Regional Climate Change and Variability: Impacts and Responses (New Horizons in Regional Science series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1845425995 ISBN 13: 9781845425999

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

Integrated assessments of the impacts of, and adaptation to, climate change and variability at urban and regional scales are presented in this comprehensive volume. Six thematically distinct yet methodologically related projects illustrate ‘horizontal’ integration, which focuses on impacts and responses across different sectors, and ‘vertical’ integration, which traces changes from the climate system through to the economy and society. Areas of application include water resource allocation, wildfire management, agriculture, public health and urban infrastructure in the United States.

In its development of methodologies and their applications to individual regions, this book presents a rich set of insights and a set of guides for investment and policymaking. Each of the six studies focuses on a finer geographic scale than is customary in integrated assessment research. They introduce innovations for impact analysis and contribute to the knowledge of localized experiences of climate change – how it affects a variety of sectors, how different stakeholders perceive its implications and adapt to it, and how decision support systems can promote dialogues between researchers, stakeholders and policymakers.

The contributors’ conclusions will be of great interest to urban and regional planners, environmental scientists and engineers, physical and human geographers, ecologists, environmental and natural resource economists, public administrators, public service providers and utility managers, among others.

About this title

About the Author:

Edited by Matthias Ruth, Roy F. Weston Chair in Natural Economics, Director, Center for Integrative Environmental Research and Co-Director, Engineering and Public Policy Program, University of Maryland, College Park, US, Kieran Donaghy, Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning and Director, European Union Center, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, US and Paul Kirshen, Director of Water: Systems, Science, and Society (WSSS) Research and Graduate Education Program and Research Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University, US

Review:

`. . . a welcome addition to both the climate change and regional science literature. . .a resource for researchers in the field who are working to bridge the gap between climate research and the needs of local and regional decision makers who will design adaptive strategies in response to climate change. . . having some of the best regional climate impacts work in one place is reason enough to have this book on the shelf.' -- James Neumann, Journal of Regional Science

About this edition

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1845425995
• ISBN 13: 9781845425999
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Ruth Matthias, Donaghy Kieran, Kirshen Paul