Free standard shipping on all orders
  • Visa
  • Master Card
  • American Express
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay
  • JCB

Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change: Scaling it up book cover

1st Edition

Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change Scaling it up

Edited By E. Lisa Schipper, Jessica Ayers, Hannah Reid, Saleemul Huq, Atiq Rahman Copyright 2014
304 Pages 33 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

300 Pages 33 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages 33 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
As climate change adaptation rises up the international policy agenda, matched by increasing funds and frameworks for action, there are mounting questions over how to ensure the needs of vulnerable people on the ground are met. Community-based adaptation (CBA) is one growing proposal that argues for tailored support at the local level to enable vulnerable people to identify and implement... Read more

Part 1: Introduction to Key Concepts  1. Up-scaling community-based adaptationL An introduction to the edited volume  2. Adaptive capacity  3. Adapting Development  Part 2: Making it Happen: Tools and framewords for scaling up CBA  4. Economics of CBA  5. Sustainable Financing Mechanism for Upscaling CBA  6. How is community-based adaptation 'scaled up' in environmental risk assessment? Lessons from Ecosystem Based Adaptation  7. Scaling-up the use of tools for community-based adaptation: Issues and challenge  8. Agriculture, Local Resilience and Climate Prediction Services  9. Serious Fun: Scaling Up Community Based Adaptation through Experiential Learning  Part 3: Scaling up CBA in sectors  10. Scaling Up Community Based Adaptation to Protect Community Health from Climate Change  11. Down Home it all Looks the Same: Building Synergisms between Community-based Disaster Risk Reduction (CBDRR) and Community-based Climate Change Adaptation (CBA)  12. Upscaling CBA in Agriculture  13. Community Participation in Urban Adaptation to Climate Change: Potential and Limits for CBA Approaches  14. Gender in Scaling up Community based Adaptation to Climate Change  15. When Disaster 16. The Role of Ecosystems in Climate Change Adaptation: Lessons fro Scaling Up

Biography

E. Lisa F. Schipper is an Associate at the Stockholm Environment Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.

Jessica Ayers is a Researcher with the Climate Change Group at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), UK.

Hannah Reid is a Consulting Researcher for the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), UK.

Saleemul Huq is a Senior Fellow with the Climate Change Group at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), UK.

Atiq Rahman is Executive Director of the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS), Bangladesh.

'As brought out clearly by the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) of the IPCC and the recently completed Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation, the impacts of climate change will require adaptation as a response to the challenge of climate change. This book highlights the importance of community based adaptation measures provides a wealth of knowledge, such that society across the globe can deal with the impacts of climate change to the extent possible through appropriate adaptation measures rooted in the capacity and strengths of local communities.' – Dr Rajendra K Pachauri, Chair of IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)

Add to Cart