Some key publications on adaptation of landscapes

• Adger, W.N., Arnell, N.W. & Tompkins, E.L. (2005) Successful adaptation to climate across scales. Global Environmental Change, 15, 75-76.
• Bouwer, LM, Aerts JCJH 2006 Financing climate change adaptation Disasters 30:49-63
• Da Fonseca, G.A.B., Sechrest, W. & Oglethorpe, J. (2005) Managing the matrix. Climate Change and Biodiversity (eds T.E. Lovejoy & L. Hannah), pp. 346-358. Yale University Press, New Haven.
• Gill S.E., J.F. Handley, A.R. Ennos,  S. Pauleit (2007) Adapting Cities for Climate Change: The Role of the Green Infrastructure Built Environment 33:115-133.
• Hannah L, Midgley G, Andelman S, Araujo M, Hughes G, Martinez-Meyer E, Pearson R, Williams (2007) Protected area needs in a changing climate. Frontiers in Ecology and Environment 5:131-138
• Harris JA, Hobbs, RJ, Higgs E, Aronson J (2006) Ecological restoration and global climate change. Restoration Ecology 14: 170-176. 
• Harrison PA, Berry PM, Butt N, New M (2006) Modeling climate change impacts on species distributions at the European scale: implications for conservation policy. Environmental Science & Policy 9:116-128
• Hulme, P.E., (2005) Adapting to climate change: is there scope for ecological management in the face of global threat? Journal of Applied Ecology, 42, 784-794.
• Lovejoy, T.E. (2005) Conservation with a changing climate.  Climate Change and Biodiversity (eds T.E. Lovejoy & L. Hannah) pp. 325-328. Yale University Press, New Haven.
• Millar CI, Stephenson NL, Stephens SL (2008) Climate change and forests of the future: Managing in the face of uncertainty. Ecological Applications 17: 2145-2151
• Meir P, Cox P, Grace J (2006) The influence of terrestrial ecosystems on climate. TREE 21:254-260
• Metzger MJ, Bunce RGH, Leemans R, Viner D (2008) Projected environmental shifts under climate change: European trends and regional impacts. Environmental Conservation 35:64-75
• Opdam, P. and Wascher, D. (2004). Climate change meets habitat fragmentation: linking landscape and biogeographical scale level in research and conservation. Biological Conservation 117 (3): 285-297.
• Pompe S, Hanspach J, Badeck F, Klotz S, Thuiller W, Kuhn I (2008) Climate and land use change impacts on plants distributions in Germany. Biology Letters http://journals.royalsociety.org
• Rounsevell, M.D.A., Berry, P.M. & Harrison, P.A.  (2006) Future environmental change impacts on rural land use and biodiversity: a synthesis of the ACCELERATES project. Environmental Science and Policy, 9, 93-100.
• Vos, C.C., Berry, P., Opdam, P., Baveco, H., Nijhof, B., O’Hanley, J., Bell, C., Kuipers, H. (2008) Adapting landscapes to climate change: examples of climate proof ecosystem networks and priority adaptation zones. J. Applied Ecology 45:1722-173.
  
  

Books:

Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts, Peter Droogers (eds) 2005 Climate Change in Contrasting River Basins: Adaptation Strategies for Water, Food and Environment. CABI Publishing
 
Dealing with climate change is generally considered to be one of the greatest challenges for the coming decades. Changes in precipitation are likely to have a major impact on the hydrological cycle and subsequently on the environment and food production. However, until now, clear guidance on how to respond to this challenge, particularly at the river basin level, has been lacking.
This book has been developed from the ADAPT project, focusing on the development of regional adaptation strategies for water, food, and the environment in river basins across the world. A generic methodology is presented and applied to seven case studies in contrasting geographical areas of the world: Mekong (SE Asia), Rhine (Western Europe), Sacramento (USA), Syr Darya (Central Asia), Volta (Ghana), Walawe (Sri Lanka) and Zayandeh (Iran). The book provides a unique contribution and will interest researchers in climatology, geography, ecology, crop and soil science, environmental studies, and related disciplines.

Ian Mansergh, Alex Lau  and Rod Anderson (2008) Geographic Landscape Visualisation in Planning Adaptation to Climate Change in Victoria, Australia. In  Christopher Pettit, William Cartwright, Ian Bishop, Kim Lowell, David Pullar and David Duncan (eds) Landscape Analysis and Visualisation - Spatial Models for Natural Resource Management and Planning. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Pp 469-487 Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Climate change is a global challenge for all scientists the 21st century with a certain amount of ‘global warming’ already inevitable. The magnitude and risks of climate change are now being more widely appreciated and the need for adaptation, including land use, is becoming a social imperative. Profound changes to ecosystems and biodiversity are predicted, and climate induced migration of biota is envisaged and is already being observed. Although the exact changes remain uncertain, landscapes and biota will be affected at all scales — from the local to sub-continental level. Space for biodiversity to ‘self-adapt’ is required. Maintaining and restoring ecological connectivity and resilience — biolinks — across landscapes are likely to be crucial aspects of adaptation to climate change. This is particularly so across human modified landscapes (e.g. agricultural landscapes) where the environmental legacy of habitat fragmentation and degradation is already a major global conservation issue. Past and current spatial patterns of human land use and management will also be affected by biophysical drivers and human adaptation.
What will be the function, patterns and processes of future landscapes that we bequeath to future generations under climate change? What they look like will be product of societal choices informed by the community’s ‘sense of place’, that now includes biodiversity conservation. Visualization tools, particularly when accurately linked to Geographic Information Systems, ecological perspectives and realistic photographic libraries, offer powerful facilities to assist the community, scientists, planners and all major stakeholders to plan for new landscapes that consider climate change, including biolinks. These digitally created landscapes that display physical properties of the real world can provide a useful medium for visualizing the results from experimenting with outcomes of different management approaches building in biodiversity conservation. ‘Seeing’ can augment meaning and ‘sense of future place’, particularly when linked to a realism derived from ecology. This chapter examines the use and potential of various visualisation tools as part of the emerging debate about biodiversity and adaptation to climate change in south-eastern Australia.


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