Primer on Climate Change and Sustainable Development

Facts, Policy Analysis, and Applications

Mohan Munasinghe, Rob Swart

445 pages, parution le 30/03/2005

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Climate change and variability has become the primary environmental concern of the 21st Century. The potential impacts and mitigation of climate change need to be analyzed within the context of sustainable development. Primer on Climate Change and Sustainable Development presents a condensed and accessible review of the latest state-of-the-art assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The book begins with a foreword from the chair of the IPCC. Our current knowledge of the basic science of climate change is described, before moving on to future scenarios of development within the context of climate change. Possible adaptation and mitigation measures, including cost and benefit analysis, are discussed. The book will be an invaluable textbook for students of environmental science and policy, and researchers and policy makers involved in all aspects of climate change.

A comprehensive but accessible and concise review of findings of the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, supplemented by recent research
Explains key linkages between climate change and more urgent local development problems
Places environmental, economic and social dimensions of climate change and sustainable development in one coherent framework
Covers both scientific and social science aspects of the subject that other texts at this level do not

Sommaire

Climate change: scientific background and introduction
Future scenarios of development and climate change
Framework for making development more sustainable: concepts and analytical tools
Making development more sustainable
Adaptation to climate change: concepts, approaches and linkages with wider sustainable development issues
Vulnerability, impacts and adaptation by sectors and systems
Vulnerability, impacts and adaptation by geographic region
Mitigating climate change: concepts and linkages with sustainable development
Mitigating measures: technologies, practices, barriers and policy instruments
Assessment of mitigation costs and benefits
Climate change and sustainable development: a synthesis

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Éditeur(s)	Cambridge University Press
Auteur(s)	Mohan Munasinghe, Rob Swart
Parution	30/03/2005
Nb. de pages	445
Format	17,5 x 25
Couverture	Broché
Poids	946g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780521008884
ISBN13	978-0-521-00888-4