Climate Change in Asia and the Pacific

Foreword - Masahiro Kawai Introduction - Worapot Manupipatpong and Venkatachalam Anbumozhi Part One: Cllimate Change Challenges, Scenatios, risks, and Planning tools Review of the Economics of Climate Change on Southeast Asia - Tae Yong Jung Agricultural Impact of Climate Change: A General Equilibrium Analysis with Special Reference to Southeast Asia - Fan Zhai and Juzhong Zhuang Monitoring the Vulnerability and Need for Adaptation Planning for Food Security - Vangimalla R Reddy, David H Fleisher, Dennis J Timlin, Venkatachalam Anbumozhi, K Raja Reddy, and Yang Yang Adapting to Climate Change-Opportunities and Challenges for Asia and the Pacific - Venkatachalam Anbumozhi Part Two: Evolving Adaptation Measures in the Region Valuing Natural Resource Management: Climate Change Adaptation in the European Union - Meinhard Breiling Monitoring the Vulnerability and Adaptation Planning for Water Security - Zhijun Chen Water Management Practices and Climate Change Adaptation: South Asian Experiences - Selvarajah Pathmarajah Adaptation Measures for Climate Change in Japan - Toshio Okazumi and Eiji Otsuki Climate Change Impacts on the Mekong River Delta - Shigeko Haruyama Integrated Approach to Climate Change Impact Assessment on Agricultural Production Systems - Tsugihiro Watanabe Adaptation in Urban Settings: Asian Experiences - Jostacio M Lapitan Part Three: Successful Programs and Measures of Adaptation in Vulnerarle Areas Flood Disasters and Warning Systems in Northern Thailand - Thada Sukhapunnaphan and Taikan Oki Integrated Flood Analysis System: An Efficient Tool to Implement Flood Forecasting and Warning Systems - Kazuhiko Fukami, Tomonobu Sugiura, Seishi Nabesaka, Go Ozawa, Jun Magome, and Takahiro Kawakami Effectiveness of Early Warning Systems and Monitoring Tools in the Mekong Basin - Guillaume Lacombe, Chu Thai Hoanh, and Thierry Valéro Insurance Solutions to Climate Change in Asia and the Pacific - Yuri Murayama, Harumi Yashiro, and Hideki

This book provides a rigorous and up-to-date analysis of the climate change risks and impacts for the Asian region. It also presents some of the successful adaptation case-studies in the region and provides a stepwise guidance on ways to integrating adaptation programmes into the mainstream policy and planning process…The editors of this book have so skillfully weaved the contributions of different author-teams that it retains its flow from the very beginning to the end and is able to engage not only specialists and fellow professionals, but a general audience as well.