| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 182 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Introduction to the use of uncertainties to inform adaptation decisions / Roger B. Street and Carin Nilsson -- Background on uncertainty assessment supporting climate adaptation decision-making / Leendert van Bree and Jeroen van der Sluijs -- How is uncertainty addressed in the knowledge base for national adaptation planning? / Hans-Martin Füssel and Mikael Hildén -- Showcasing practitioners' experiences / Annemarie Groot, Ana Rovisco, and Tiago Capela Lourenço -- Making adaptation decisions under uncertainty : lessons from theory and practice / Tiago Capela Lourenço, Ana Rovisco, and Annemarie Groot |
| Summary |
Climate change highlights the challenges for long-term policy making in the face of persistent and irreducible levels of uncertainties. It calls for the development of flexible approaches, innovative governance and other elements that contribute to effective and adaptive decision-making. Exploring these new approaches is also a challenge for those involved in climate research and development of adaptation policy. Targeted specifically at policy developers and advisors, practitioners, climate knowledge brokers, researchers and interested adaptation decision-makers, this book differs from other titles addressing climate change adaptation and uncertainty by using real life cases to address distinct and pertinent uncertainties in actual adaptation situations. The authors introduce the role of uncertainties in informing adaptation decisions, showing why and how this is important, and why decisions do not have to wait until uncertainties are resolved. They explore uncertainty assessments supporting decision-making on climate change adaptation, with sections on variability, uncertainty typology, climate change, and projection of risks. A discussion of national adaptation planning follows with sections on sources and levels of uncertainty, communication of uncertainty, and guidance for adaptation planning under uncertainty. The book provides a dozen real-life examples of adaptation decision making in the form of case studies, and the concluding section outlines a new support framework for adaptation decisions under uncertainty, as well as guidance, recommendations and decision support for readers to apply in their own work. In the spirit of the newly adopted EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change, the book aims - as does the CIRCLE-2 project from which it emanates - to assist informed decision-making and to provide added value through increased knowledge sharing |
| Analysis |
klimaatadaptatie |
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climate adaptation |
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milieuwetenschappen |
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environmental sciences |
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milieutechniek |
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environmental engineering |
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aardsysteemkunde |
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earth system science |
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klimaatverandering |
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climatic change |
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milieu |
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environment |
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klimaat |
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climate |
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Climatic Change |
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Klimaatverandering |
| Bibliography |
Includes list of key terms, bibliographical references (pages 171-172) and at chapter ends, list of chapter reviewers, and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 21, 2014) |
| Subject |
Human beings -- Effect of climate on.
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Climatic changes
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Acclimatization.
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climate change.
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NATURE -- Ecology.
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NATURE -- Ecosystems & Habitats -- Wilderness.
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SCIENCE -- Environmental Science.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Ecology.
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Sciences de la terre.
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Environnement.
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Acclimatization
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Climatic changes
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Human beings -- Effect of climate on
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Capela Lourenço, Tiago., editor
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Rovisco, Ana., editor
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Groot, Annemarie., editor
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Nilsson, Carin, 1972- editor.
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Füssel, Hans-Martin., editor
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Bree, Leendert van., editor
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Street, R. B., editor.
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| ISBN |
9783319048765 |
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3319048767 |
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3319048759 |
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9783319048758 |
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9783319048772 |
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3319048775 |
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9783319353258 |
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331935325X |
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