Global Warming 2020

Making Climate Change Work for Us: European Perspectives on Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies (The Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies: Supporting European Climate Policy) Overview

Introducing the main challenges and opportunities of developing local, regional and global strategies for addressing climate change, this book explains the dilemmas faced when converting strategies into policies. Providing a synthesis of the findings of the three-year European Commission ADAM (Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies) research project and written by many leading interdisciplinary climate change research teams, European strategies for tackling climate change are placed within a global context. The book illustrates the differences between adaptation and mitigation, offers regional and global case studies of how adaptation and mitigation are inter-linked, and suggests six different metaphors for the strategic options to make climate change work for us, rather than against us. Offering practical solutions to climate change – both adaptation and mitigation – within the policy contexts in which these solutions have to be implemented, this book is valuable for researchers in varied related fields, as well policymakers in government, industry and NGOs.

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From the reviews: “The format of the book makes for easy reading and understanding and is excellent for forest management, climate change mitigation, and environmental scientists … . To be precise, Ravindranath, N. H. and Madelene Ostwald’s book is therefore outstanding. In my opinion, their book will soon become a ‘must in the field. The expertise of the authors coupled with an excellent organization and objective presentation of material will certainly make this book a great success among students, teachers, and researchers.” (Current Engineering Practice, 2008)

Carbon inventory requiring estimation of carbon dioxide emissions and removals in land-use categories for national greenhouse gas inventory and changes in stocks of carbon in projects aimed at climate change mitigation has become increasingly important in global efforts to address climate change. Hence, there is a need for a handbook that provides guidelines and methods r (more…)