Adaptation and the Paris Agreement -- Chaos and climate emergency -- Systems, climate and ecology -- Making systems stronger -- Community forest user groups in Nepal -- Community land titling in Bolivia -- Coastal zone and community planning in Zanzibar -- Liveable and sustainable cities -- Changing ideas of adaptation -- Learning from the adaptation communications -- Adaptation in specific geographies -- Designing and evaluating adaptation investments -- Adaptive thinking, feeling and acting.
Summary:
"Surviving climate chaos requires communities and ecosystems strong enough to cope with the near-random local impacts of climate change. Their strength depends upon resilience, resistance and flexibility, three consequences of system integrity. Preserving and restoring the integrity of communities and ecosystems is needed everywhere, and quickly since active Arctic, equatorial and oceanic tipping points threaten total climate breakdown. This might be postponed by extreme efforts to conserve carbon-dense ecosystems, decarbonise economic systems and recapture greenhouse gases, but climate chaos everywhere is now inevitable. Adaptation efforts by 158 Paris Agreement parties reported since 2015 are converging on community-based and ecosystem-based strategies. Case studies in Bolivia, Nepal and Tanzania confirm that these are the correct strategies for surviving climate chaos, where success depends upon local empowerment through forums, ecosystem tenure security and environmental education. This approach, when replicated, networked and shielded by governments, offers the best way to strengthen societies against climate chaos while achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Its usefulness is highlighted for national and local government officials and aid professionals with key roles in promoting adaptation, for students, researchers and teachers, and for all people who live under threat of climate chaos"-- Provided by publisher.
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