Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies for Climate Change

1. Front Matter

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2. Impacts of Climate Change

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Evaluating the Cost of Flood Damage Based on Changes in Extreme Rainfall in Japan

      • So Kazama, Ayumu Sato, Seiki Kawagoe

      Pages 3-17

   3. Impact of Global Warming on Agricultural Product Markets: Stochastic World Food Model Analysis

      • Jun Furuya, Shintaro Kobayashi

      Pages 19-35

   4. Impacts of Climate Change on Lakes and Reservoirs Dynamics and Restoration Policies

      • G. B. Sahoo, S. G. Schladow

      Pages 37-55

   5. Study of Fishery Ground Around Indonesia Archipelago Using Remote Sensing Data

      • Takahiro Osawa, Sigit Julimantoro

      Pages 57-69

   6. Global Warming and Trans-Boundary Movement of Waterborne Microbial Pathogens

      • Nicholas J. Ashbolt

      Pages 71-82

3. Mitigation and Adaptation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 84-84

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   2. Designing Post-Kyoto Institutions: From the Reduction Rate to the Emissions Amount

      • Tatsuyoshi Saijo, Hiroshi Hamasaki

      Pages 85-96

   3. Mitigation Prospects and Challenges for India in Responding to Climate Change

      • Ritu Mathur, Suruchi Bhadwal

      Pages 97-113

   4. Challenges to Substantial and Sustained Reductions in Greenhouse Gases: Opportunities for the United States from the Bottom-Up

      • Stephen R. Connors

      Pages 115-130

   5. Scope and Roles of Adaptation to Climate Change

      • Nobuo Mimura

      Pages 131-140

   6. Adaptation of Fishing Communities in the Philippines to Climate Change

      • Maria Rebecca Campos

      Pages 141-153

4. Communication with Society About Climate Change

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 156-156

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   2. Economy and Environment: How to Get What We Want

      • Carl B. Becker

      Pages 157-166Open Access

   3. A Mapping of Global Warming Research Based on IPCC AR4

      • Ai Hiramatsu, Nobuo Mimura, Akimasa Sumi

      Pages 167-186

   4. Science and Climate Change Policy Making: A Comparative Network Perspective

      • Jeffrey Broadbent

      Pages 187-214

   5. Environmental Communication Aimed at Household Energy Conservation

      • Chizuru Nishio

      Pages 215-231

   6. Bridging the Gulf Between Science and Society: Imperatives for Minimizing Societal Disruption from Climate Change in the Pacific

      • Patrick D. Nunn

      Pages 233-248

   7. Science, Culture, Education, and Social–Ecological Systems: A Study of Transdisciplinary Literacies in Student Discourse During a Place-Based and Culture-Based Polynesian Voyaging Program

      • Pauline W. U. Chinn

      Pages 249-265

In recent decades there has been a growing awareness of how intricate the interactions are between human beings and the environment. Fortunately, progress has been made in understanding this relationship, and new technologies have been effective in addressing environmental problems. However belatedly, there has been an acknowledgment of the incompatibility of the world's finite resources with humankind's increasingly greater needs for them, and of how such a challenge demands broadened collaboration among engineers, social scientists, politicians and financial powers. Global agreement that the essential issues of the twenty-first century cannot be solved by any one discipline has led to the concept of sustainability. The transdisciplinary contributions selected for inclusion in this book address these concerns with an overview of the diverse fields of study related to sustainability. This collection of work is intended to pave the way for further collaboration among scientists and nations as well.

Chapter “Economy and Environment: How to Get What We Want” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

• Global change
• Global warming
• Greenhouse gas
• Rain
• adaptation
• adaptation to climate change
• climate change
• sustainability
• Climate change management

• Transdisciplinary Initiative for Global Sustainability, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan

  Akimasa Sumi, Kensuke Fukushi, Ai Hiramatsu

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