Climate Change Adaptation in Pacific Countries Fostering Resilience and Improving the Quality of Life

About this book

This book showcases vital lessons learned from research, field projects and best practice examples with regard to climate change adaptation in countries throughout the Pacific region, a part of the planet that is particularly vulnerable to and affected by climate change.The book's primary goals are to document the wealth of experiences in the region available today, to encourage cross-sector interactions among the various stakeholders in the region, and to help transfer results to other countries and regions. Accordingly, it gathers a set of papers presented at a symposium on climate change adaptation held in Fiji in July 2016, focusing on "Fostering Resilience and Improving the Quality of Life". In these contributions, local and international experts present a variety of initiatives showing how Pacific countries are coping with the many problems associated with climate change, including initiatives in education and awareness work taking place across the region, operational aspects and their implications for policy-making, and challenges in urban and rural areas.

Contents

Preface

Part 1: Implementing Climate Change Adaptation in Rural Areas and Communities
Part 2: Climate Change Adaptation, Resilience and Hazards
Part 3: Information, Communication, Education and Training on Climate Change
Part 4: Trends on Climate Change Adaptation

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Biography

Professor Walter Leal (BSc, PhD, DSc, DPhil, DL, DLitt, DEd) is a Senior Professor and Head of the Research and Transfer Centre "Applications of Life Sciences" at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany and at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has in excess of 250 publications to his credit, among which ground-breaking books such as Handbook of Climate Change Management and others. He teaches on information, education, communication on climate change at various European universities. He has over 20 years of research experience and has a particular interest in the connections between climate and human behaviour.