Social dimensions of climate change
Subtitle: equity and vulnerability in a warming world
By: Robin Mearns and Andrew Norton, editors.
Contributors: Mearns, Robin.; Norton, Andrew.
Publisher: World Bank
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780821378878; 9780821381427
Subjects: Social ecology; Social change; Climatic changes -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Vulnerability does not just fall from the sky : towards multi-scale, pro-poor climate policy / Jesse Ribot; title: Implications of climate change for armed conflict / Halvard Buhaug, Nils Petter Gleditsch & Ole Magnus Theisen; title: Climate change and migration : emerging patterns in the developing world / Clionadh Raleigh & Lisa Jordan; title: The gender dimensions of poverty and climate change adaptation / Justina Demetriades & Emily Esplen; title: The role of indigenous knowledge in crafting adaptation and mitigation strategies to climate change in Latin America / Jakob Kronik & Dorte Verner; title: Local institutions and adaptation to climate change / Arun Agrawal; title: Climate change for agrarian societies in drylands : implications and future pathways / Simon Anderson, John Morton & Camilla Toulmin; title: Towards pro-poor adaptation to climate change in the urban centers of low- and middle-income countries / Caroline Moser & David Satterthwaite; title: Social policies for adaptation to climate change / Rasmus Heltberg, Steen Lau Jorgensen & Paul Bennett Siegel; title: 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 & William D. Sunderlin.