Primer on Climate Change and Sustainable Development: Facts, Policy Analysis, and ApplicationsCambridge University Press, 3 mars 2005 - 445 pages Climate change and variability has become the primary environmental concern of the 21st Century. The potential impacts and mitigation of climate change need to be analyzed within the context of sustainable development. Primer on Climate Change and Sustainable Development presents a condensed and accessible review of the latest state-of-the-art assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The book begins with a foreword from the chair of the IPCC. Our current knowledge of the basic science of climate change is described, before moving on to future scenarios of development within the context of climate change. Possible adaptation and mitigation measures, including cost and benefit analysis, are discussed. |
Table des matières
technologies practices barriers and policy | 9 |
Future scenarios of development and climate change | 56 |
Interactions between climate and development | 143 |
concepts and linkages with | 172 |
Vulnerability impacts and adaptation by sectors and systems | 207 |
Vulnerability impacts and adapation by geographic region | 231 |
concepts and linkages with sustainable | 269 |
instruments | 304 |
Assessment of mitigation costs and benefits | 381 |
a synthesis | 426 |
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adapt to climate adaptation options adaptive capacity agriculture ancillary benefits approach areas Assessment Report atmosphere biodiversity Cambridge University Press carbon dioxide cent climate change impacts climate change response climate variability coastal cost-benefit analysis costs and benefits crop damage decision-making decrease developing countries Dokken ecological economic ecosystems effects emissions reduction Emissions Scenarios emissions trading enhance Environment equity example Figure forest fossil fuel framework future gases Global Scenario Group greenhouse gas emissions growth Gt carbon human impacts of climate implementation important improved income increase industry infrastructure institutional Intergovernmental Panel IPCC issues Kyoto Protocol land measures methane models Munasinghe natural nitrous oxide Panel on Climate population potential ppmv production radiative forcing reduce regions Research resilience risk Scenario Group sea-level rise sector socioeconomic Source SRES scenarios stabilization strategies sustainable development sustainomics Swart targets technologies temperature tion UNFCCC water resources
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Sustainable Energy in Developing Countries: Policy Analysis and Case Studies Peter Meier,Mohan Munasinghe Aucun aperçu disponible - 2005 |