Innovation in Climate Change Adaptation

This book introduces innovative approaches to pursue climate change adaptation and to support the long-term implementation of climate change policies. Offering new case studies and data, as well as projects and initiatives implemented across the globe, the contributors present new tools, approaches and methods to pursue and facilitate innovation in climate change adaptation.

List of contents

Preface.- Part I: Innovation in Planning, Reforms, Technology and Transformative Processes.- Part II: Innovation in Sectorial Approaches to Adaptation.

About the author

Professor Walter Leal Filho (BSc, PhD, DSc, DPhil, DL, DLitt, DEd) is a Senior Professor and Head of the Research and Transfer Centre "Applications of Life Sciences" at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany and at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK).  He is the Director of the "International Climate Change Information Programme (ICCIP) and founding editor of  the "Climate Change Management Series", serving in the editorial board of various journals. He has in excess of 300 publications to his credit, and over 25 years of research experience on the connections between environmental management, sustainability, climate and human behaviour.

Summary

This book introduces innovative approaches to pursue climate change adaptation and to support the long-term implementation of climate change policies. Offering new case studies and data, as well as projects and initiatives implemented across the globe, the contributors present new tools, approaches and methods to pursue and facilitate innovation in climate change adaptation.

Product details

• Assisted by: Walte Leal (Editor), Walter Leal (Editor), Walter Leal Filho (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9783319258126
• ISBN: 978-3-31-925812-6
• No. of pages: 388
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 242 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 748 g
• Illustrations: IX, 388 p. 89 illus., 47 illus. in color.
• Series: Climate Change Management; Climate Change Management
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; B, Climate Change, The environment, Environmental Economics, Economics and Finance, Meteorology and climatology, Management science, Earth System Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Climate Change Management and Policy