Reducing poverty, protecting livelihoods, and building assets in a changing climate
Subtitle: social implications of climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean
By: edited by Dorte Verner
Publisher: World Bank
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 431
ISBN-13: 9780821382387; 9780821383780
Description: Dorte Verner and her team are once again ahead of the curve, bringing home the threat not just to our planet but our people in Reducing Poverty, Protecting Livelihoods, and Building Assets in a Changing Climate. they focus on the danger in the most human terms, examining the risk to our planet's most vulnerable, in particular the world's poor who rely on natural resources to survive--resources endangered by extreme weather changes. While focusing on Latin America, this book reminds us all there isn't a place on earth exempt from the threat of climate change.It's a moral wake-up call.--John F. Kerry, U. S. Senator.

In this important and provocative volume, Dorte Verner and her colleagues provide an expansive treatment of climate change and its many effects, especially on the global poor--David Lee, Professor, Cornell University.

This book is bound to become the defining analysis of climate change's implications for poverty and social cohesion... A key guide for policy makers--Daniel Cohen, Professor and Vice President, Paris School of Economics.

This much-welcome overview provides guidelines and suggests priorities for designing and implementing suitable adaptation measures.--Anthony Hall, Professor, London School of Economics.

It is no longer possible to prevent damaging climate change. If used properly, this book will save many lives--Robert Waldmann. Professor, University of Rome.

This is persuasive, comprehensive, excellent, thoughtful, and well-written work--Steven Solomon, Author, WATER: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization.

This book is simply a must for all those concerned by climate change.--

Javier Santiso, Professor of Economics, ESADE Business School.

This is first time to have a comprehensive social assessment of climate change and it will become a standard reference.--Shengen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute.

This book presents evidence that we must improve our efforts on resilience and adaptation measures to counter the consequences of climate change on the most vulnerable population groups--Soren Pind, Minister for Development Cooperation, Denmark.

The team is to be congratulated--very well compiled and analyzed--Augusta Molnar, Rights and Resources Initiative --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Water scarcity, climate change, and the poor; title: Climate change, disaster hotspots, and asset erosion; title: Agrarian livelihoods and climate change; title: Coastal livelihoods and climate change; title: Human health and climate change; title: Migration and climate change; title: Conflict and climate change; title: Simulating the effects of climate change on poverty and inequality; title: Building short-term coping capacity and longer-term resilience through asset-based adaptation; title: Conclusion.