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Managing Adaptation to Climate Risk: Beyond Fragmented Responses

Autor Geoff O'Brien, Phil O' Keefe
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 iul 2013
Climate change is the single largest threat to the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and sustainable development. Addressing climate risk is a challenge for all. This book calls for greater collaboration between climate communities and disaster development communities. In discussing this, the book will evaluate the approaches used by each community to reduce the adverse effects of climate change. One area that offers some promise for bringing together these communities is through the concept of resilience. This term is increasingly used in each community to describe a process that embeds capacity to respond to and cope with disruptive events. This emphasizes an approach that is more focused on pre-event planning and using strategies to build resilience to hazards in an adaptation framework. The book will conclude by evaluating the scope for a holistic approach where these communities can effectively contribute to building communities that are resilient to climate driven risks.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415600941
ISBN-10: 0415600944
Pagini: 232
Ilustrații: 43 b/w images, 14 tables and 43 line drawings
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate

Cuprins

Introduction  1. The Sustainability Problem  2. The Climate Journey  3. Climate Extremes - Does a Post-normal Approach Make Sense?  4. Disaster Management  5. Adaptation  6. The Concept of Resilience  7. Development  8. Social Capital and Social Learning  9. Conclusion

Descriere

Resilience has become the new buzz word – in Government, Health, Energy and Disaster Management sectors. Climate change is the single largest threat to sustainable development, and addressing climate risk is a challenge for all.
This book calls for greater collaboration between climate communities and disaster development communities to tackle the challenges faced in addressing climate risk reduction. It evaluates approaches used by each community to reduce the adverse effects of climate change, and argues that adaptation focused on peoples’ livelihoods, rather than technology, is the best way to reduce risk. One area that offers some promise for bringing together these communities is through the concept of resilience: a process that embeds capacity to respond to and cope with disruptive events. The book explores various models of resilience and concludes by evaluating the scope for a holistic approach where these communities can build communities resilient to climate driven risks.
Managing Adaptation to Climate Risk provides a conceptual framework for future debate and will be of interest to students and researchers in Development Studies, Environmental Studies and Disaster Risk Reduction.