Climate Risk and Resilience in China (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Nadin, Rebecca; Yinlong, Xu; Opitz-Stapleton, Sarah

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a fascinating glimpse into the ways a country with such varying topography, a large population and inconsistent socio-economic development is developing approaches to tackle and respond to the challenges and opportunities presented by a changing climate. Using research and data from the Adapting to Climate Change in China (ACCC) project, the first and largest research-to-policy project of its kind ever attempted in China, Chinese and international scientists have come together to produce cutting-edge regional models, and Chinese policy makers assess future impacts of and vulnerability to climate change. The book also uses interviews with those individuals who have to bear the brunt of climate change to give a more human voice to what has become a political and scientific issue.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317593751
• Artikelnr.: 43983154

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Nadin is Regional Director of INTASAVE Asia-Pacific, and Director of the Adapting to Climate Change in China Project Phase II (ACCC II). She is also an adjunct lecturer at the Centre for Environment and Population Health, Griffith University, Australia. She previously was director of ACCC Phase I. She also worked as the Deputy Director of the British Council's Global Climate Change Programme and Director of the China Climate Change Programme. Sarah Opitz-Stapleton is a Senior Scientist with INTASAVE Asia-Pacific, and Chief Scientist to the Adapting to Climate Change in China Project Phase II (ACCC II). She was previously a technical adviser to ACCC I. She is also a Senior Associate Scientist with the Institute for Social and Environmental Transition International (ISET-Int) and an independent research scientist with Staplets Consulting. Xu Yinlong is Professor of the Climate Change Lab, Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture (IEDA), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS). He was the Chief Scientist of China's Tenth Five Year (2001-2005) and Eleventh Five Year (2006-2010) National Key Technologies R&D Program Project on Climate Change VIA Assessments.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Introduction to Adaptation Processes and China's Development Context
1. Climate Change Adaptation Planning to Policy: Critical Considerations
and Challenges 2. China's Complex Development Context and Adaptation
Challenge Part 2 Climate Change Risks in Five Chinese Sectors 3. Adapting
Against Disasters in a Changing Climate 4. A Balancing Act: China's Water
Resources and Climate Change 5. Feeding China 6. Grasslands and Livestock
7. Human Health, Well Being and Climate Change in China Part 3 Social
Vulnerability and Climate Risks in Three Provinces 8. Ningxia 9. Climate
Change and Inner Mongolia 10. Guangdong Part 4 Adaptation Planning and
Policy in China 11. Adaptation Policy and Planning in China: Developments
and Future Direction