Business and Policy Solutions to Climate Change: From Mitigation to Adaptation (Hardcover)

Part 1.INTRODUCTION Chapter 1.Climate Change Adaptation: An Overview Chapter 2.Defining Net-Zero and Climate Recommendations for Carbon Offsetting Part 2.ECOLOGY AND THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT Chapter 3.Green Infrastructure Mapping for Adaptation, Biodiversity, and Health and Wellbeing: A Tool Development Case Study in Edinburgh Chapter 4.Agroecological Approaches for Climatic Change Mitigation and Adaptation: Experiences from the South to Encourage Direct Producer-Consumer Relationships Chapter 5.Sustainable Renaturation in Desertification Control: Expediting the Natural Succession of Large-Scale Vegetation in Drylands Part 3.FINANCE AND THE ECONOMY Chapter 6.Weaknesses in Corporate Commitments to Climate?Change?Adaptation and How to Fix?Them: A Systemic Scenario Assessment Approach Chapter 7.Climate Finance: A Business-Ethical Analysis Chapter 8.Risk-Rating GHG Emissions Offsets based on Climate Requirements Chapter 9.An Investigation of Climate Change within the Framework of a Schumpeterian Economic Growth Model Chapter 10.Culture, Economics, and Climate Change Adaptation Chapter 11.Investors’ Adaptation to Climate Change: A Temporal Portfolio Choice Model with Diminishing Climate Duration Hazard Part 4.CITIES AND URBAN AREAS Chapter 12.Mainstreaming Adaptation into Urban Planning: Projects and Changes in Regulatory Frameworks for Resilient Cities Chapter 13.Path-Dependency as a Potential Cause for the Disjunction between Theory and Tools in the Modelled Reality of Sustainable Architecture Part 5.GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES Chapter 14.Addressing Climate Change and Waste Management Problems through the Development of the Waste-to-Energy Value Chain for Trinidad and Tobago Chapter 15.The Role of Businesses in Climate Change Adaptation in the Arctic Chapter 16.Climate Risk on the Rise: Canada’s Approach to Limiting Future Climate Impacts Chapter 17.Unlocking Climate Finance to Compensate Caribbean Small Island Developing States for Damages and Losses from Climate Change Chapter 18.Integrating Local and Indigenous Knowledge for Climate Change Adaptation in Africa