Status of Climate Change Adaptation in Asia and the Pacific
About this ebook
While significant economic advances have been made, the pace of growth has been slow to impact the lives of a majority of the people who live below the poverty line. The chapters highlight adaptation actions for protecting people and their livelihoods in priority sectors, maintaining food and water security, supporting socio-economic stability including poverty reduction, and climate risk management. This book also maximizes readers' insights into the knowledge gaps and limitations of stated adaptation goals, and the bottlenecks that hinder implementation in different regions.
About the author
Mozaharul Alam is the Regional Coordinator of Climate Change Programme of UN Environment Asia and the Pacific Office. He has obtained M. Sc. degree in Geography from Jahangirnagar University in Bangladesh. He has received an international fellowship award on climate change by International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), London, UK. He has served the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of Bangladesh as National Project Coordinator for formulating National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA). He has also worked as one of the Lead Authors for Working Group II for IPCC Fifth Assessment Report.
Jeongho Lee is a Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Cooperation at Korea Environment Institute (KEI). He had received his PhD degree from the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University in Korea. He started his environmental research careers at KEI, and he had served Korea Adaptation Center for Climate Change as Director and Head. He has several years of experience working on climate change impacts and vulnerability assessment and national climate change adaptation strategies in Korea.
Puja Sawhney is the former Regional Coordinator of the Asia Pacific Adaptation Network (APAN). She has received her PhD in Geography from the University of Bonn, Germany. She holds a Master’s in Environment and Development from The University of London and a Master’s in Geography from the University of Delhi. She has done extensive work on Climate Changes Issues for more than almost two decades in the Asia- Pacific region.
