Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies for Climate Change

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sumi, Akimasa. (Editor), Fukushi, Kensuke. (Editor), Hiramatsu, Ai. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Subjects: Environmental sciences.; Meteorology.; Geography.; Climatic changes.; Economic policy.; Environment.; Climate Change.; Environment, general.; Meteorology/Climatology.; Geography (general).; Economic Policy.
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In recent decades there has been a growing awareness of how intricate the interactions are between human beings and the environment. Fortunately, progress has been made in understanding this relationship, and new technologies have been effective in addressing environmental problems. However belatedl...

Table of Contents:

• Part I Impacts of Climate Change .-1 Evaluating the Cost of Flood Damage Based on Changes in Extreme Rainfall in Japan .-So Kazama, Ayumu Sato, and Seiki Kawagoe .-2 Impact of Global Warming on Agricultural Product Markets: Stochastic World Food Model Analysis .-Jun Furuya and Shintaro Kobayashi .-3 Impacts of Climate Change on Lakes and Reservoirs Dynamics and Restoration Policies .-G.B. Sahoo and S.G. Schladow .-4 Study of Fishery Ground Around Indonesia Archipelago Using Remote Sensing Data .-Takahiro Osawa and Sigit Julimantoro .-5 Global Warming and Trans-Boundary Movement of Waterborne Microbial Pathogens .-Nicholas J. Ashbolt .-Part II Mitigation and Adaptation .-6 Designing Post-Kyoto Institutions: From the Reduction Rate to the Emissions Amount .-Tatsuyoshi Saijo and Hiroshi Hamasaki .-7 Mitigation Prospects and Challenges for India in Responding to Climate Change .-Ritu Mathur and Suruchi Bhadwal
• 8 Challenges to Substantial and Sustained Reductions in Greenhouse Gases: Opportunities for the United States from the Bottom-Up .-Stephen R. Connors
• 9 Scope and Roles of Adaptation to Climate Change .-Nobuo Mimura .-10 Adaptation of Fishing Communities in the Philippines to Climate Change .-Maria Rebecca Campos .-Part III Communication with Society About Climate Change .-11 Economy and Environment: How to Get What We Want .-Carl B. Becker .-12 A Mapping of Global Warming Research Based on IPCC AR4 .-Ai Hiramatsu, Nobuo Mimura, and Akimasa Sumi .-13 Science and Climate Change Policy Making: A Comparative Network Perspective .-Jeffrey Broadbent .-14 Environmental Communication Aimed at Household Energy Conservation .-Chizuru Nishio .-15 Bridging the Gulf Between Science and Society: Imperatives for Minimizing Societal Disruption from Climate Change in the Paci
  c .-Patrick D. Nunn .-16 Science, Culture, Education, and SocialEcological Systems: A Study of Transdisciplinary Literacies in Student Discourse During a Place-Based and Culture-Based Polynesian Voyaging Program .-Pauline W.U. Chinn .-Part IV Resource and Technology Governance for Sustainability .-17 Adaptive Governance: Proposals for Climate Change Science, Policy and Decision Making .-Ronald D. Brunner and Amanda H. Lynch .-18 Environmental Technology Policy in the US, from the 1970s into the Twenty-First Century .-George R. Heaton Jr. .-19 The Development and Diffusion Processes of Sustainable Technologies and Implications for Public Policy: A Case Study in Japan
• Kohta Juraku and Tatsujiro Suzuki .-20 Democratic Turn of Resource Governance in Japan: Prewar and Postwar Efforts for Integration in Resource Policy .-Jin Sato
• 21 Considering the Social Adaptation of an Infrastructure and the Consequence of Its Impact on Sustainability
• Takayuki Minato
• Index .