Primer on climate change and sustainable development :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
facts, policy analysis and applications /
First Statement of Responsibility
Mohan Munasinghe, Rob Swart.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Cambridge University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2005.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xii, 445 pages) :
Other Physical Details
illustrations
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"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 reports, in which both authors were involved, the book summarizes the latest research linking climate change and sustainable development." "This book will be compulsory reading for those policy-makers, scientists, students and engaged citizens around the world who have an interest in any aspect of climate change and sustainable development."--Jacket.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Primer on climate change and sustainable development.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Climatic changes.
Sustainable development.
Climat-- Changements.
Développement durable.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Development-- Sustainable Development.