Climate Adaptation Governance in Cities and Regions (eBook, PDF)

Theoretical Fundamentals and Practical Evidence
Redaktion: Knieling, Jörg

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Global climate change creates new challenges in particular for cities and regions. As centres of human activity they are especially vulnerable to climate change impacts. Adapting to a changing climate requires dealing with multiple uncertainties and complexity in order to allow proactive action. Therefore, cities and regions around the globe face the challenge of exploring flexible and innovative forms of governance which have to address specific local or regional vulnerabilities and build capacity to accommodate future change. This raises questions about the roles of stakeholders, the involvement of citizens, the composition and use of formal and informal instruments as well as the implementation of different forms of organization and regulation at the local and regional level. This book provides case studies from cities and regions all around the world. It analyses climate change adaptation from a perspective of organizing, administering and implementing local and regional adaptation strategies and measures. It looks into actors, actor-constellations, institutions and networks of climate adaptation. And, it provides the reader with knowledge about good practices and experiences to be transferred for solving adaptation challenges in cities and regions around the globe.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in D ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118451700
• Artikelnr.: 45055624

Autorenporträt

Jörg Knieling is head of the Institute for Urban Planning and Regional Development of HafenCity University Hamburg, Germany, and Visiting Professor at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. His research has focused on strategies, instruments and the governance of sustainable urban and regional development as well as climate change adaptation and mitigation on the levels of cities and regions. He has been involved in various national and international research projects and scientific boards dealing with questions of urban and regional climate adaptation.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors

Chapter 1 Climate adaptation governance in cities and regions: Framework conditions, theoretical concepts and research questions

Chapter 2 Applying Social Resilience Concepts and Indicators to Support Climate Adaptation in Tropical North Queensland, Australia

Chapter 3 Spatial planning to promote urban resilience in coping with climate change and flooding: exploring two cases in Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Chapter 4 Adaptation to climate change and Participatory Action Research (PAR): lessons from municipalities in Quebec, Canada

Chapter 5 Generating narratives on future risk to inform regional climate change adaptation planning

Chapter 6 Advancing climate change adaptation and climate risk understanding through intervention research: cased studies from Brazil and Australia

Chapter 7 Climate Adaptation and the Significance of Different Modes of Local Political Leadership: Views of Swedish Local Political Leaders

Chapter 8 Regulating climate change adaptation, the case of surface water

Chapter 9 Climate Adaptation Governance - Theory, Concepts and Praxis in Cities and Regions. The Role of Climate and Water Governance in Supporting Climate Change Adaptation Processes

Chapter 10 Climate problem and territorial governance: an overview of adaptation initiatives at the French regional level

Chapter 11 Regional re-scaling in UK adaptation governance: from agency to collaborative control in flood management?

Chapter 12 From case studies to policy-making: Adapting to climate change in Lithuania

Chapter 13 The Rise and Fall of Climate Adaptation Governance on the Gold Coast, Australia

Chapter 14 Climate change adaptation in private real estate development: essential concepts about development for feasible research, regulation and governance

Chapter 15 Pro-poor climate change adaptation in Zambia

Chapter 16 Climate change adaptation through hierarchies and networks in the city of Bergen

Chapter 17 Climate Adaptation Governance - Theory, Concepts and Praxis in Cities and Regions

Chapter 18 Public participation in the governance of metropolitan scale climate adaptation: panacea or problem?

Chapter 19 Governance for (climate) change in American "Legacy" cities: A case study of Cleveland

Chapter 20 Governance of climate change adaptation on Small Island Developing States (SIDS)

Chapter 21 Adaptation in small coastal towns in Australia

Chapter 22 Transnational learning for climate change adaptation in the Baltic Sea Region

Chapter 23 Climate Adaptation Governance in Cities and Regions between Hierarchical Steering and Network Cooperation: Findings from Theoretical Considerations and International

Index