Climate Change Adaptation Strategies - An Upstream-downstream Perspective

Setting the scene: Adapting to climate change - a large-scale challenge with local-scale impacts (Salzmann).- Adaptation, Adaptation Science, and the Status of Adaptation in Mountain Regions (McDowell).- Science in the context of climate change adaptation - case studies from the Peruvian Andes (Orlowsky).- Managing glacier related risks disaster in the Chucchún catchment, Cordillera Blanca, Peru (Muñoz).- Climate Change Adaptation in the Carpathian Mountain Region (Werners).- Community forest management as climate change adaptation measure in Nepal's Himalaya (Rabin Raj).- Ecosystem based adaptation (EbA) of African Mountain Ecosystems - Experiences from Mount Elgon, Uganda (Mumba).- Vulnerability Assessments for Ecosystem based Adaptation: Lessons from the Nor Yauyos Cochas Landscape Reserve in Peru (Dourojeanni).- The Role of Ecosystem-based Adaptation in the Swiss Mountains (Muccione).- Community perceptions and responses to climate variability: Insights from the Himalayas (Pandit).- Drought - in search of sustainable solutions to a persistent, 'wicked' problem in South Africa (Vogel).- Making Climate Resilience a Private Sector Business: Insights from the agricultural sector in Nepal (Trabacchi).- Shaping Climate Resilient Development - Economics of Climate Adaptation (Bresch).- Building Resilience: World Bank Group Experience in Climate and Disaster Resilient Development (Kull).- The science-policy dialogue for climate change adaptation in mountain regions (Kohler).