Climate Adaptation Governance in Cities and Regions: Theoretical Fundamentals and Practical Evidence

INDICE: 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

• ISBN: 978-1-118-45171-7
• Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 456
• Fecha Publicación: 08/07/2016
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés