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Climate Change Adaptation in Africa
In the context of growing global concerns about climate change, this book presents a regional and sub-continental synthesis of pastoralists' responses to past environmental changes …
Insuring Against Climate Change
This book provides one of the first systematic in-depth studies on regional catastrophe risk pools. It explores the various goals of these new financial instruments, illustrating …
Urban Poverty and Climate Change
This book deepens the understanding of the broader processes that shape and mediate the responses to climate change of poor urban households and communities in Asia, Africa and …
Responding to Climate Change in Asian Cities
The role of cities in addressing climate change is increasingly recognised in international arenas, including the Sustainable Development Goals, the UN Framework Convention on …
Toward a Binding Climate Change Adaptation Regime
The impact of climate change is global both in its cause and its effect. Thus there is a global responsibility for international cooperation to tackle the causes through mitigation …
Climate Change in the Global Workplace
This book offers a timely exploration of how climate change manifests in the global workplace. It draws together accounts of workers, their work, and the politics of resistance in …
Community Action and Climate Change
The failure of recent international negotiations to progress global action on climate change has shifted attention to the emergence of grassroots sustainability initiatives. These …
Adapting Infrastructure to Climate Change
Many of the challenges that decision-makers grapple with in relation to climate change are governance related. Planning and decision-making is evolving in ambiguous institutional …
The Two Degrees Dangerous Limit for Climate Change
This book is about the history, present and future of one the most important policy ideas of the modern era – that there is a single, global dangerous amount of climate change. …
Climate Change and Food Security
Global climatic change has resulted in new and unpredictable patterns of precipitation and temperature, the increased frequency of extreme weather events and rising sea levels. …
Toward a New Climate Agreement
Climate change is one of the most pressing problems facing the global community. Although most states agree that climate change is occurring and is at least partly the result of …
Strategies for Rapid Climate Mitigation
To keep the global average temperature from rising further than 2°C, emissions must peak soon and then fall steeply. This book examines how such rapid mitigation can proceed – in …