Climate Change Strategies: Handling the Challenges of Adapting to a Changing Climate, 1st ed. 2023 Coll. Climate Change Management

This book includes information, experiences, practical initiatives and projects around the subject matter and makes it available to a wide audience. It addresses the scientific, social, political and cultural aspects of climate change impacts and respective solutions in an integrated and coherent way.

Climate change as a global phenomenon imposes new challenges for survival. Extreme weather events including heat waves, storms, droughts as well as rising sea levels, warming oceans and melting glaciers threaten people's livelihoods and communities, ecosystems and habitats. Furthermore, it affects the entire food chain and increases competition for natural resources fuelling socioeconomic tensions. The results of the latest IPCC report highlight the urgent need for combating climate change. The adaptation measures to be undertaken range across sectors, thematic fields and geographical locations.

Based on this need, the book focuses on the high-quality, interdisciplinary contributions on the scientific, social, economic, political and cultural aspects of climate change challenges and solutions 

Preface.- Part 1- Assessing Climate Change Impacts.- Chapter 1- Impact of Climate Change and its Adaptation in the Semi-Arid Environment of Flood-Prone Dechatu Catchment, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia.- Chapter 2- Online consumption impact: Sustainable practices of young adults facing climate change.- Chapter 3- Rerouting food waste for climate change adaptation: the paths of research.- Chapter 4- Modeling climate resilient economic development.- Chapter 5- Local context of Climate Change Adaptation in the South-Western Coastal Regions of Bangladesh.- Chapter 6- Vulnerability Assessment on Agriculture in East Nusa Tenggara.- Chapter 7- National Integrated Coastal Zone Management Frameworks Need to Adapt.- Chapter 8- The Influence of Climate Factors in the Distribution of Birds.- Chapter 9- Effect of extreme climatic events on plant-pollinator interactions in blueberry.- Chapter 10- Understanding the Politics of Climate Change in Zimbabwe.- Chapter 11- Geospatial surveillance of Vicissitudes observed in the Land Surface Temperature of the Federal Capital of Pakistan over three decades.- Chapter 12- Mapping multi-decadal mangrove forest change in the Philippines: Vegetation extent and impacts of anthropogenic and climate-related factors.- Chapter 13- Anthropogenic Climate Change in the Mangrove-Dominated Indian Sundarbans: Spatio-Temporal Analyses, Future Trends, and Recommendations for Mitigation and Adaptation.- Part 2- Implementing mitigation and adaptation measures.- Chapter 14- Carbon Trading and Sustainable Development Goal 13: The Malaysia Perspectives.- Chapter 15- Composite Water Resources Management: A Decentralized Approach for Climate Change Adaptation.- Chapter 16- Innovative Ways to Mobilise Private Sector Capital in Climate Change Adaptation Investments in Developing Countries - Mechanisms and Forward-looking Vision from Practitioners’ Standpoint.- Chapter 17- Lessons in Adaptation and Innovation of Selected Local COVID-19 Responses in the Philippines.- Chapter 18- Climate change and disaster risk management policy integration in Pacific Island Countries: trajectories and trends.- Chapter 19- Mainstreaming agri-compatible virtual resource flows in agri-food system adaptation to climate change in the Caribbean.- Chapter 20- Climate change perceptions and adaptation strategies in vulnerable and rural territories.- Chapter 21- Human Mobility: The Invisible Issue in Climate Change Adaptation Policies The Case of Morocco.- Chapter 22- Written press´s approach to climate change in the Autonomous Region of Madeira and the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands.- Chapter 23- Indigenous Knowledge of Artisanal Fisherfolks on Climate Change Adaptation in Ondo State, Nigeria.- Chapter 24- Clarifying Local Government Policymakers’ Needs on Climate Change Science and Technologies: Experiences of science and policy deliberation at co-design workshops in Japan.- Chapter 25- Climate change adaptation: An overview of contextual factors constraining adaptation responses of smallholder agricultural producers.- Chapter 26- Spatial distribution modeling of Odonata in the New Aquitaine region (France): a tool to target refuge areas under climate change.- Chapter 27- Climate change, soil saturation, and risk of yield penalties to key cereal crops: a neglected issue in agri-food system adaptation.- Chapter 28- Soil fertility recovery at the Kara River Basin (Togo, West Africa): Local solutions at the interface of climate and land use change.- Chapter 29- Can biostimulants mitigate the negative impact of climate change on oliviculture?.-  Chapter 30- The vulnerability of small-scale fisheries-based livelihoods to climatic and non-climatic stressors in Kani Ward, Binga, Zimbabwe.- Chapter 31- Hydro-Meteorological Risk Emergency planning and management using big data as a platform.

Professor Dr. Walter Leal Filho holds the Chair of Environment and Technology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, and is Head of the Research and Transfer Centre “Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management” at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany. He has over 400 publications authored/edited books, book chapters and papers published in refereed journals.