them, and compiles encouraging evidence that resolutions can be found. The book appraises how climatic and non-climatic stressors play a role, what role science does and can play in adaptation decision making, and how trade-offs and other concerns and priorities shape adaptation planning and implementation on the ground. This is timely interdisciplinary text sheds light on key issues that arise in on-the-ground adaptation to climate change. It bridges the gap between science and practical application of successful adaptation strategies and will be of interest to both students, academics and practitioners. 10 Tables, black and white; 18 Line drawings, black and white; 3 Halftones, black and white; 21 Illustrations, black and white
Susanne C. Moser is Director of Susanne Moser Research & Consulting and a Social Science Research Fellow at Stanford's Woods Institute for the Environment. She is an internationally recognized expert on adaptation, vulnerability, and resilience; climate change communication for social change; and science--policy interactions.Maxwell T. Boykoff is an Assistant Professor and Fellow in the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) and Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado. Max also is a Senior Visiting Research Associate in the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford.
  • Contributor: Susanne Moser
  • Imprint: Routledge
  • ISBN13: 9780415525008
  • Number of Pages: 360
  • Packaged Dimensions: 156x234mm
  • Packaged Weight: 670
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Release Date: 2013-06-07
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Susanne C. Moser is Director of Susanne Moser Research & Consulting and a Social Science Research Fellow at Stanford's Woods Institute for the Environment. She is an internationally recognized expert on adaptation, vulnerability, and resilience; climate change communication for social change; and science--policy interactions.Maxwell T. Boykoff is an Assistant Professor and Fellow in the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) and Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado. Max also is a Senior Visiting Research Associate in the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford.

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