Climate change risks and adaptation : linking policy and economics
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
2015
EISBN 9264234616
""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Table of contents""; ""Acronyms""; ""Executive summary""; ""Chapter 1. Risks in a changing climate""; ""Key messages""; ""Adaptation through risk management""; ""The nature of a changing climate""; ""Box 1.1. Definitions for adaptation, risk and resilience""; ""Mounting costs of climate impacts""; ""Figure 1.1. Economic losses from climatological, meteorological and hydrological disasters, 1980-2014""; ""Figure 1.2. Distribution of economic loss events worldwide 2014""; ""Climate risks and uncertainties""; ""Notes""; ""References""
""Chapter 2. Approaches to managing climate risks""""Key messages""; ""National measures to address climate change risks""; ""Table 2.1. Coverage of adaptation in National Communications""; ""Political commitment to address climate change risks""; ""Box 2.1. The US President's Climate Action Plan""; ""Box 2.2. Preparing for heat waves: The French "Plan canicule"""; ""Institutions and processes to address climate change risks""; ""Box 2.3. The German institutional framework to address climate change risks""; ""Tools and evidence to inform a national response to climate change risks""
""The role of sub-national governments in addressing climate risks""""Table 2.2. Examples of local level approaches to adaptation planning""; ""Box 2.4. Copenhagen's Climate Adaptation Plan""; ""Private sector engagement in adaptation""; ""Table 2.3. Factors influencing climate change adaptation in the private sector""; ""Addressing the social aspect of adaptation""; ""The importance of measuring progress in addressing climate risks""; ""References""; ""Chapter 3. Overview of costs and benefits of adaptation at the national and regional scale""; ""Key messages""
""The costs and benefits of adaptation""""From theory to practice""; ""Current state of the literature""; ""Table 3.1. Updated quality of the coverage of the sectors in the adaptation literature""; ""Figure 3.1. National level adaptation cost studies""; ""Global estimates""; ""Box 3.1. Consequences of climate change damages for economic growth: OECD assessment""; ""National estimates""; ""OECD countries""; ""Developing countries and emerging economies""; ""Risk- and sector-based estimates""; ""Sea level rise, coastal flooding and storms""
""Box 3.2. What are low- and no-regret adaptation options?""""Flooding and water management risk""; ""River, Surface Water and Urban Flooding Risks""; ""Water supply and management risks""; ""Other risks to infrastructure""; ""Agriculture""; ""Health adaptation""; ""Biodiversity and ecosystem services""; ""Business, services and industry""; ""Discussion of the current state of evidence and key gaps""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Chapter 4. Framing risk-based approaches to adaptation planning""; ""Key messages""; ""A framework for a risk-based approach to adaptation planning""
""Figure 4.1. Four steps in a risk-based approach""
""Chapter 2. Approaches to managing climate risks""""Key messages""; ""National measures to address climate change risks""; ""Table 2.1. Coverage of adaptation in National Communications""; ""Political commitment to address climate change risks""; ""Box 2.1. The US President's Climate Action Plan""; ""Box 2.2. Preparing for heat waves: The French "Plan canicule"""; ""Institutions and processes to address climate change risks""; ""Box 2.3. The German institutional framework to address climate change risks""; ""Tools and evidence to inform a national response to climate change risks""
""The role of sub-national governments in addressing climate risks""""Table 2.2. Examples of local level approaches to adaptation planning""; ""Box 2.4. Copenhagen's Climate Adaptation Plan""; ""Private sector engagement in adaptation""; ""Table 2.3. Factors influencing climate change adaptation in the private sector""; ""Addressing the social aspect of adaptation""; ""The importance of measuring progress in addressing climate risks""; ""References""; ""Chapter 3. Overview of costs and benefits of adaptation at the national and regional scale""; ""Key messages""
""The costs and benefits of adaptation""""From theory to practice""; ""Current state of the literature""; ""Table 3.1. Updated quality of the coverage of the sectors in the adaptation literature""; ""Figure 3.1. National level adaptation cost studies""; ""Global estimates""; ""Box 3.1. Consequences of climate change damages for economic growth: OECD assessment""; ""National estimates""; ""OECD countries""; ""Developing countries and emerging economies""; ""Risk- and sector-based estimates""; ""Sea level rise, coastal flooding and storms""
""Box 3.2. What are low- and no-regret adaptation options?""""Flooding and water management risk""; ""River, Surface Water and Urban Flooding Risks""; ""Water supply and management risks""; ""Other risks to infrastructure""; ""Agriculture""; ""Health adaptation""; ""Biodiversity and ecosystem services""; ""Business, services and industry""; ""Discussion of the current state of evidence and key gaps""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Chapter 4. Framing risk-based approaches to adaptation planning""; ""Key messages""; ""A framework for a risk-based approach to adaptation planning""
""Figure 4.1. Four steps in a risk-based approach""
