Climate Change Adaptation In North America: Fostering Resilience And The Regional Capacity To Adapt (climate Change Management)

This edited book responds to the need for a better understanding of how climate change affects North America and for the identification of processes, methods and tools that may help countries and communities to develop a more robust adaptive capacity. It showcases successful examples of how to manage the social, economic and environmental complexities posed by climate change. The book attempts to synthesize various branches of resilience and adaptation scholarship into a cohesive text that highlights field research and best practices that are shaping policy and practice in a wide geography from the coastal conditions of the Caribbean to the thawing landscape of the Arctic Circle. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Climate Change Adaptation in North America: A Short Review of Priorities....Pages 1-5 Front Matter....Pages 7-7 Community Deliberation to Build Local Capacity for Climate Change Adaptation: The Rural Climate Dialogues Program....Pages 9-26 A Participatory Process to Design Climate Change Adaptation Measures for the Carmen-Pajonal-Machona Lagoon System in Mexico....Pages 27-49 Experimentalist Regional Governance for Climate Change Adaptation: A Canadian Case Study....Pages 51-66 The Participative Action Research Approach to Climate Change Adaptation in Atlantic Canadian Coastal Communities....Pages 67-87 Recent Harm, Problematic Impacts, and Socially Feasible Adaptation Options to Heatwaves and Heavy Rain Events in New York City....Pages 89-102 Front Matter....Pages 103-103 A Critical Discussion on the Roles of Institutions on Ports’ Adaptation to the Impacts Posed by Climate Change....Pages 105-117 Beyond Restoration: Planting Coastal Infrastructure....Pages 119-135 COREDAR for Cities: Developing a Capacity Building Tool for Sea-Level Rise Risk Communication and Urban Community-Based Adaptation....Pages 137-157 Front Matter....Pages 159-159 A Region Under Threat? Climate Change Impacts, Institutional Change and Response of Local Communities in Coastal Yucatán....Pages 161-175 Designing for Future Uncertainties: Comparative Studies of Two Adaptive Strategies in Urban Design in New York and Sweden....Pages 177-191 Designing with Risk: Balancing Global Risk and Project Risks....Pages 193-208 Coping with Higher Sea Levels and Increased Coastal Flooding in New York City....Pages 209-223 Building an Adaptation Tool for Visualizing the Coastal Impacts of Climate Change on Prince Edward Island, Canada....Pages 225-238 Front Matter....Pages 239-239 Effective Public Service Communication Networks for Climate Change Adaptation....Pages 241-259 Speaking Out or Staying Quiet on Climate Change: Broadcast Meteorologists Influenced by the Need to Be Pithy, Popular and Politically Cautious....Pages 261-277 Front Matter....Pages 279-279 Urban Planning to Prevent Mosquito-Borne Diseases in the Caribbean....Pages 281-288 Mental Health Impacts of Droughts: Lessons for the U.S. from Australia....Pages 289-304 Linking Science and Policy on Climate Change: The Case of Coquimbo Region, Chile....Pages 305-320 Selection Support Framework Fostering Resilience Based on Neighbourhood Typologies....Pages 321-335 Front Matter....Pages 337-337 A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective on the Factors Shaping North American Adaptation Research....Pages 339-354 This edited book responds to the need for a better understanding of how climate change affects North America and for the identification of processes, methods and tools which may help countries and communities to develop an adaptive capacity. It showcases successful examples of how to manage the social, economic and political complexities posed by climate change, so that lessons can be learned and best practices may be disseminated. A focus is on "fostering resilience and the regional capacity to adapt," meaning that experiences from research, field projects and best practices in climate change adaptation and resilience among countries in the region are presented which may help advance the integration of climate science into socio-economic policies in the public and private sectors