Limits to Climate Change Adaptation

1. Introduction: Limits to Adaptation
Johanna Nalau, Walter Leal Filho

Part I. Limits to Climate Change Adaptation in Asia

2. Strategies and Barriers to Adaptation of Hazard-Prone Rural Households in Bangladesh
G. M. Monirul Alam, Khorshed Alam, Shahbaz Mushtaq, Most Nilufa Khatun, Walter Leal Filho

3. Governance Limits to Adaptation in Cambodia’s Health Sector
Daniel Gilfillan

4. Land-Based Strategic Model by Integrating Diverse Policies for Climate Change Adaptation in Nepal
Adish Khezri, Arbind Man Tuladhar, Jaap Zevenbergen

5. Climate Change and Migration in Bangladesh: Empirically Derived Lessons and Opportunities for Policy Makers and Practitioners
Johannes Luetz

Part II. Limits to Climate Change Adaptation in Africa

6. Limits to Climate Change Adaptation in Zimbabwe: Insights, Experiences and Lessons
Nelson Chanza

7. Pastoralists Shifting Strategies and Perceptions of Risk: Post-crisis Recovery in Damergou, Niger
Karen Marie Greenough

8. Political Limits to Climate Change Adaptation Practices: Insights from the Johannesburg Case
Karen Hetz

9. Constraints and Limits to Climate Change Adaptation Efforts in Nigeria
Idowu O. Ologeh, Joshua B. Akarakiri, Francis A. Adesina

10. Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: Suitability of Banana Crop Production to Future Climate Change Over Uganda
Geoffrey Sabiiti, Joseph Mwalichi Ininda, Laban Ayieko Ogallo, Jully Ouma, Guleid Artan, Charles Basalirwa, Franklin Opijah, Alex Nimusiima, Saul Daniel Ddumba, Jasper Batureine Mwesigwa, George Otieno, Jamiat Nanteza

11. Local Adaptation to Climate Extremes in Domboshawa: Opportunities and Limitations
Vincent Itai Tanyanyiwa, Rejoice Madobi

Part III. Limits to Climate Change Adaptation in Australia, North-America and Europe

12. The Limits of Imagination
Liese Coulter

13. Climate Change Adaptation in Coastal East Arctic Ecosystems: Complexity and Challenges of Monitoring and Evaluation
Moktar Lamari, Line Poulin-Larivière, Johann L. Jacob

14. Limits to Adaptation on Climate Change in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Insights and Experiences
Goran Trbic, Davorin Bajic, Vladimir Djurdjevic, Vladan Ducic, Raduska Cupac, Đorđe Markez, Goran Vukmir, Radoslav Dekić, Tatjana Popov

Part IV. Limits to Climate Change Adaptation in the Pacific Region

15. Climate Change Adaptation Limits in Small Island Developing States
Stacy-ann Robinson

16. Limits to Coastal Adaptation in Samoa: Insights and Experiences
Richard Crichton, Miguel Esteban

17. Limits to Capital Works Adaptation in the Coastal Zones and Islands: Lessons for the Pacific
Brendan Mackey, Daniel Ware

18. A ‘Cost Barrier’ Perspective to Adaptation on a Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI) and Mangrove Rehabilitation Projects (MRP) in Solomon Islands
Michael Otoara Ha’apio, Walter Leal Filho, Morgan Wairiu

19. Customary Land and Climate Change Induced Relocation: A Case Study of Vunidogoloa Village, Vanua Levu, Fiji
Dhrishna Charan, Manpreet Kaur, Priyatma Singh

20. Limits to Adapting to Climate Change Through Relocations in Papua-New Guinea and Fiji
Dalila Gharbaoui, Julia Blocher

21. Atoll Habitability Thresholds
Mark H. N. Stege

22. Conclusions: Overcoming the Limits to Adaptation
Walter Leal Filho, Johanna Nalau

Keywords: Environment, Climate Change, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Natural Resource and Energy Economics, Development and Sustainability