Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 430 g
Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 430 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-975448-9
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
Focusing on coral reef fisheries in these areas, which collectively support millions of people, this book provides a tool box of options for confronting the consequences of climate change through building local-scale adaptive capacity and improving the condition of natural resources. This requires strengthening a society's flexibility, assets, learning, and social organizations, as well as restricting or limiting its resource use. These two broad concepts--building social capacity and limiting certain types of resource use--interact in complicated ways, requiring coordinated actions. The authors argue that adaptation solutions are context dependent, determined in part by local resource conditions, human adaptive capacity, and exposure to climate change impacts, but also by a people's history, culture, and aspirations.
Providing an up-to-date and original synthesis of environmental stress, natural resources, and the socioeconomics of climate change, Adapting to a Changing Environment develops a framework to provide governments, scientists, managers, and donors with critical information about local context, encouraging the implementation of nuanced actions that reflect local conditions.
Zielgruppe
1) scientific managers (i.e., protected area and fisheries managers) responsible for making decisions about environmental problems; 2) graduate and undergraduate students working on multi-disciplinary environmental problems; 3) other readers interested in potential solutions for climate change.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Korallenriffe
- Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
- Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
- Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Soziale & wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen von Umweltfaktoren
Weitere Infos & Material
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Climate change, resources, and human adaptation
2. The global context of marine fisheries
3. Climate change and oceanography
4. Change and resilience of coral reefs
5. Climate change and coral reef fishes and fisheries
6. Vulnerability of coastal communities
7. Coastal communities' responses to disturbance
8. Linking the social, ecological, and environmental systems
9. Building adaptive capacity
10. Managing ecosystems for change
11. Confronting the consequences of climate change
Bibliography
Index