Primer on climate change and sustainable development : facts, policy analysis and applications
by
Munasinghe, Mohan, 1945-
Title
:
Primer on climate change and sustainable development : facts, policy analysis and applications
Author
:
Munasinghe, Mohan, 1945-
ISBN
:
9780521008884
9780521810663
Personal Author
:
Munasinghe, Mohan, 1945-
Publication Information
:
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Physical Description
:
xii, 445 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Contents
:
1. Climate change : scientific background and introduction -- 2. Future scenarios of development and climate change -- 3. Framework for making development more sustainable (MDMS) : concepts and analytical tools -- 4. Interactions between climate and development -- 5. Adaptation to climate change : concepts, and linkages with sustainable development -- 6. Vulnerability, impacts, and adaptation by sectors and systems -- 7. Vulnerability, impacts, and adapation by geographic region -- 8. Mitigating climate change : concepts and linkages with sustainable development -- 9. Mitigation measures : technologies, practices, barriers, and policy instruments -- 10. Assessment of mitigation costs and benefits -- 11. Climate change and sustainable development : a synthesis.
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."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject Term
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Sustainable development.
Climatic changes.
Added Author
:
Swart, R. J.
Electronic Access
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| Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Copy |
|---|
| IIEMSA | General Books | 33168015767177 | 338.927 M963P 2005 | 1 |