Primer on Climate Change and Sustainable Development
Facts, Policy Analysis, and Applications

Condensed, accessible review of latest state-of-the-art assessments of IPCC, within context of sustainable development.

Mohan Munasinghe (Author), Rob Swart (Author)

9780521008884, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 3 March 2005

458 pages, 70 b/w illus. 41 tables
24.8 x 17.5 x 2.6 cm, 0.953 kg

Climate change and variability has become the primary environmental concern of the 21st Century. The potential impacts and mitigation of climate change need to be analyzed within the context of sustainable development. Primer on Climate Change and Sustainable Development presents a condensed and accessible review of the latest state-of-the-art assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The book begins with a foreword from the chair of the IPCC. Our current knowledge of the basic science of climate change is described, before moving on to future scenarios of development within the context of climate change. Possible adaptation and mitigation measures, including cost and benefit analysis, are discussed. The book will be an invaluable textbook for students of environmental science and policy, and researchers and policy makers involved in all aspects of climate change.

Foreword
Acknowledgements
1. Climate change: scientific background and introduction
2. Future scenarios of development and climate change
3. Framework for making development more sustainable: concepts and analytical tools
4. Making development more sustainable
5. Adaptation to climate change: concepts, approaches and linkages with wider sustainable development issues
6. Vulnerability, impacts and adaptation by sectors and systems
7. Vulnerability, impacts and adaptation by geographic region
8. Mitigating climate change: concepts and linkages with sustainable development
9. Mitigating measures: technologies, practices, barriers and policy instruments
10. Assessment of mitigation costs and benefits
11. Climate change and sustainable development: a synthesis
Index.

Subject Areas: Environmental science, engineering & technology [TQ], Meteorology & climatology [RBP], Environmental economics [KCN]