Social dimensions of climate change : equity and vulnerability in a warming world
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Social dimensions of climate change : equity and vulnerability in a warming world
（New frontiers of social policy）
World Bank, c2010
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Equity and vulnerability in a warming world : introduction and overview / Robin Mearns and Andrew Norton
- Vulnerability does not fall from the sky : toward multiscale, pro-poor climate policy / Jesse Ribot
- Implications of climate change for armed conflict / Halvard Buhaug, Nils Petter Gleditsch, and Ole Magnus Theisen
- Climate change and migration : emerging patterns in the developing world / Clionadh Raleigh and Lisa Jordan
- The gender dimensions of poverty and climate change adaptation / Justina Demetriades and Emily Esplen
- The role of indigenous knowledge in crafting adaptation and mitigation strategies for climate change in Latin America / Jakob Kronik and Dorte Verner
- Local institutions and adaptation to climate change / Arun Agrawal
- Climate change for agrarian societies in drylands : implications and future pathways / Simon Anderson, John Morton, and Camilla Toulmin
- Toward pro-poor adaptation to climate change in the urban centers of low- and middle-income countries / Caroline Moser and David Satterthwaite
- Social policies for adaptation to climate change / Rasmus Heltberg, Paul Bennett Siegel, and Steen Lau Jorgensen
- Seeing people through the trees and the carbon : mitigating and adapting to climate change without undermining rights and livelihoods / Andy White, Jeffrey Hatcher, Arvind Khare, Megan Liddle, Augusta Molnar, and William D. Sunderlin
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Description
Climate change is arguably the most profound challenge facing the international community in the 21st century. It is as much a challenge for poverty reduction, growth and development as it is a global environmental issue. It could undermine or reverse progress in reducing poverty and attaining the Millenium Development Goals, thereby unraveling many of the development gains of recent decades. It already threatens the livelihoods, health and well-being of millions of people worldwide, and of the poorest and most vulnerable groups in particular. And it has potentially far-reaching implications for international relations and for personal, national and regional security.
While significant uncertainties still remain, tremendous strides have been made over recent years in improving scientific understanding of the human processes driving global climate change and the likely impacts on world ecosystems. What is much less well understood is how these dynamics in the physical environment will interact with those of socio-economic systems, what the consequences will be for society, and how best to address them. In order to focus attention on these previously neglected and poorly understood social dimensions of climate change, the World Bank convened an international workshop in March, 2008, with the participation of community activists, former heads of state, leaders of Indigenous Peoples, representatives of non-governmental organizations, international researchers, and staff of the World Bank and other international development agencies.
This edited volume brings together revised versions of many of the papers presented during that workshop, as an initial step in taking stock of existing knowledge on the social dimensions of climate change. Several new papers were also commissioned for this volume.
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