Social dimensions of climate change equity and vulnerability in a warming world Robin Mearns and Andrew Norton, editors

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: ENG Series: New frontiers of social policyPublication details: Washington, USA World Bank 2010Description: 319 p. ill. 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780821378878
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 304.2
Contents:
Vulnerability does not fall from the sky : toward multiscale, pro-poor climate policy / Jesse Ribot -- Implications of climate change for armed conflict / Halvard Buhaug, Nils Petter Gleditsch & Ole Magnus Theisen -- Climate change and migration: emerging patterns in the developing world / Clionadh Raleigh & Lisa Jordan -- The gender dimensions of poverty and climate change adaptation / Justina Demetriades & Emily Esplen -- The role of indigenous knowledge in crafting adaptation and mitigation strategies to climate change in Latin America / Jakob Kronik & Dorte Verner -- Local institutions and adaptation to climate change / Arun Agrawal -- Climate change for agrarian societies in drylands : implications and future pathways / Simon Anderson, John Morton & Camilla Toulmin -- Towards pro-poor adaptation to climate change in the urban centers of low- and middle-income countries / Caroline Moser & David Satterthwaite -- Social policies for adaptation to climate change / Rasmus Heltberg, Steen Lau Jorgensen & Paul Bennett Siegel -- Seeing people through the trees and the carbon : mitigating and adapting to climate change without undermining rights and livelihoods / Andy White, Jeffrey Hatcher, Arvind Khare, Megan Liddle, Augusta Molnar & William D. Sunderlin.
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MAIN LIBRARY Noumea 304.2 SOC 2010 Available 42730

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Vulnerability does not fall from the sky : toward multiscale, pro-poor climate policy / Jesse Ribot -- Implications of climate change for armed conflict / Halvard Buhaug, Nils Petter Gleditsch & Ole Magnus Theisen -- Climate change and migration: emerging patterns in the developing world / Clionadh Raleigh & Lisa Jordan -- The gender dimensions of poverty and climate change adaptation / Justina Demetriades & Emily Esplen -- The role of indigenous knowledge in crafting adaptation and mitigation strategies to climate change in Latin America / Jakob Kronik & Dorte Verner -- Local institutions and adaptation to climate change / Arun Agrawal -- Climate change for agrarian societies in drylands : implications and future pathways / Simon Anderson, John Morton & Camilla Toulmin -- Towards pro-poor adaptation to climate change in the urban centers of low- and middle-income countries / Caroline Moser & David Satterthwaite -- Social policies for adaptation to climate change / Rasmus Heltberg, Steen Lau Jorgensen & Paul Bennett Siegel -- Seeing people through the trees and the carbon : mitigating and adapting to climate change without undermining rights and livelihoods / Andy White, Jeffrey Hatcher, Arvind Khare, Megan Liddle, Augusta Molnar & William D. Sunderlin.