Climate Change Vulnerability
Measuring Impact and Developing Climate-Resilient Adaptation Options for Rural Livelihoods
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Beschreibung
This book addresses the crucial climate change challenges faced by rural communities, with a focus on how climate change affects their livelihoods. Those who are involved in developing climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies, particularly in resource-poor rural areas, will find this book to be invaluable.
The book explores region-specific adaptation studies to provide insights into the potential for these solutions to be adapted to other rural regions globally, leading to wider adoption of successful strategies. Key features: 1. spatial dimension of climate change vulnerability: it examines the geographic and environmental factors that influence rural communities' vulnerability to climate change, offering valuable insights into how vulnerability varies across different regions. 2. Climate-resilient adaptive strategies: it focuses on practical, community-based adaptive solutions that can help rural populations build resilience to climate impacts, highlighting successful case studies and adaptation models. 3. Sustainable development strategies: it provides guidance on formulating sustainable development strategies in the context of a changing climate, focusing on long-term solutions that enhance the viability of rural livelihoods and contribute to the achievement of SDG 15: Life on Land.
This book addresses the crucial climate change challenges faced by rural communities, with a focus on how climate change affects their livelihoods. Those who are involved in developing climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies, particularly in resource-poor rural areas, will find this book to be invaluable.
The book explores region-specific adaptation studies to provide insights into the potential for these solutions to be adapted to other rural regions globally, leading to wider adoption of successful strategies. Key features: 1. spatial dimension of climate change vulnerability: it examines the geographic and environmental factors that influence rural communities' vulnerability to climate change, offering valuable insights into how vulnerability varies across different regions. 2. Climate-resilient adaptive strategies: it focuses on practical, community-based adaptive solutions that can help rural populations build resilience to climate impacts, highlighting successful case studies and adaptation models. 3. Sustainable development strategies: it provides guidance on formulating sustainable development strategies in the context of a changing climate, focusing on long-term solutions that enhance the viability of rural livelihoods and contribute to the achievement of SDG 15: Life on Land.
Highlights the vulnerability of rural livelihoods to climate change Assesses the risk of climatic hazards on the livelihood security of rural areas across the globe Covers proposed strategies which aim to build resilience and explore community-based adaptive strategies
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Satyabrata Mandal
Themen in »Climate Change Vulnerability«
Extreme Weather Events Climatic Hazards Community-Based Risk Reduction Capacity Building Climate-Resilient Adaptation Strategies Livelihood Security Rural Livelihoods Socioeconomic Impacts