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Author : United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Organization)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Carbon
ISBN : UIUC:30112115677145
Author : Ian Burton,Elizabeth Malone,Saleemul Huq
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 052161760X
Adaptation is a process by which individuals, communities and countries seek to cope with the consequences of climate change. The process of adaptation is not new; the idea of incorporating future climate risk into policy-making is. While our understanding of climate change and its potential impacts has become clearer, the availability of practical guidance on adaptation has not kept pace. The development of the Adaptation Policy Framework (APF) is intended to help provide the rapidly evolving process of adaptation policy-making with a much-needed roadmap. Ultimately, the purpose of the APF is to support adaptation processes to protect - and enhance - human well-being in the face of climate change. This volume will be invaluable for everyone working on climate change adaptation and policy-making.
Author : Juha I. Uitto,Rajib Shaw
Publisher : Springer
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9784431550785
This book focuses on exploring the linkages between natural disasters and sustainable development at the global, regional, and national levels. Disasters and development are closely related, yet the disciplinary silos prevail and there is little communication and cooperation between the disaster management, environment, and development communities. One catastrophic event, such as an earthquake, tsunami, or cyclone, can destroy infrastructure, people’s lives and livelihoods, and set back development. Similarly, slow onset disasters—often associated with global climate change—pose threats to development, livelihoods, food security, and long-term sustainable development. This book is uniquely aimed at bridging the gaps between the environmental, development, and disaster management communities. It traces the evolution of concepts and practice and highlights the linkages between natural disasters and sustainable development in key sectors, including food security, health, and water. The book includes case studies from the field highlighting the complex issues that challenge sustainable development and disaster risk management in practice. It draws policy conclusions for the global community based on state-of-the art knowledge from research and practice. The primary target groups for the book are researchers, including graduate students, in the fields of environment and sustainable development, geography, disaster risk reduction, and climate change studies. The second target group comprises practitioners and policymakers working in national and international organizations, the private sector, and civil society.
Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789292577643
Project economic analysis is a tool used by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to ensure that ADB operations comply with its Charter. The guidelines in this publication are a revised version of the 1997 edition. The revision responds to the changing development context and ADB operational priorities, and aims to address the recommendations of the ADB Quality-at-Entry Assessments for more methodological work on project economic analysis. The revised guidelines provide general principles for the conduct of project economic analysis, and should be read together with handbooks, technical reports, and other reference materials published by ADB dealing with sector-specific project economic analysis in detail.
Author : Daniel R. Klein,María Pía Carazo,Meinhard Doelle,Jane Bulmer,Andrew Higham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198789338
The Paris Agreement fundamentally alters the reach and scope of the international climate change regime. This book provides the first legal commentary to the Agreement's articles, putting them in context and detailing how they are to be understood and put into action.
Author : Isabel B. Franco
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811664212
This book aims to answer the question: how can the industry action international approaches to corporate sustainability, ultimately achieving sustainable development and overall sustainability? With this question in mind, this manuscript examines how the industry, through existing approaches to corporate sustainability, contribute to addressing conflicting demands emerging from the achievement of sustainable development in a responsible, sustainable and innovative manner. It also reviews alternative models of corporate sustainability that contribute to achieving inclusive, sustainable development globally. Chapters 2 to 4 discuss emerging approaches to corporate sustainability. Chapters 5 to 11 examine the role that the extractive industry (mining and oil) could play in the delivery of sustainable solutions for the communities and environment in selected cases, in the Americas and Africa. Lastly, the manuscript showcases international corporate sustainability and climate change practices in the forestry, agriculture, tourism and manufacturing industries within the context of Asia and The Pacific region, particularly, Nepal and Bangladesh.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9264054766
This book provides essential information and advice on how to facilitate the integration of climate change adaptation into development processes.
Author : John R. Burch, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781476626857
Climate change has long been a contentious issue, even before its official acknowledgment as a global threat in 1979. Government policies have varied widely, from Barack Obama’s dedication to environmentalism to George W. Bush’s tacit minimizing of the problem to Republican officials’ refusal to acknowledge the scientific evidence supporting anthropogenic climate change. Presented chronologically, this collection of important policy-shaping documents shows how the views of both advocates and deniers of climate change have developed over the past four decades.
Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789290929505
Investing in Resilience: Ensuring a Disaster-Resistant Future focuses on the steps required to ensure that investment in disaster resilience happens and that it occurs as an integral, systematic part of development. At-risk communities in Asia and the Pacific can apply a wide range of policy, capacity, and investment instruments and mechanisms to ensure that disaster risk is properly assessed, disaster risk is reduced, and residual risk is well managed. Yet, real progress in strengthening resilience has been slow to date and natural hazards continue to cause significant loss of life, damage, and disruption in the region, undermining inclusive, sustainable development. Investing in Resilience offers an approach and ideas for reflection on how to achieve disaster resilience. It does not prescribe specific courses of action but rather establishes a vision of a resilient future. It stresses the interconnectedness and complementarity of possible actions to achieve disaster resilience across a wide range of development policies, plans, legislation, sectors, and themes. The vision shows how resilience can be accomplished through the coordinated action of governments and their development partners in the private sector, civil society, and the international community. The vision encourages “investors” to identify and prioritize bundles of actions that collectively can realize that vision of resilience, breaking away from the current tendency to pursue disparate and fragmented disaster risk management measures that frequently trip and fall at unforeseen hurdles. Investing in Resilience aims to move the disaster risk reduction debate beyond rhetoric and to help channel commitments into investment, incentives, funding, and practical action
Author : Robin Mearns,Andrew Norton
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821381423
While major strides have been made in the scientific understanding of climate change, much less understood is how these dynamics in the physical enviornment interact with socioeconomic systems. This book brings together the latest knowledge on the consequences of climate change for society and how best to address them.
Author : United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Organization)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : UIUC:30112115823343
Author : Nyasha Chishakwe,Laurel Murray,Muyeye Chambwera
Publisher : International Inst for Environment
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1843698307
This publication, produced in collaboration with WWF Southern Africa, looks at how community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) can inform and contribute to climate change adaptation at the community level, specifically to community-based adaptation (CBA) to climate change. It provides a framework for analysing the two approaches at conceptual and practical levels. Using case studies from southern Africa, the publication demonstrates the synergies between CBA and CBNRM, most important of which are the adaptation co-benefits between the two. While local incentives have driven community action in CBNRM, it is the evolution of an enabling environment in the region, in the form of institutions, policies, capacity and collaboration which characterises the scaling up of CBNRM to national and regional levels.
Author : Wim A. Naudé,Amelia Uliafnova Santos Paulino,Mark McGillivray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015080789681
Vulnerability has become the defining challenge of our times. More than one billion people worldwide live in extreme poverty. Facing risks exacerbated by natural hazards, ill-health and macroeconomic volatility, many are mired in inescapable poverty while millions others are on the brink of poverty.The need to better understand vulnerability is pressing, particularly in the case of developing countries where bulwarks against risks can be in short supply. This volume brings together essays from leading scholars to study the critical dimensions of vulnerability in developing countries, including...
Author : United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789210041805
The Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR) is the flagship report of the United Nations on worldwide efforts to reduce disaster risk. The GAR is published biennially by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), and is the product of the contributions of nations, public and private risk-related science and research, amongst others. The GAR contributes to achieving the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development through monitoring risk patterns and trends, as well as progress in disaster risk reduction, while providing strategic policy guidance to countries and the international community. The GAR aims to focus international attention on the issue of risk and encourage political and economic support for risk reduction.
Author : Christopher B. Field,Vicente R. Barros
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1149 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107058071
This latest Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will again form the standard reference for all those concerned with climate change and its consequences, including students, researchers and policy makers in environmental science, meteorology, climatology, biology, ecology, atmospheric chemistry and environmental policy.