naa a22 4500 51080618X CHVBK 20180411083419.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11625-013-0213-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11625-013-0213-9 The Gathering Storm: managing adaptation to environmental change in coastal communities and small islands [Elektronische Daten] [Daniel Lane, Colleen Mercer Clarke, Donald Forbes, Patrick Watson] Small island communities are inherently coastal communities, sharing many of the attributes and challenges faced by cities, towns and villages situated on the shores of larger islands and continents. In the context of rapidly changing climates, all coastal communities are challenged by their exposure to changing sea levels, to increasingly frequent and severe storms, and to the cumulative effects of higher storm surges. Across the globe, small island developing states, and small islands in larger states, are part of a distinctive set of stakeholders threatened, not only by climate change but also by shifting social, economic, and cultural conditions. C-Change is a collaborative International Community-University Research Alliance (ICURA) project whose goal is to assist participating coastal communities in Canada and the Caribbean region to share experiences and tools that aid adaptation to changes in their physical environment, including sea-level rise and the increasing frequency of extreme weather events associated with climate change. C-Change researchers have been working with eight partner communities to identify threats, vulnerabilities, and risks, to improve understanding of the ramifications of climate change to local conditions and local assets, and to increase capacity for planning for adaptation to their changing world. This paper reports on the knowledge gained and shared and the challenges to date in this ongoing collaboration between science and society. Springer Japan, 2013 Climate change nationallicence Adaptation nationallicence Coastal communities nationallicence Small islands nationallicence Lane Daniel Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada aut Mercer Clarke Colleen Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada aut Forbes Donald Department of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, Canada aut Watson Patrick Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago aut Sustainability Science Springer Japan 8/3(2013-07-01), 469-489 1862-4065 8:3<469 2013 8 11625 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-013-0213-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-013-0213-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lane Daniel Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mercer Clarke Colleen Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Forbes Donald Department of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Watson Patrick Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Sustainability Science Springer Japan 8/3(2013-07-01), 469-489 1862-4065 8:3<469 2013 8 11625 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer