Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
Climate Change and Food Security: Africa and the Caribbean
1st Edition
Edited
By Elizabeth Thomas Hope
March 05, 2019
Global climatic change has resulted in new and unpredictable patterns of precipitation and temperature, the increased frequency of extreme weather events and rising sea levels. These changes impact all four aspects of food security – availability, accessibility, stability of supply and appropriate ...
Urbanization and Climate Co-Benefits: Implementation of win-win interventions in cities
1st Edition
Edited
By Christopher Doll, Jose Puppim de Oliveira
January 11, 2019
Urban areas are increasingly contributing to climate change while also suffering many of its impacts. Moreover, many cities, particularly in developing countries, continue to struggle to provide services, infrastructure and socio-economic opportunities. How do we achieve the global goals on climate...
The Ethical Underpinnings of Climate Economics
1st Edition
Edited
By Adrian Walsh, Säde Hormio, Duncan Purves
January 10, 2019
Despite their obvious importance, the ethical implications of climate change are often neglected in economic evaluations of mitigation and adaptation policies. Economic climate models provide estimates of the value of mitigation benefits, provide understanding of the costs of reducing emissions, ...
Responding to Climate Change in Asian Cities: Governance for a more resilient urban future
1st Edition
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By Diane Archer, Sarah Colenbrander, David Dodman
September 27, 2018
The role of cities in addressing climate change is increasingly recognised in international arenas, including the Sustainable Development Goals, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and the New Urban Agenda. Asia is home to many of the countries that are most vulnerable to climate change ...
Climate Change and Social Inequality: The Health and Social Costs of Global Warming
1st Edition
By Merrill Singer
August 22, 2018
The year 2016 was the hottest year on record and the third consecutive record-breaking year in planet temperatures. The following year was the hottest in a non-El Nino year. Of the seventeen hottest years ever recorded, sixteen have occurred since 2000, indicating the trend in climate change is ...
Climate Change Finance and International Law
1st Edition
By Alexander Zahar
June 28, 2018
Since 2010, a significant quantity of international climate change finance has begun to reach developing countries. However, the transfer of finance under the international climate change regime – the legal and ethical obligations that underpin it, the constraints on its use, its intended outcomes,...
Ageing, Wellbeing and Climate Change in the Arctic: An interdisciplinary analysis
1st Edition
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By Paivi Naskali, Marjaana Seppänen, Shahnaj Begum
April 25, 2018
The Arctic and its unique natural resources have become objects of increasing concern. Rapid climate change and ageing of the population are transforming the living conditions in the region. This translates into an urgent need for information that will contribute to a better understanding of these ...
The Anthropology of Climate Change: An Integrated Critical Perspective
2nd Edition
By Hans A. Baer, Merrill Singer
March 29, 2018
In addressing the urgent questions raised by climate change, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the anthropology of climate change, guided by a critical political ecological framework. It examines the emergence and slow maturation of the anthropology of climate change, reviews the ...
Adapting Infrastructure to Climate Change: Advancing Decision-Making Under Conditions of Uncertainty
1st Edition
By Todd Schenk
January 08, 2018
Many of the challenges that decision-makers grapple with in relation to climate change are governance related. Planning and decision-making is evolving in ambiguous institutional environments, in which many key issues remain unresolved, including relationships between different actors; funding ...
Emergent Possibilities for Global Sustainability: Intersections of race, class and gender
1st Edition
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By Phoebe Godfrey, Denise Torres
January 03, 2018
It must be acknowledged that any solutions to anthropogenic Global Climate Change (GCC) are interdependent and ultimately inseparable from both its causes and consequences. As a result, limited analyses must be abandoned in favour of intersectional theories and practices. Emergent Possibilities for...
Strategies for Rapid Climate Mitigation: Wartime mobilisation as a model for action?
1st Edition
By Laurence Delina
January 03, 2018
To keep the global average temperature from rising further than 2°C, emissions must peak soon and then fall steeply. This book examines how such rapid mitigation can proceed – in the scale and speed required for effective climate action – using an analogy provided by the mobilisation for a war that...
Urban Poverty and Climate Change: Life in the slums of Asia, Africa and Latin America
1st Edition
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By Manoj Roy, Sally Cawood, Michaela Hordijk, David Hulme
January 03, 2018
This book deepens the understanding of the broader processes that shape and mediate the responses to climate change of poor urban households and communities in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Representing an important contribution to the evolution of more effective pro-poor climate change policies ...