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| Place of Publication | Berlin, Germany : |
| Publisher's Name | Springer, |
| Date of Publication | 2014 |
| Extent | xvi, 344p. |
| Other Details | biographies, information boxes, figures (some colour), footnotes, references, tables |
| Series Responsibility - Personal | Schmidt, Michael (editor) |
| Series Statement Title | Environmental Protection in the European Union |
| Series Volume or Part | Volume 4 |
| Item Descriptor | Presenting a variety of ideas, approaches and tools regarding the adaptation to climate change in specific countries and regions. Rather than simply discussing strategies to counteract climate change by reducing emissions, the authors also search for ways of actively adapting to climate change |
| Formatted Content Note | Sections include - Adaptation to climate change in the international climate change regime - challenges and responses/ Tanzim Afroz and Mostafa Mahmud Naser; Advancing forest-related adaptation - options for adaptation-oriented REDD+/ Andrew Long; Innovation, adaptation and climate change law/ Elizabeth Burleson; Managing adaptation - developing a learning infrastructure in the United States' federal system/ Alejandro E Camacho; Adaptation strategies in the Netherlands/ Joyeeta Gupta, Judith E M Klostermann, Emmy Bergsma and Pieter Jong; Liability for damage caused by climate change - a way to internalize the costs of adaptation?/ Ingmar Piroch; Strategy development and risk management in the context of emission rights trading/ Magdalena MiBler-Behr and Sana Mehicic; The possibilities and potential advantages of the life cycle assessment in the framework of climate change mitigation/ Marek Gawor; Framework for analysing institutional capacity for wetland management - the case of the Gemenc floodplain/ Hendrike Clouting, Wim Douven, Elena Ostrovskaya, Beata Pataki and Klaas Schwartz; Adaptation to climate change in developing countries - a need in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria/ Chika Ubaldus Ogbonna; Climate change adaptation and biodiversity conservation - an economic perspective/ Frank Watzold; Economic instruments for integrating climate change considerations into development strategies of industrial regions in Ukraine - experience and issues/ Ludmila Palekhova; Risk management and climate change - a question of insurability/ Lars Krause and Terence Onang Egute; The cumulative impacts of climate change on subsistence agriculture in the Sudano-Sahel zone of Cameroon - enhancing adaptation policies/ Prosper Somah Techoro and Michael Schmidt; Climate change in Cameroon and its impacts on agriculture/ Cornelius M Lambi and Sunday S Kometa; Cameroon's sustainable forest management initiatives with potentials for climate change mitigation and adaptation/ Terence Onang Egute and Eike Albrecht; The Renewable Energy Source Act (EEG) as German way of a future-oriented energy policy change/ Andre Zschiegner and Emmanuel Wanki; Climate change effects on agriculture and water resources availability in Syria/ Bachar Ibrahim; Crowdsourcing and climate change - applications of collaborative information systems for monitoring and response/ Hendrik Send, Anna Riedel and Anna Hansch; and Beside adaptation - concepts for future/ Simon Spyra and Eike Albrecht |
| Level Content-Audience | Undergraduate |
| Subject Entry | Climate change - International cooperation Climate change - Government policy Climate change - Law and legislation Climatic changes Environmental law Environmental economics Environmental sciences Emissions - Climate change |
| Item Record | Status | Return | Accession No. | Note |
| 1. Main | Normal | Available | A0048981 |