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Provides a state-of-the-art overview of research on climate impacts, adaptation, and mitigation Outlines a policy framework for linking climate change, global justice, and sustainable development Timely background and input to the RIO+20 summit and climate negotiations at COP18 in Qatar Covers interdisciplinary research results from climate science, development economics, ethics, hydrology, and agriculture
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Table of contents (32 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Climate Impacts and Vulnerability
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Climate impacts and vulnerability
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Human Rights, Justice and Development
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Climate Change Mitigation Options: Challenges and Costs
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Climate change mitigation options: challenges and costs
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Climate Change Adaptation Options: Challenges and Costs
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Climate change adaptation options: challenges and costs
About this book
Rich nations are mainly responsible for global greenhouse gas emissions, and they are financially and institutionally better placed to adapt to the impacts of global climate change. Developing countries, though, must face issues such as severe droughts, floods, and other environmental changes associated with the Earth’s warming, with far fewer resources to adapt at their disposal. This volume examines the way climate change is affecting the lives and environments of the poor. It provides a global picture of these impacts as well as finer detail on specific regions. The result of a major research project co-funded by various scientific and development organisations, it combines scientific results about the causes, consequences, and economics of climate change with ethical implications for development policy and sustainability.
Analysing and synthesising vast data sets from a multitude of disciplines including climate science, economics, hydrology and agricultural research, it seeks new methods of combining climate change mitigation, adaptation, development, and poverty reduction in ways that are effective, efficient and equitable. A guiding principle of the project is that new alliances of state and non-state sector partners are urgently required to establish cooperative responses to the threats posed by climate change. This volume offers a vital policy framework for linking our response to this change with progressive principles of global justice and sustainable development.
Keywords
- Climate change
- Climate policy
- Development policy
- Global justice
- Sustainable development
- Climate change management
Editors and Affiliations
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Climate Impact Research (PIK), Sustainable Solutions, Potsdam Institute for, Potsdam, Germany
Ottmar Edenhofer, Brigitte Knopf
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Studies, Munich School of Philosophy, Institute for Social & Development, München, Germany
Johannes Wallacher
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Climate Impact Research (PIK), Climate Impacts and Vulnerabilities, Potsdam Institute for, Potsdam, Germany
Hermann Lotze-Campen
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Munich School of Philosophy, Institute for Social and Development Stu, München, Germany
Michael Reder, Johannes Müller
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Climate Change, Justice and Sustainability
Book Subtitle: Linking Climate and Development Policy
Editors: Ottmar Edenhofer, Johannes Wallacher, Hermann Lotze-Campen, Michael Reder, Brigitte Knopf, Johannes Müller
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4540-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-4539-1
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9902-8
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-4540-7
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 382
Topics: Earth System Sciences, Climate Sciences, Philosophy, Environmental Sciences, Business and Management