Primer on climate change and sustainable development : facts, policy analysis and applications /

"This Primer on Climate Change and Sustainable Development gives an up-to-date, comprehensive and accessible overview of the links between climate change and sustainable development. Building on the main findings of the last series of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Munasinghe, Mohan, 1945-
Otros Autores: Swart, R. J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Temas:
Sustainable development.
Climatic changes.
Climate Change
Développement durable.
Climat > Changements.
sustainable development.
climate change.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > Sustainable Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Environmental Economics.
Umweltpolitik
Klimaänderung
Nachhaltigkeit
Duurzame ontwikkeling.
Klimaatveranderingen.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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