Primer on climate change and sustainable development : facts, policy analysis and applications / Mohan Munasinghe, Rob Swart.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Munasinghe, Mohan, 1945-
Other Authors: Swart, R. J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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Table of Contents:
  • Climate change: scientific background and introduction
  • Future scenarios of development and climate change
  • Framework for making development more sustainable: concepts and analytical tools
  • Making development more sustainable
  • Adaptation to climate change: concepts, approaches and linkages with wider sustainable development issues
  • Vulnerability, impacts and adaptation by sectors and systems
  • Vulnerability, impacts and adaptation by geographic region
  • Mitigating climate change: concepts and linkages with sustainable development
  • Mitigating measures: technologies, practices, barriers and policy instruments
  • Assessment of mitigation costs and benefits
  • Climate change and sustainable development: a synthesis.