Evaluating climate change and development
By: Rob D. van den Berg and Osvaldo Feinstein, editors.
Contributors: Van den Berg, Rob D.; Feinstein, Osvaldo Néstor.
Series: World bank series on development -- 8
Publisher: Transaction Publishers; Transaction; Eurospan [distributor]
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Brunswick, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9781412810432
Subjects: Climatic changes; Sustainable development; Economic development
Description: The dual challenges of climate change and development / Rob D. van den Berg and Osvaldo Feinstein -- Food, feed, fuel, and climate change : challenges, threats and possible actions / Ismail Serageldin -- Evaluating climate change and development / Robert Picciotto -- Climate change, development, and evaluation : can flexibility instruments promote sustainable development? / Joyeeta Gupta -- Challenges for the evaluation community / Osvaldo Feinstein -- Early lessons from analysis of the AFD/FFEM renewable energies and energy efficiency portfolio / Alain Ries, Koulm Dubus, and Jean David Naudet -- Evaluation techniques for disaster assistance projects : toward multi-disciplinary approaches / Claudine Voyadzis and Bastian de Laat -- Using impact evaluation to increase the efficacy of climate change interventions / Howard White -- Challenges for evaluating adaptation to climate change within the context of Africa / Fatima Denton -- The mitigation of climate change / John Soussan --^

Overview of climate change mitigation evaluations : what do we know? / Siv Tokle and Juha I. Uitto -- Contributing to global benefits or supporting local sustainable development : evidence from a global evaluation of UNDP's program / Howard M. Stewart, Juha I. Uitto, and Michael P. Wells -- Macroeconomic and sectoral impacts of climate change mitigation in Thailand / Govinda R. Timilsina -- Measuring the impact of Chinese provincial CDM centers for local market development / Miriam Schroeder -- The impact of BACIP energy-efficient products on domestic fuel savings in northern Pakistan / Nahida Khudadad and Qayum Ali Shah -- Monitoring and evaluation of adaptation to climate change interventions / Osvaldo Feinstein -- Evaluation of adaptation to climate change from a development perspective / Merylyn McKenzie Hedger [and others] -- Lessons on M & E from GEF climate change adaptation projects / Iván Darío Valencia --^

A framework for evaluating adaptation to climate change : evaluating climate change and development / Jennifer Frankel-Reed [and others] -- Climate change and adaptation accounting for flood hazard in Bangladesh / Monirul Qader Mirza -- Vulnerability, risks, and climate change / Nancy MacPherson -- Using monitoring and evaluation to strengthen climate adaptive capacity / Nathalie Beaulieu [and others] -- Making adaptation work for the vulnerable : an approach for assessing community-based interventions / Balgis Osman-Elasha [and others] -- Vulnerability assessment as a tool to build resilience among the coastal community of Mauritius / Kheswar Beeharry Panray, Guruprakash Noyensing, and Krisna Muni Reddi -- Lessons learned from participatory vulnerability assessments in Nepal / Ram Chandra Khanal -- Evaluation of adaptation to climate change and climate risk screening / Sreeja Nair, Thomas Tanner, and Suruchi Bhadwal --^

The future of evaluating climate change and development / Rob D. van den Berg and Margaret A. Spearman.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The dual challenges of climate change and development / Rob D. van den Berg and Osvaldo Feinstein; title: Food, feed, fuel, and climate change : challenges, threats and possible action / Ismail Serageldin; title: Evaluating climate change and development / Robert Picciotto; title: Climate change, development, and evaluation : can flexibility instruments promote sustainable development? / Joyeeta Gupta; title: Challenges for the evaluation community / Osvaldo Feinstein; title: Early lessons from analysis of the AFD/FFEM renewable energies and energy efficiency portfolio / Alain Ries, Koulm Dubus, and Jean David Naudet; title: Evaluation techniques for disaster assistance projects : towards multi-disciplinary approaches / Claudine Voyadzis & Bastiaan de Laat; title: Using impact evaluation to increase the efficacy of climate change interventions / Howard White; title: Challenges for evaluating adaptation to climate change within the context of Africa / Fatima Denton; title: The mitigation of climate change / John Soussan; title: Overview of climate change mitigation evaluations : what do we know? / Siv Tokle & Juha I. Uitto; title: Contributing to global benefits or supporting local sustainable development : evidence from a global evaluation of UNDP's program / Howard M. Stewart, Juha I. Uitto & Michael P. Wells; title: Macroeconomic and sectoral impacts of climate change mitigation in Thailand / Govinda R. Timilsina; title: Measuring the impact of chinese provincial CDM centers for local market development / Miriam Schroeder; title: The impact of bacip energy efficient products on domestic fuel savings in Northern Pakistan / Nahida Khudadad & Qayum Ali Shah; title: Monitoring and evaluation of adaptation to climate change interventions / Osvaldo Feinstein; title: Evaluation of adaptation to climate change from a development perspective / Merylyn McKenzie Hedger, Lisa Horrocks, Tom Mitchell, Jennifer Leavy & Martin Greeley; title: Lessons on M&E from GEF climate change adaptation projects / Ivan Dario Valencia; title: A framework for evaluating adaptation to climate change / Jennifer Frankel-Reed, Nick Brooks, Pradeep Kurukulasuriya & Bo Lim; title: Climate change and adaptation accounting for flood hazard in Bangladesh / Monirul Qader Mirza; title: Vulnerability, risks, and climate change / Nancy MacPherson; title: Using monitoring and evaluation to strengthen climate adaptive capacity : the approach of the climate change adaptation in Africa program / Nathalie Beaulieu, Fatima Denton, Victor Orindi, Simon Carter & Simon Anderson; title: Making adaptation work for the vulnerable : an approach for assessing community-based measures / Balgis Osman-Elasha, Erika Spanger-Siegfried, Bill Dougherty & Nagmeldin Goutbi; title: Vulnerability assessment as a tool to build resilience among the coastal community of Mauritius / Moonoosamy Kavida, Beeharry Panray Kheswar & Muni Reddi.R; title: Lessons learned from participatory vulnerability assessments in Nepal / Ram Chandra Khanal; title: Evaluation of adaptation to climate change : the concept of climate risk screening / Sreeja Nair, Thomas Tanner, Suruchi Bhadwal, Sangeet Kumar Srivastava and Pradhan Parth Sarthi; title: The future of evaluating climate change and development / Rob D. van den Berg & Margaret A. Spearman.