Adapting to a Changing Environment: Confronting the Consequences of Climate Change

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Tim R. McClanahan (Senior Conservation Zoologist, Senior Conservation Zoologist, Wildlife Conservation Society) Joshua Cinner (Senior Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University)

Adapting to a Changing Environment

Confronting the Consequences of Climate Change

Tim R. McClanahan (Senior Conservation Zoologist, Senior Conservation Zoologist, Wildlife Conservation Society), Joshua Cinner (Senior Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University)

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Oxford University Press Inc
26 January 2012

Ecological science, the Biosphere; Coral reefs; Management of land & natural resources; Global warming; Social impact of environmental issues

For those who depend on the bounty of the sea for their livelihoods, climate change and its consequences (warming water, coral bleaching, rising sea levels) could spell disaster. The region comprising the eastern coastline of Africa and the islands of the western Indian Ocean--home to many of the Earth's most impoverished people--is particularly vulnerable to significant climate impacts.

Focusing on coral reef fisheries in these areas, which collectively support millions of people, this book provides a tool box of options for confronting the consequences of climate change through building local-scale adaptive capacity and improving the condition of natural resources. This requires strengthening a society's flexibility, assets, learning, and social organizations, as well as restricting or limiting its resource use. These two broad concepts--building social capacity and limiting certain types of resource use--interact in complicated ways, requiring coordinated actions. The authors argue that adaptation solutions are context dependent, determined in part by local resource conditions, human adaptive capacity, and exposure to climate change impacts, but also by a people's history, culture, and aspirations.

Providing an up-to-date and original synthesis of environmental stress, natural resources, and the socioeconomics of climate change, Adapting to a Changing Environment develops a framework to provide governments, scientists, managers, and donors with critical information about local context, encouraging the implementation of nuanced actions that reflect local conditions.

By: Tim R. McClanahan (Senior Conservation Zoologist Senior Conservation Zoologist Wildlife Conservation Society), Joshua Cinner (Senior Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 430g
ISBN: 9780199754489
ISBN 10: 0199754489
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 26 January 2012
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tim McClanahan is a Senior Conservation Zoologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society. His science and conservation work focuses on tropical fisheries, climate change, ecology, and management of coral reefs. Joshua Cinner is Senior Research Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University. A human geographer, his research explores how poverty and other socioeconomic conditions influence how people use and govern natural resources.

Reviews for Adapting to a Changing Environment: Confronting the Consequences of Climate Change

While this book has the magic words climate change in its subtitle, many of the issues it addresses would be critical even if global temperatures were static or cooling. McClanahan and Cinner focus on the local and regional impacts of climate change to coastal ecosystems and societies.. . Their concern and thorough research of these issues is the strength of their book. -- Natural Hazards Observer While this book has the magic words climate change in its subtitle, many of the issues it addresses would be critical even if global temperatures were static or cooling. McClanahan and Cinner focus on the local and regional impacts of climate change to coastal ecosystems and societies.. . Their concern and thorough research of these issues is the strength of their book. -- Natural Hazards Observer