Development Policy as a Way to Manage Climate Change Risks

Informationen zum Autor Bert Metz and Marcel Kok are senior researchers at the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency in the programme on Global Sustainability. Bert Metz is also co-chairman of the Working Group on Climate Change Mitigation of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Zusammenfassung The integration of development and climate objectives is increasingly recognized as significant in research and policy making. This book explores what lessons exist for policy at the national and international level and looks at how promising options for local policies can be scaled-up through international initiatives. Inhaltsverzeichnis Integrating Development and Climate Policies * Integrating Development and Climate Policies: National and International Benefits * Methods for Quantifying Benefits of Sustainable Development Policies and Measures (SD-PAMs) * Bilateral and Multilateral Financial Assistance for the Energy Sector of Developing Countries * Financing the Integration of Climate Change Mitigation into Development * Adaptation and the Poor: Development! Resilience and Transition * Adapting Development Cooperation to Adapt to Climate Change * Climate Adaptation from a Poverty Perspective * Sustainable Development and Climate Change: Lessons from Country Studies * Brazilian Transport Initiatives with GHG Reductions as a Co-benefit

Product details

• Authors: Bert Metz, M Kok J T, Bert Metz, Bert (EDT)/ Kok Metz
• Assisted by: Marcel Kok (Editor), M Kok J T (Editor), Bert Metz (Editor), Metz Bert (Editor)
• Publisher: Stylus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2008
• EAN: 9781844076413
• ISBN: 978-1-84407-641-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 191 mm x 267 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Climate Change, NATURE / Ecology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Social impact of environmental issues, Development Studies