Climate Change Research at Universities: Addressing the Mitigation and Adaptation Challenges

Book Overview

Part 1- Research and Education on Climate Change Mitigation.- Integrating farmer's traditional knowledge and practices into climate change sectoral development planning: Case studies from India.- Roof top farming a solution to food security and climate change adaptation for cities.- Modeling and monitoring of air quality in Greater Cairo Region, Egypt using Landsat-8 images, HYSPLIT and GIS based analysis.- Going Fossil Free: A Lesson in Climate Activism and Collective Responsibility.- Philippine Higher Education Institutions' Responses to Climate Change.- Adapting Sri Lanka to Climate Change: approaches to water modelling in the Upper Mahaweli Catchment Area.- The Challenges and Opportunities for Higher Education Institutions at the Science-Policy Interface.- Study of the vulnerability of basic social infrastructure of the Mexico s north border for purposes of resiliency and adaptation to the adverse effects of climate change.- Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Studies in Nigeria Universities: Achievements, Challenges and Prospects.- Landslide Loss and Damage in Darbung Village, Gorkha District, Nepal.- Adaptations to Climate Change in Bangladesh: Development of a National Inventory.- Implementing Heat-Related Adaptation Measures in the Tri-City Area Bergisches St?dtedreieck.- Legacy of authoritative environmentalism and path-dependent historic institutionalism in the climate change policy dynamics of the Maldives.- Part 2- Research and Education on Climate Change Adaptation.- Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change in Egypt - Status Quo and Future Policies.- Climate change and Extremes over Dabaa Region, Egypt.- Climate change adaptation in yam and cassava production, Cross River State, Nigeria: The role of higher educational institutions.- Change and analysis of extreme rainfall indices during 1960-2010 and 2011-2100 in Abidjan District (Cote D'ivoire).- Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in Higher Education Institutions: The Case Study of the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Chile.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319863517
• ISBN13: 9783319863511
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 575 Pages
• Weight: 1.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"