Adapting to climate change is a critical problem facing humanity. This involves reconsidering our lifestyles, and is linked to our actions as individuals, societies and governments. This book presents the latest science and social science research on whether the world can adapt to climate change. Written by experts, both academics and practitioners, it examines the risks to ecosystems, demonstrating how values, culture and the constraining forces of governance act as barriers to action. As a state-of-the-art review of science and a holistic assessment of adaptation options, it is essential reading for those concerned with responses to climate change, especially researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and graduate students. Significant features include historical, contemporary, and future insights into adaptation to climate change; coverage of adaptation issues from different perspectives: climate science, hydrology, engineering, ecology, economics, human geography, anthropology and political science; and contributions from leading researchers and practitioners from around the world.
1 Adaptation now by W. Neil Adger and Irene Lorenzoni and Karen L. O'Brien 1
Pt. I Adapting to thresholds in physical and ecological systems 23
2 Ecological limits of adaptation to climate change by Garry Peterson 25
3 Adapting to the effects of climate change on water supply reliability by Nigel W. Arnell and Matthew B. Charlton 42
4 Protecting London from tidal flooding: limits to engineering adaptation by Tim Reeder and Jon Wicks and Luke Lovell and Owen Tarrant 54
5 Climate prediction: a limit to adaptation? by Suraje Dessai and Mike Hulme and Robert Lempert and Roger Pielke, Jr. 64
6 Learning to crawl: how to use seasonal climate forecasts to build adaptive capacity by Anthony G. Patt 79
7 Norse Greenland settlement and limits to adaptation by Andrew J. Dugmore and Christian Keller and Thomas H. McGovern and Andrew F. Casely and Konrad Smiarowski 96
8 Sea ice change in Arctic Canada: are there limits to Inuit adaptation? by James D. Ford 114
Pt. II The role of values and culture in adaptation 129
9 The past, the present and some possible futures of adaptation by Ben Orlove 131
10 Do values subjectively define the limits to climate change adaptation? by Karen L. O'Brien 164
11 Conceptual and practical harriers to adaptation: vulnerability and responses to heat waves in the UK by Johanna Wolf and Irene Lorenzoni and Roger Few and Vanessa Abrahamson and Rosalind Raine 181
12 Values and cost-benefit analysis: economic efficiency criteria in adaptation by Alistair Hunt and Tim Taylor 197
13 Hidden costs and disparate uncertainties: trade-offs in approaches to climate policy by Hallie Eakin and Emma L. Tompkins and Donald R. Nelson and John M. Anderies 212
14 Community-based adaptation and culture in theory and practice by Jonathan Ensor and Rachel Berger 227
15 Exploring the invisibility of local knowledge in decision-making: the Boscastle Harbour flood disaster by Tori L. Jennings 240
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