Climate Change Strategies: Handling the Challenges of Adapting to a Changing Climate

Preface.- Part 1- Assessing Climate Change Impacts.- Chapter 1- Impact of Climate Change and its Adaptation in the Semi-Arid Environment of Flood-Prone Dechatu Catchment, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia.- Chapter 2- Online consumption impact: Sustainable practices of young adults facing climate change.- Chapter 3- Rerouting food waste for climate change adaptation: the paths of research.- Chapter 4- Modeling climate resilient economic development.- Chapter 5- Local context of Climate Change Adaptation in the South-Western Coastal Regions of Bangladesh.- Chapter 6- Vulnerability Assessment on Agriculture in East Nusa Tenggara.- Chapter 7- National Integrated Coastal Zone Management Frameworks Need to Adapt.- Chapter 8- The Influence of Climate Factors in the Distribution of Birds.- Chapter 9- Effect of extreme climatic events on plant-pollinator interactions in blueberry.- Chapter 10- Understanding the Politics of Climate Change in Zimbabwe.- Chapter 11- Geospatial surveillance of Vicissitudes observed in the Land Surface Temperature of the Federal Capital of Pakistan over three decades.- Chapter 12- Mapping multi-decadal mangrove forest change in the Philippines: Vegetation extent and impacts of anthropogenic and climate-related factors.- Chapter 13- Anthropogenic Climate Change in the Mangrove-Dominated Indian Sundarbans: Spatio-Temporal Analyses, Future Trends, and Recommendations for Mitigation and Adaptation.- Part 2- Implementing mitigation and adaptation measures.- Chapter 14- Carbon Trading and Sustainable Development Goal 13: The Malaysia Perspectives.- Chapter 15- Composite Water Resources Management: A Decentralized Approach for Climate Change Adaptation.- Chapter 16- Innovative Ways to Mobilise Private Sector Capital in Climate Change Adaptation Investments in Developing Countries - Mechanisms and Forward-looking Vision from Practitioners' Standpoint.- Chapter 17- Lessons in Adaptation and Innovation of Selected Local COVID-19 Responses in the Philippines.- Chapter

Professor Dr. Walter Leal Filho holds the Chair of Environment and Technology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, and is Head of the Research and Transfer Centre "Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management" at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany. He has over 400 publications authored/edited books, book chapters and papers published in refereed journals.He is Lead Author at AR6´s Working Group II (Climate Change Adaptation) at the IPCC, Founding Editor of the International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management and heads the International Climate Change Information and Research Programme. He serves on the editorial board of various journals.