Primer on climate change and sustainable development : facts, policy analysis and applications / Mohan Munasinghe, Rob Swart.
"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...
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2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Climate change: scientific background and introduction
- Future scenarios of development and climate change
- Framework for making development more sustainable: concepts and analytical tools
- Making development more sustainable
- Adaptation to climate change: concepts, approaches and linkages with wider sustainable development issues
- Vulnerability, impacts and adaptation by sectors and systems
- Vulnerability, impacts and adaptation by geographic region
- Mitigating climate change: concepts and linkages with sustainable development
- Mitigating measures: technologies, practices, barriers and policy instruments
- Assessment of mitigation costs and benefits
- Climate change and sustainable development: a synthesis.