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Distributional impacts of climate change and disasters : concepts and cases / edited by Matthias Ruth and Maria E. Ibarraran.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- New horizons in environmental economics.
- New horizons in environmental economics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climatic changes.
- Environmental impact analysis.
- Climatic changes--Social aspects.
- Climatic changes--Risk management.
- Natural disasters--Social aspects.
- Natural disasters.
- Natural disasters--Economic aspects.
- Human beings--Effect of climate on.
- Human beings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (232 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Climate change tends to increase the frequency and intensity of weather-related disasters, which puts many people at risk. This book addresses the differential vulnerability of people and places, introducing concepts and methods for analysis and illustrating the impact on local, regional, national, and global scales.
- Contents:
- COVER; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; PART I Background; 1. Introduction: distributional effects of climate change - social and economic implications; 2. Vulnerability, sensitivity and coping/adapting capacity worldwide; 3. Climate change and natural disasters: economic and distributional impacts; PART II Differential Impacts; 4. Health impacts of heat: present realities and potential impacts of a climate change; 5. Gender and climate change vulnerability: what's the problem, what's the solution?
- 6. Income distribution effects of policies to mitigate greenhouse gases: the case of Mexico7. Climate change and cities: differential impacts and adaptation options in industrial countries; 8. Climate information, equity and vulnerability reduction; 9. The security challenges of climate change: who is at risk and why?; 10. Distributional effects and change of risk management regimes: explaining different types of adaptation in Germany and Indonesia; 11. Conclusions; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-44202-3
- 9786612442025
- 1-84980-233-5
- OCLC:
- 505432313
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