Resilience. The Science of Adaptation to Climate Change

Table of Contents

PART 1: ADAPTATION NEEDS EVALUATING THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE 1. The state of climate change adaptation in international policy 2. The science of climate change and extreme event attribution 3. Adaptation needs: Gaps and priorities for action

PART 2: ADAPTATION ACTIONS BY HAZARD  4. Extreme Events 5. Sea Level Rise 6. Floods 7. Heat Waves

PART 3: ADAPTATION ACTIONS BY ECOSYSTEM 8. Mountain Ecosystems 9. Polar Regions 10. Dryland Ecosystems 11. Aquatic ecosystems 12. Coasts

PART 4: ADAPTATION ACTIONS BY DIFFERENT SECTORS 13. Agriculture and Food Security 14. Health 15. Urban Areas

PART 5: TOOLS AND METHODS FOR RESILIENCE 16. Evaluating Ecosystem Based Adaptation 17. The Role of Early Warning and Early Action 18. Insurance and Risk Transfer 19. Community-based adaptation 20. Public Private Partnerships 21. Investment in adaptation

PART 6: EMERGING NEEDS: BUILDING RESILIENCE 22. The Role of Innovation 23. The use of Challenges or Prizes 24. Loss and Damage and Limits to Adaptation 25. Validating what works and what doesn't the need for evidence

Authors

Zinta Zommers Mercy Corps, London, United Kingdom. Zinta Zommers is Mercy Corps' Head of the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance. A Rhodes and Commonwealth Scholar, she has graduate degrees in Zoology and Development Studies from the University of Oxford. Zinta worked with United Nations' Secretary-General's Climate Change Support Team, during the negotiation of the Paris Agreement, with United Nations Environment and with the Food and Agriculture Organization. She has advised the United States' Government and the Government of Sierra Leone, and has worked with vulnerable communities in over 10 countries across Africa and Asia. She previously coedited the book, Reducing Disaster: Early Warning Systems for Climate Change, and is a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Keith Alverson International Environmental Technology Center, UN Environment, Osaka, Japan. Keith Alverson has degrees in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and East Asian Studies from Princeton University (1988) and a doctorate in Physical Oceanography from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (1995). He has over 150 publications including Past Global Changes and Their Significance for the Future (Elsevier, 2000). He is currently Secretary General of the IUGG Union Commission on Climatic and Environmental Change and elected at-large member of the International Association for Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences Executive Committee.