Implementing Adaptation Strategies by Legal, Economic and Planning Instruments on Climate Change

by Michael Schmidt (editor)

1. Adaptation to Climate Change in the International Climate Change Challenges and Responses.- 2. Advancing Forest-Related Options for Adaptation-Oriented REDD+.- 3. Innovation, Adaptation and Climate Change Law.- 4. Managing Developing a Learning Infrastructure in the United States' Federal System.- 5. Adaptation Strategies in the Netherlands.- 6. Liability for Damage Caused by Climate Change - A Way to Internalize the Costs of Adaptation?.- 7. Strategy Development and Risk Management in the Context of Emission Rights Trading.- 8. The Possibilities and Potential Advantages of the Life Cycle Assessment in the Framework of Climate Change Mitigation.- 9. Framework for Analysing Institutional Capacity for Wetland Management - The Case of the Gemenc Floodplain.- 10. Adaptation to Climate Change in Developing A Need in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria.- 11. Climate Change Adaptation and Biodiversity An Economic Perspective.- 12. Risk Management and Climate A question of Insurability.- 13. The Cumulative Impacts of Climate Change on Subsistence Agriculture in the Sudano-Sahel Zone of Enhancing Adaptation Policies.- 14. Climate Change in Cameroon and its Impacts on Agriculture.- 15. Cameroon's Sustainable Forest Management Initiatives with Potentials for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation.- 16. The Renewable Energy Resource Act (EEG) as German Way of a Future-Oriented Energy Policy Change.- 17. Climate Change Effects on Agriculture and Water Resources Availability in Syria.- 18. Crowdsourcing and Climate Applications of Collaborative Information Systems for Monitoring and Response.- 19. Beside Concepts for the Future.

358 pages, Paperback

First published June 29, 2011