Building a climate resilient economy and society : challenges and opportunities / edited by K.N. Ninan, Chairperson, Centre for Economics, Environment and Society, Bangalore, India and Co-Chair, Panel on Methodological Assessment of Scenarios and Models of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, United Nations, Bonn, Germany, Makoto Inoue, Professor of Environmental Sociology, Faculty of Human Sciences, Waseda University and former Professor of Global Forest Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the University of Tokyo, Japan ; foreword by Sir Robert T. Watson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ninan, K. N. (Karachepone Ninan), 1950- editor.

Inoue, Makoto, 1960- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Economic aspects.

Climatic changes.

Climatic changes--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 306 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

regular print

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northhampton, MA : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2017]

Contents:

Part I. Vulnerability, adaptation and resilience. The environmental impact of climate change adaptation on land use and water quality

Adaptive capacity contributing to improved agricultural productivity at the household level: empirical findings highlighting the importance of crop insurance

Adapting to climate change and improving urban resilience the role of nature and biodiversity protection in cities

Coproducing resilience through understanding vulnerability

Climate resilience and sustainable development: challenges and options for small island developing states .Part II. Climate resilience: sectoral perspectives. Part III. Incentives, governance and policy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781785368448

1785368443

OCLC:

967369667

Publisher Number:

99973529722