Barbara Neumann, Athanasios T. Vafeidis, Juliane Zimmermann, Robert J. Nicholls
Coastal zones are exposed to a range of coastal hazards including sea-level rise with its related effects. At the same time, they are more densely populated than the hinterland and exhibit higher rates of population growth and urbanisation. As this trend is expected to continue into the future, we i...
Amartya Sen
Abstract The main focus of this book is on the causation of starvation in general and of famines in particular. The traditional analysis of famines concentrates on food supply. This is shown to be fundamentally defective—it is theoretically unsound, empirically inept, and dangerously misleading for ...
Clark Gray, Valerie Mueller
The consequences of environmental change for human migration have gained increasing attention in the context of climate change and recent large-scale natural disasters, but as yet relatively few large-scale and quantitative studies have addressed this issue. We investigate the consequences of climat...
As a global society, we need to take action not only to prevent the potentially catastrophic effects of climate change but also to adapt to the unavoidable effects of climate change already imposed on the world. Fairness in Adaptation to Climate Change looks at the challenges of ensuring that policy...
Thomas Tanner, David Lewis, David Wrathall, Robin Bronen et al.
Alexandre Magnan, E. Lisa F. Schipper, Maxine Burkett, Sukaina Bharwani et al.
This paper reviews the current theoretical scholarship on maladaptation and provides some specific case studies—in the Maldives, Ethiopia, South Africa, and Bangladesh—to advance the field by offering an improved conceptual understanding and more practice‐oriented insights. It notably highlights fou...
G. M. Monirul Alam, Khorshed Alam, Shahbaz Mushtaq
Adaptation is a key strategy that can alleviate the severity of climate change impacts on agriculture and food production. Adaptation strategies are unlikely to be effective without an understanding of the farmers’ perceptions of climate change. This paper explores the local knowledge of adaptation ...
Joyce Chen, Valerie Mueller
Md. Nasif Ahsan, Jeroen Warner
Pierre Taillardat, Daniel A. Friess, Massimo Lupascu
emissions, though its effectiveness differs with the spatial scale of interest. A literature review compiling carbon sequestration rates within key ecosystems confirms that blue carbon ecosystems are the most efficient natural carbon sinks at the plot scale, though some overlooked biogeochemical pro...
Jane McAdam
Abstract Displacement caused by climate change is an area of growing concern. With current rises in sea levels and changes to the global climate, it is an issue of fundamental importance to the future of many parts of the world. This book critically examines whether States have obligations to protec...
Ingrid Boas, Carol Farbotko, Helen Adams, Harald Sterly et al.
Koko Warner, Tamer Afifi
Up to present, research relating environmental change to human mobility has found out that environmental factors can play a role in migration without being conclusive. Further, in the context of climate change, scholarly literature on migration ranges across a host of climatic stressors and geograph...
Md. Monirul Islam, Susannah M. Sallu, Klaus Hubacek, Jouni Paavola
Globally, fisheries support livelihoods of over half a billion people who are exposed to multiple climatic stresses and shocks that affect their capacity to subsist. Yet, only limited research exists on the vulnerability of fishery-based livelihood systems to climate change. We assess the vulnerabil...
Aminul Islam, Rajib Shaw, Fuad Mallick