Natural Disasters and Adaptation to Climate ChangeSarah Boulter, Jean Palutikof, David John Karoly, Daniela Guitart This volume presents eighteen case studies of natural disasters from Australia, Europe, North America and developing countries. By comparing the impacts, it seeks to identify what moves people to adapt, which adaptive activities succeed and which fail, and the underlying reasons, and the factors that determine when adaptation is required and when simply bearing the impact may be the more appropriate response. Much has been written about the theory of adaptation and high-level, especially international, policy responses to climate change. This book aims to inform actual adaptation practice - what works, what does not, and why. It explores some of the lessons we can learn from past disasters and the adaptation that takes place after the event in preparation for the next. This volume will be especially useful for researchers and decision makers in policy and government concerned with climate change adaptation, emergency management, disaster risk reduction, environmental policy and planning. |
Contents
| 1 | |
A few words on Andrew W Garcia | 20 |
A brief history of flooding and flood control measures along | 31 |
The 2003 and 2007 wildfires in southern California | 42 |
thirty years of lessons learned from | 53 |
from disaster policy | 67 |
adapting to bushfires in a changing climate | 75 |
Adaptation and resilience in two floodprone Queensland communities | 95 |
Adapting to drought in the West African Sahel | 149 |
the case of the 2007 cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh | 167 |
a case study of the 19971998 | 181 |
Disasters and development | 199 |
What next? Climate change as a gamechanger for policy and practice | 209 |
cautionary notes | 223 |
Lessons learned for adaptation to climate change | 236 |
floods storms fire and pestilence disaster risk in Australia | 252 |
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