For Whom The Bell Tolls Climate Change And Inequality

Author : Mr. Serhan Cevik,João Tovar Jalles
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9798400208126

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For Whom the Bell Tolls: Climate Change and Inequality by Mr. Serhan Cevik,João Tovar Jalles Pdf

Climate change is the defining challenge of our time with complex and evolving dynamics. The effects of climate change on economic output and financial stability have received considerable attention, but there has been much less focus on the relationship between climate change and income inequality. In this paper, we provide new evidence on the association between climate change and income inequality, using a large panel of 158 countries during the period 1955–2019. We find that an increase in climate change vulnerability is positively associated with rising income inequality. More interestingly, splitting the sample into country groups reveals a considerable contrast in the impact of climate change on income inequality. While climate change vulnerability has no statistically significant effect on income distribution in advanced economies, the coefficient on climate change vulnerability is seven times greater and statistically highly significant in the case of developing countries due largely to weaker capacity for climate change adaptation and mitigation.

Author : Obert Bernard Mlambo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1161 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031407543

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The Palgrave Handbook of Violence in Africa by Obert Bernard Mlambo Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004693722

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Constitutionalism and Transnational Governance Failures by Anonim Pdf

This book explores strategies for limiting transnational market failures, governance failures and constitutional failures impeding protection of the universally agreed sustainable development goals like climate change mitigation and access to justice and transnational rule-of-law. Can multilevel democratic and judicial protection of fundamental rights and public goods across frontiers be extended through plurilateral agreements? Can transnational economic and environmental constitutionalism be reconciled with ‘constitutional pluralism’ and with democratic constitutionalism depending on individual and democratic consent of free and equal citizens? Will judicial challenges (e.g. of EU carbon border adjustment measures) and countermeasures lead to further disruption of UN and WTO law? "This innovative book provides convincing analyses by leading practitioners and academics of multilevel governance of transnational public goods. It advocates the need for stronger involvement of civil society and democratic institutions. It shows why constitutionalism and constitutional economics offer appropriate methodologies for limiting market failures, government failures and constitutional failures. It thereby offers a glimpse of much needed optimism." Karl-Ernst Brauner, former Deputy Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO)

Author : Nasrin Aghamohammadi,Mattheos Santamouris
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780443135033

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Mitigation and Adaptation of Urban Overheating by Nasrin Aghamohammadi,Mattheos Santamouris Pdf

Provides a fully organized, comprehensive, and holistic analysis of the impact of urban overheating, mitigation, and adaptation on energy, health, environmental quality, survivability, quality of life, and economy Mitigation and Adaptation of Urban Overheating aims to analyze and present all existing relative studies to investigate the global magnitude and characteristics of the ambient temperature drop and the reduction of the heat burden resulting from modified climate conditions due to the implementation of urban mitigation and adaptation technologies and policies. This book will discuss urban overheating, urban heat mitigation, governance, anthropogenic heat emissions, adaptation and adaptation technologies, and their impacts on urban environmental quality, urban health, energy supply and demand, low-income and aged populations, and the economy of cities. This book incorporates recent developments on urban climatology, urban overheating, mitigation, and adaptation technologies. Provides quantitative and qualitative information to overcome and bridge the existing gap of knowledge regarding the impact of urban overheating, mitigation, and adaptation Includes the latest developments on the evaluation of urban climatic change on energy, health, environment, society, and economy Explains the impact of urban climatic change, mitigation technologies, and adaptation technologies on built environment

Author : Allen N. Berger,Mustafa U. Karakaplan,Raluca A. Roman
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780443152733

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The Economic and Financial Impacts of the COVID-19 Crisis Around the World by Allen N. Berger,Mustafa U. Karakaplan,Raluca A. Roman Pdf

The Economic and Financial Impacts of the COVID-19 Crisis Around the World: Expect the Unexpected provides an informed, research-based in-depth understanding of the COVID-19 crisis, its impacts on households, nonfinancial firms, banks, and financial market participants, and the effectiveness of the reactions of governments and policymakers in the United States and around the world. It provides reflections and perspectives on the social costs and benefits of various policies undertaken and a toolkit of preventive measures to deal with crises beyond the COVID-19 crisis. Authors Allen N. Berger, Mustafa U. Karakaplan, and Raluca A. Roman apply their expertise to the research and data on the COVID-19 economic crisis as well as draw on their own rich research experience. They take a holistic approach that compares and contrasts this crisis with other economic and financial crises and assesses economic and financial behavior and government policies in the booms before crises and the aftermaths following them, as well as the crises themselves. They do all this with a keen eye on “Expecting the Unexpected future crises, and policies that might anticipate them and provide better outcomes for society. Serves as a compendium of available research and data on COVID-19, policies in response to the pandemic, and its effects on the real economy, banking sector, and financial markets Contextualizes the COVID-19 economic crisis by comparing it to two other global crises from the past: the Crash of 1929 and the Global Financial Crisis of 2007–2009 Helps illustrate how crises that originate in financial markets and in the banking sector differ from each other as well as from the COVID-19 crisis that harmed the real economy first Compares the policies and outcomes of nations to the COVID-19 pandemic and assesses their costs and benefits, with potential implications for prospective future crises

Author : Mr. Shekhar Aiyar,Mr. Jiaqian Chen,Mr. Christian H Ebeke,Mr. Roberto Garcia-Saltos,Tryggvi Gudmundsson,Ms. Anna Ilyina,Mr. Alvar Kangur,Tansaya Kunaratskul,Mr. Sergio L. Rodriguez,Michele Ruta,Tatjana Schulze,Gabriel Soderberg,Mr. Juan P Trevino
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9798400229046

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Geo-Economic Fragmentation and the Future of Multilateralism by Mr. Shekhar Aiyar,Mr. Jiaqian Chen,Mr. Christian H Ebeke,Mr. Roberto Garcia-Saltos,Tryggvi Gudmundsson,Ms. Anna Ilyina,Mr. Alvar Kangur,Tansaya Kunaratskul,Mr. Sergio L. Rodriguez,Michele Ruta,Tatjana Schulze,Gabriel Soderberg,Mr. Juan P Trevino Pdf

After several decades of increasing global economic integration, the world is facing the risk of policy-driven geoeconomic fragmentation (GEF). This note explores the ramifications. It identifies multiple channels through which the benefits of globalization were earlier transmitted, and along which, conversely, the costs of GEF are likely to fall, including trade, migration, capital flows, technology diffusion and the provision of global public goods. It explores the consequences of GEF for the international monetary system and the global financial safety net. Finally, it suggests a pragmatic path forward for preserving the benefits of global integration and multilateralism

Author : Mr. Serhan Cevik,João Tovar Jalles
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9798400241307

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Eye of the Storm: The Impact of Climate Shocks on Inflation and Growth by Mr. Serhan Cevik,João Tovar Jalles Pdf

What is the impact of climate change on inflation and growth dynamics? This is not a simple question to answer as climate shocks tend to be ubiquitous, but with opposing effects simultaneously on demand and supply. The extent of which climate-related shocks affect inflation and economic growth also depends on long-run scarring in the economy and the country’s fiscal and institutional capacity to support recovery. In this paper, we use the local projection method to empirically investigate how climate shocks, as measured by climate-induced natural disasters, influence inflation and economic growth in a large panel of countries over the period 1970–2020. The results shows that both inflation and real GDP growth respond significantly but also differently in terms of direction and magnitude to different types of disasters caused by climate change. We split the full sample of countries into income groups—advanced economies and developing countries—and find a striking contrast in the impact of climate shocks on inflation and growth according to income level, state of the economy, and fiscal space when the shock hits.

Author : Steffen Bauer,Imme Scholz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136542022

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Adaptation to Climate Change in Southern Africa by Steffen Bauer,Imme Scholz Pdf

Adverse climate impacts are already evident across Southern Africa and pose a serious threat to the development prospects of the region's societies. Sustainable development in this region will depend on the rapid development and implementation of effective adaptation measures. This volume identifies the new socioeconomic and political boundaries to development that result from ongoing climate change in Southern Africa. The collected papers explore the region's potential for a transition to development strategies that combine meaningful socioeconomic investment and adaptation measures while also improving livelihoods in the region. The chapters are backed up by detailed case studies which underscore the urgent need for national governments and multilateral agencies to develop strategies to support Southern Africa's societies in adapting to climate change.

Author : David Held,Angus Fane-Hervey,Marika Theros
Publisher : Polity
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745652023

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The Governance of Climate Change by David Held,Angus Fane-Hervey,Marika Theros Pdf

An important new collection based on a series of recent Miliband lectures. Leading figures discuss the pressing issues of climate change and sustainability. This features contributions by Ulrich Beck, Onora O'Neill, Peter Singer, and Ed and David Miliband.

Author : Mark Pelling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781134022021

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Adaptation to Climate Change by Mark Pelling Pdf

The impacts of climate change are already being felt. Learning how to live with these impacts is a priority for human development. In this context, it is too easy to see adaptation as a narrowly defensive task – protecting core assets or functions from the risks of climate change. A more profound engagement, which sees climate change risks as a product and driver of social as well as natural systems, and their interaction, is called for. Adaptation to Climate Change argues that, without care, adaptive actions can deny the deeper political and cultural roots that call for significant change in social and political relations if human vulnerability to climate change associated risk is to be reduced. This book presents a framework for making sense of the range of choices facing humanity, structured around resilience (stability), transition (incremental social change and the exercising of existing rights) and transformation (new rights claims and changes in political regimes). The resilience-transition-transformation framework is supported by three detailed case study chapters. These also illustrate the diversity of contexts where adaption is unfolding, from organizations to urban governance and the national polity. This text is the first comprehensive analysis of the social dimensions to climate change adaptation. Clearly written in an engaging style, it provides detailed theoretical and empirical chapters and serves as an invaluable reference for undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in climate change, geography and development studies.

Author : Rémi Genevey,R. K. Pachauri,Laurence Tubiana
Publisher : The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9788179935309

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Reducing Inequalities by Rémi Genevey,R. K. Pachauri,Laurence Tubiana Pdf

The reduction of inequalities within and between countries stands as a policy goal, and deserves to take centre stage in the design of the Sustainable Development Goals agreed during the Rio+20 Summit in 2012.The 2013 edition of A Planet for Life represents a unique international initiative grounded on conceptual and strategic thinking, and – most importantly – empirical experiments, conducted on five continents and touching on multiple realities. This unprecedented collection of works proposes a solid empirical approach, rather than an ideological one, to inform future debate.The case studies collected in this volume demonstrate the complexity of the new systems required to accommodate each country's specific economic, political and cultural realities. These systems combine technical, financial, legal, fiscal and organizational elements with a great deal of applied expertise, and are articulated within a clear, well-understood, growth- and job-generating development strategy.Inequality reduction does not occur by decree; neither does it automatically arise through economic growth, nor through policies that equalize incomes downward via ill conceived fiscal policies. Inequality reduction involves a collaborative effort that must motivate all concerned parties, one that constitutes a genuine political and social innovation, and one that often runs counter to prevailing political and economic forces.

Author : Neil Leary
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 845 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849770811

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Climate Change and Vulnerability and Adaptation by Neil Leary Pdf

'Sound and solid case studies on vulnerability and adaptation have been woefully lacking in the international discourse on climate change. This set of books begins to bridge the gap.' Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Director of United Nations Environment Programme 'Important reading for students and practitioners alike.' Martin Parry, Co-Chair, Working Group II (Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability), Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 'Fills an important gap in our understanding ... It is policy-relevant and deserves to be widely read.' Richard Klein, Senior Research Fellow, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Sweden The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded in its 2001 report that much of the developing world is highly vulnerable to adverse impacts from climate change. But the IPCC also concluded that the vulnerabilities of developing countries are too little studied and too poorly understood to enable determination of adaptation strategies that would be effective at reducing risks. These authoritative volumes, resulting from the work of the Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change (AIACC) project launched by the IPCC in 2002, are the first to provide a comprehensive investigation of the issues at stake. Climate Change and Vulnerability discusses who is vulnerable to climate change, the nature of their vulnerability and the causes of their vulnerability for parts of the world that have been poorly researched until now. Climate Change and Adaptation covers current practices for managing climate risks to food security, water resources, livelihoods, human health and infrastructure, needs for effective management of climate risks, the changing nature of the risks, strategies for adaptation, and the need to integrate these strategies into development planning and resource management.

Author : Thomas W. Kniesche
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783110422252

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Contemporary German Crime Fiction by Thomas W. Kniesche Pdf

A companion to contemporary German crime fiction for English-speaking audiences is overdue. Starting with the earlier Swiss “classics” Glauser and Dürrenmatt and including a number of important Austrian authors, such as Wolf Haas and Heinrich Steinfest, this volume will cover the essential writers, genres, and themes of crime fiction written in German. Where necessary and appropriate, crime fiction in media other than writing (TV-series, movies) will be included. Contemporary social and political developments, such as gender issues, life in a multicultural society, and the afterlife of German fascism today, play a crucial role in much of recent German crime fiction. A number of contributions to this volume will comment on the literary reflection of these issues in the texts. The goal of the volume is to make available to English-speaking audiences, to students, teachers and to a wider circle of interested readers, a series of articles on genres, topics, authors, and texts that will help them understand the scope and depth of German crime fiction, its ties to international traditions and also the specificity of the German context, its historical development and contemporary situation.

Author : Brett King,Dr. Richard Petty
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789815009293

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The Rise of Technosocialism: How Inequality, AI and Climate will Usher in a New World by Brett King,Dr. Richard Petty Pdf

Foreword by Dr. Harry Kloor What is the impact of COVID-19 on world economies? If the cost of providing universal health care is lower than the cost of building a political movement to prevent it, would politicians still view it as socialism? In a world where algorithms and robots take the jobs of immigrants and citizens alike, are border controls an effective response? If unemployment skyrockets due to automation, would conservative governments rather battle long-term social unrest, or could they agree on something like universal basic income? When renewable energy sources are a fraction of the cost of coal generated electricity, should lobbyists be able to prevent changes to energy infrastructure? When the crowd’s mood is measured in influence and exabytes, will real-time democracy render elections a thing of the past? International Bestselling authors Brett King and Dr. Richard Petty explore the seismic social changes that will be thrust on the world over the coming decades. The Rise of Technosocialism seeks to answer how our children will live with AI and climate disruption, the impact of COVID-19 in our lives along with which economies will likely emerge victorious in an always-on, smart world.

Author : Manfred Elsig,Michael Hahn,Gabriele Spilker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108485678

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The Shifting Landscape of Global Trade Governance by Manfred Elsig,Michael Hahn,Gabriele Spilker Pdf

Takes stock of current challenges to the world trading system and develops scenarios for the future.