Bücher der Reihe Earthscan Climate

Based on the work of the Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change (AIACC) project launched with the IPCC in 2002, this title provides an investigation of the stakes in developing countries. It discusses who is vulnerable and the nature and causes of their vulnerability for some parts of the world.

Based on the work of the Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change (AIACC) project launched with the IPCC in 2002, this book investigates the stakes in developing countries. It identifies obstacles to effective adaptation and explores measures needed to create conditions that are favourable to climate change adaptation.

Small Island Developing States are often depicted as being among the most vulnerable of all places to the effects of climate change, and they are a cause celebre of many involved in climate science, politics and the media. This book applies a critical approach to climate change science and policy processes in the South Pacific region.

Brings together a wide-and detailed body of information identifying and assessing risk, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in urban centres in low- and middle-income countries. This book is suitable for policy makers, practitioners and academics who face the challenge of addressing climate change vulnerability.

This is a companion book to Earthscan¿s 2010 book Climate Change Adaptation and International Development, this time consisting of summarised case studies looking at climate change mitigation specifically in Asia, the region producing the most greenhouse gas emissions.

Climate change vulnerability assessment is a rapidly developing field. This book develops a framework for qualitative vulnerability assessment in 'multiple impact' studies (of climate change and globalization) and applies this framework to several cases of renewable natural resource use.