Overview
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
- Explores climate change impacts, adaptation, and mitigation in Central Asia
- Discusses climate policy options for the Central Asian governments
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Climate Studies (BRIEFSCLIMATE)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Climate Research on Central Asia: State of the Art
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Central Asian Decarbonisation Pathways and Carbon Pricing
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Local Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation in Central Asia
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Climate Change Awareness, Norms and Stakeholders in Central Asia
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Keywords
- Climate change in Central Asia
- Climate change knowledge
- Decarbonization
- Climate policy in Central Asia
- Energy policy
- Environmental policy
- Climate Change Research
- Carbon Pricing
- Energy Transition
- Geoeconomics of Energy Transition
- Eco-Activism and Entrepreneurship
- Energy security
- Energy economics
- Open Access
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Rahat Sabyrbekov is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Academy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. He obtained a PhD in economics from Norwegian University of Life Sciences and has been working on topics related to environment, energy, and natural resources. Rahat has contributed to the global and local research projects lead by Intergovernmental Platform for Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity Assessment (IPBES), United Nations Development Program, World Bank, International Finance Corporation and national government bodies of the Kyrgyz Republic. Rahat also served as a visiting fellow at Duke University.
Indra Overland is Research Professor and Head of the Research Group on Climate and Energy at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). He previously headed the Russia and Eurasia Research Group at NUPI and has worked on Central Asia since 2001. He completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge in the year 2000, followed by a three-year post-doctoral project on Central Asia. He has been responsible for cooperation between the OSCE Academy in Bishkek and NUPI since 2007.Roman Vakulchuk is a senior research fellow and Head of the the Energy Programme at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). He holds a PhD degree in economics obtained from Jacobs University Bremen, Germany. His main geographical specialization is countries of Central Asia and Southeast Asia. He publishes on economic transition, climate change, renewable energy, trade, infrastructure, and investment policy. Vakulchuk has work experience as a project leader within research projects organized by among others the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the European Climate Foundation (ECF), the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), OECD, the MFA of Norway and the Research Council of Norway. Roman also worked at the oil company Shell in Germany.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Climate Change in Central Asia
Book Subtitle: Decarbonization, Energy Transition and Climate Policy
Editors: Rahat Sabyrbekov, Indra Overland, Roman Vakulchuk
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Climate Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29831-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-29830-1Published: 15 April 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-29831-8Published: 13 April 2023
Series ISSN: 2213-784X
Series E-ISSN: 2213-7858
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 170
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
Topics: Natural Resource and Energy Economics, Climate, general, Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Public Policy