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

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Mearns, Robin.

Norton, Andrew, 1965-

Series:

New frontiers of social policy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social ecology.

Social change.

Climatic changes--Social aspects.

Climatic changes.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 319 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : World Bank, [2010]

Summary:

Climate change is arguably the most profound challenge facing the international community in the 21st century. It is as much a challenge for poverty reduction, growth, and development as it is a global environmental issue. Climate change could underline or reverse progress in reducing poverty and attaining the Millennium Development Goals, thereby unraveling many of the development gains of recent decades. It already threatens the livelihoods, health, and well-being of millions of people worldwide, particularly the poorest, most vulnerable groups.

This book focuses attention on these previously neglected and poorly understood social dimensions of climate change. It highlights equity and vulnerability as central organizing themes and illustrates the multiple ways that pro-poor climate policy and action should be integrated into existing approaches to poverty reduction and development-from the local to the global levels. This integration is needed both in terms of pro-poor approaches to climate change adaptation and in terms of better managing the social risks and potential benefits associated with measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Contents:

Equity and vulnerability in a warming world : introduction and overview / Robin Mearns and Andrew Norton

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, and Ole Magnus Theisen

Climate change and migration : emerging patterns in the developing world / Clionadh Raleigh and Lisa Jordan

The gender dimensions of poverty and climate change adaptation / Justina Demetriades and Emily Esplen

The role of indigenous knowledge in crafting adaptation and mitigation strategies for climate change in Latin America / Jakob Kronik and 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, and Camilla Toulmin

Toward pro-poor adaptation to climate change in the urban centers of low- and middle-income countries / Caroline Moser and David Satterthwaite

Social policies for adaptation to climate change / Rasmus Heltberg, Paul Bennett Siegel, and Steen Lau Jorgensen

Seeing people through the trees and the carbon : mitigating and adapting to climate change without undermining rights and livelihoods / Andy White ... [et al.].

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780821378878

0821378872

9780821381427

0821381423

OCLC:

297146441