Linking Climate Change Adaptation, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Loss & Damage

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-981-99-8054-3
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 558 g

This book advances knowledge on loss & damage (L&D) and its interlinkages with climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction. The book includes twelve case studies conducted across South and Southeast Asia, covering sectors including agriculture, rural livelihoods, energy, infrastructure and natural resources. These studies provide insights into complex climate-induced L&D, enhancing local, national and regional knowledge and contributing to global agendas.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wijenayake, Vositha

Stevenson, Linda Anne

Ismail, Nafesa

Takemoto, Akio

Ranjan, Amit

Mombauer, Dennis

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Meteorologie, Klimatologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
• Rechtswissenschaften Bürgerliches Recht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Flood-induced losses and damages to agricultural production and farmers’ mental wellbeing in Sri Lanka

Chapter 3: A people-centred approach to assess and address impacts of climate change-induced loss and damage

Chapter 4: Pillars of resilience: Assessing loss and damage at the local level

Chapter 5: A conceptual framework and research design for assessing losses and damages from climate change in vulnerable communities

Chapter 6: Towards effective loss and damage systems in disaster recovery contexts in Southeast Asia

Chapter 7: Identification of non-economic loss and damage (NELD) indicators and practices in the context of climatic events

Chapter 8: Climate change-induced migration in South Asia

Chapter 9: Priorities for addressing Slow-Onset Events (SOEs) in selected ASEAN countries

Chapter 10: SWOC analysis on the proposed linkage between Climate Change Adaptation (CCA), Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), and Loss and Damage (L&D): Case Studies in the low-lying coastal cities of Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam

Chapter 11: Linkages between disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in the context of increasing climate change-induced loss and damage in Vietnam

Chapter 12: Policy gaps and needs analysis for the implementation of NDCs on adaptation and loss and damage in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka

Chapter 13: Forward-thinking perspectives towards integrating climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction for synergetic resilience-building and addressing loss and damage

Über Autor(innen)

Vositha Wijenayake leads the work of SLYCAN Trust and is an attorney-at-law specializing in environmental and public international law. She has over a decade of experience in climate change and the UNFCCC process with a focus on adaptation,  resilience building, loss and damage,  gender, technology transfer,  finance,  and just transition.

Dr. Linda Anne Stevenson leads Knowledge Management and Scientific Affairs at APN. With 20+ years of experience, she oversees 60+ diverse global change projects, fostering capacity, facilitating science-policy-practitioner dialogues, and engaging with UNFCCC, IPCC and IPBES. Dr. Stevenson was an expert reviewer for IPCC's Working Group II 6th Assessment Report.

Dr. Akio Takemoto is Head of Programme and Administration at United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability, Tokyo. He served in a Director position at the Ministry of the Environment of Japan, Senior Environment Specialist at Global Environment Facility, and Director of Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research.

Dr. Amit Ranjan is a Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. His latest book is  Federalism and Inter-State River Water Disputes in India (2024,  Routledge: London and New York).

Dennis Mombauer is Director: Research & Knowledge Management at SLYCAN Trust. He has over a decade of expertise in research and management across private and development sectors. His research focuses on climate change, adaptation, loss and damage, climate finance, just transition, sustainable development, human mobility, ecosystem conservation, and related topics.

Dr. Nafesa Ismail is Senior Programme Officer at APN, managing national and regional projects in the Asia-Pacific region. She oversees knowledge generated from APN activities, including APN’s flagship Science Bulletin. Dr Ismail empowers early-career professionals in international research through proposal development training workshops and has engaged as expert reviewer in IPCC and IPBES assessments.