Primer on climate change and sustainable development : facts, policy analysis, and applications / Mohan Munasinghe, Rob Swart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Munasinghe, Mohan, 1945-

Contributor:

Swart, R. J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable development.

Climatic changes.

Physical Description:

xii, 445 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Summary:

Climate change and variability has become the primary environmental concern of the twenty-first century; the potential impacts and mitigation of climate change need to be analysed within the context of sustainable development. How does climate change affect sustainable development prospects? How can climate change response measures best be incorporated into broader development strategies?

This Primer on Climate Change and Sustainable Development gives an up-to-date, comprehensive and accessible overview of the links between climate change and sustainable development. Building on the main findings of the last series of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment reports, in which both authors were involved, the book summarizes the latest research linking climate change and sustainable development. 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. The authors identify opportunities for synergies and resolving potential trade-offs. Discussing theory, policy analysis and applications, they analyse effective implementation of climate policy at scales ranging from the global to the local. The book contains a foreword from the chair of the IPCC.

This book will be compulsory reading for those policy-makers, scientists, students and engaged citizens around the world who have an interest in any aspect of climate change and sustainable development.

Contents:

1 Climate change: scientific background and introduction 1

1.3 Historical record, recent observations, and climate system outlook 8

1.4 Impacts and vulnerability 36

1.5 Rationale for action: adaptation and mitigation as part of a sustainable development strategy 49

2 Future scenarios of development and climate change 56

2.2 IPCC Scenarios 57

2.3 Sustainability scenarios: the Global Scenario Group 85

2.4 Other scenarios 90

3 Framework for making development more sustainable (MDMS): concepts and analytical tools 99

3.1 Preliminary ideas 99

3.2 Key elements of sustainomics 104

3.3 Integration of economic, social and environmental considerations 112

3.4 Making development more sustainable: decision criteria and analytical tools 121

3.5 Improving the sustainability of conventional growth 131

4 Interactions between climate and development 143

4.1 Circular relationship between climate change and sustainable development 143

4.2 Principles for applying the sustainomics framework to climate change 145

4.3 Sustainable development and adaptation 149

4.4 Sustainable development and mitigation 150

4.5 Climate change and sustainable development: Interactions at the global level 153

4.6 Climate change and sustainable development: interactions at the national and subnational levels 159

5 Adaptation to climate change: concepts, and linkages with sustainable development 172

5.1 Introduction to adaptation 172

5.2 Adaptive capacity 185

5.3 Future costs and benefits of adaptation 192

6 Vulnerability, impacts, and adaptation by sectors and systems 207

6.1 Hydrology and water resources 207

6.2 Managed and natural ecosystems 210

6.3 Coastal zones and marine ecosystems 215

6.4 Energy, industry, and settlements 217

6.5 Financial resources and services 220

6.6 Human health 221

7 Vulnerability, impacts, and adapation by geographic region 231

7.1 Africa 231

7.2 Asia 238

7.3 Australia and New Zealand 243

7.4 Europe 246

7.5 Latin America and the Caribbean 249

7.6 North America 251

7.7 Polar regions 256

7.8 Small island states 258

8 Mitigating climate change: concepts and linkages with sustainable development 269

8.1 Review of basic concepts and methodology 269

8.2 Long-term mitigation and stabilization scenarios 278

8.3 Links with development, equity, and sustainability issues 296

9 Mitigation measures: technologies, practices, barriers, and policy instruments 304

9.1 Scope for greenhouse gas emissions reduction technologies 304

9.2 Scope for biological greenhouse gas mitigation methods 334

9.3 Scope for structural economic changes and behavioural options 346

9.4 Barriers and scope for practical implementation 350

9.5 Policies, measures, and instruments 357

9.6 Special issues in developing countries 370

10 Assessment of mitigation costs and benefits 381

10.1 Costing models of greenhouse gas abatement 381

10.2 Sectoral costs and benefits of both domestic and international mitigation policies and related measures 385

10.3 National, regional, and global costs and benefits of both domestic and national polices and related measures 401

10.4 No regrets, co-benefits, double dividend, spillover effects, leakages and avoided damages 408

10.5 Costs of meeting a range of stabilization targets 415

11 Climate change and sustainable development: a synthesis 426

11.1 Summary of main findings 426

11.2 Developing a science of sustainable development and applying the knowledge base to climate change 432.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0521810663

0521008883

OCLC:

56096490

Publisher Number:

9780521810663

9780521008883

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