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Author:   Vositha Wijenayake ,  Linda Anne Stevenson ,  Akio Takemoto ,  Amit Ranjan
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Imprint:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Edition:   2024 ed.
ISBN:  

9789819980543

ISBN 10:   9819980542
Pages:   310
Publication Date:   30 May 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Flood-induced losses and damages to agricultural production and farmers’ mental wellbeing in Sri Lanka.- Chapter 3: A people-centred approach to assess and address impacts of climate change-induced loss and damage .- Chapter 4: Pillars of resilience: Assessing loss and damage at the local level.- Chapter 5: A conceptual framework and research design for assessing losses and damages from climate change in vulnerable communitiesChapter 6: Towards effective loss and damage systems in disaster recovery contexts in Southeast Asia.- Chapter 7: Identification of non-economic loss and damage (NELD) indicators and practices in the context of climatic events.- Chapter 8: Climate change-induced migration in South Asia.- Chapter 9: Priorities for addressing Slow-Onset Events (SOEs) in selected ASEAN countries.- Chapter 10: SWOC analysis on the proposed linkage between Climate Change Adaptation (CCA), Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), and Loss and Damage (L&D): Case Studies in the low-lying coastal cities of Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.- Chapter 11: Linkages between disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in the context of increasing climate change-induced loss and damage in Vietnam.- Chapter 12: Policy gaps and needs analysis for the implementation of NDCs on adaptation and loss and damage in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka .- Chapter 13: Forward-thinking perspectives towards integrating climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction for synergetic resilience-building and addressing loss and damage.

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Vositha Wijenayake leads the work of SLYCAN Trust and is an attorney-at-law specializing in environmental and public international law. She has over a decade of experience in climate change and the UNFCCC process with a focus on adaptation,  resilience building, loss and damage,  gender, technology transfer,  finance,  and just transition.   Dr. Linda Anne Stevenson leads Knowledge Management and Scientific Affairs at APN. With 20+ years of experience, she oversees 60+ diverse global change projects, fostering capacity, facilitating science-policy-practitioner dialogues, and engaging with UNFCCC, IPCC and IPBES. Dr. Stevenson was an expert reviewer for IPCC's Working Group II 6th Assessment Report. Dr. Akio Takemoto is Head of Programme and Administration at United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability, Tokyo. He served in a Director position at the Ministry of the Environment of Japan, Senior Environment Specialist at Global Environment Facility, and Director of Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research.   Dr. Amit Ranjan is a Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. His latest book is  Federalism and Inter-State River Water Disputes in India (2024,  Routledge: London and New York).   Dennis Mombauer is Director: Research & Knowledge Management at SLYCAN Trust. He has over a decade of expertise in research and management across private and development sectors. His research focuses on climate change, adaptation, loss and damage, climate finance, just transition, sustainable development, human mobility, ecosystem conservation, and related topics.   Dr. Nafesa Ismail is Senior Programme Officer at APN, managing national and regional projects in the Asia-Pacific region. She oversees knowledge generated from APN activities, including APN’s flagship Science Bulletin. Dr Ismail empowers early-career professionals in international research through proposal development training workshops and has engaged as expert reviewer in IPCC and IPBES assessments.

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