Climate change as environmental and economic hazard / guest editor Boris Porfiriev.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Porfirev, B. N. (Boris Nikolaevich)

Series:

Environmental hazards (Abingdon, Oxon) ; v. 8 no. 3.

Environment hazards: human and policy dimensions ; 18/3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes.

Climatic changes--Economic aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (79 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The current policy for climate change prioritises mitigation over adaptation. The collected papers of Climate Change as Environmental and Economic Hazard argue that although efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are still vital, the new policy paradigm should shift the priority to adaptation, with a special focus on disaster risk reduction. It should also consider climate change not purely as a hazard and a challenge, but as a window of opportunity to shift to a new sustainable development policy model, which stresses the particular importance of communities' resilience.

Contents:

Contents; Editorial - Climate change: A hazard or an opportunity? by Boris Porfiriev; Research article: Strengthening socio-ecological resilience through disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation: Identifying gaps in an uncertain world; Research article: United States hurricane landfalls and damages: Can one- to five-year predictions beat climatology?; Research article: Building a low-carbon economy: The inaugural report of the UK Committee on Climate Change; Research article: Managing natural disaster risks in a changing climate

Research article: Responsibility framing in a `climate change induced' compounded crisis: Facing tragic choices in the Murray-Darling Basin

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-136-54621-9

1-136-54622-7

1-282-50602-1

9786612506024

1-84977-441-2

9781849774413

OCLC:

814518789