Adaptation and mitigation strategies for climate change / edited by Akimasa Sumi, Kensuke Fukushi, Ai Hiramatsu

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Impacts of Climate Change.- Evaluating the Cost of Flood Damage Based on Changes in Extreme Rainfall in Japan.- Impact of Global Warming on Agricultural Product Markets: Stochastic World Food Model Analysis.- Impacts of Climate Change on Lakes and Reservoirs Dynamics and Restoration Policies.- Study of Fishery Ground Around Indonesia Archipelago Using Remote Sensing Data.- Global Warming and Trans-Boundary Movement of Waterborne Microbial Pathogens.- Mitigation and Adaptation.- Designing Post-Kyoto Institutions: From the Reduction Rate to the Emissions Amount.- Mitigation Prospects and Challenges for India in Responding to Climate Change.- Challenges to Substantial and Sustained Reductions in Greenhouse Gases: Opportunities for the United States from the Bottom-Up.- Scope and Roles of Adaptation to Climate Change.- Adaptation of Fishing Communities in the Philippines to Climate Change.- Communication with Society About Climate Change.- Economy and Environment: How to Get What We Want.- A Mapping of Global Warming Research Based on IPCC AR4.- Science and Climate Change Policy Making: A Comparative Network Perspective.- Environmental Communication Aimed at Household Energy Conservation.- Bridging the Gulf Between Science and Society: Imperatives for Minimizing Societal Disruption from Climate Change in the Pacific.- Science, Culture, Education, and Social-Ecological Systems: A Study of Transdisciplinary Literacies in Student Discourse During a Place-Based and Culture-Based Polynesian Voyaging Program.- Resource and Technology Governance for Sustainability.- Adaptive Governance: Proposals for Climate Change Science, Policy and Decision Making.- Environmental Technology Policy in the US, from the 1970s into the Twenty-First Century.- The Development and Diffusion Processes of Sustainable Technologies and Implications for Public Policy: A Case Study in Japan.- Democratic Turn of Resource Governance in Japan: Prewar and Postwar Efforts for Integration in Resource Policy.- Considering the "Social Adaptation" of an Infrastructure and the Consequence of Its Impact on Sustainability.