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.
Series: New frontiers of social policy; New frontiers of social policy
Publisher: World Bank
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9780821378878; 9780821381427
Subjects: Social ecology; Social change; Climatic changes -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Equity and vulnerability in a warming world : introduction and overview / Robin Mearns and Andrew Norton; title: Vulnerability does not fall from the sky : toward multiscale, pro-poor climate policy / Jesse Ribot; title: Implications of climate change for armed conflict / Halvard Buhaug, Nils Petter Gleditsch, and Ole Magnus Theisen; title: Climate change and migration : emerging patterns in the developing world / Clionadh Raleigh and Lisa Jordan; title: The gender dimensions of poverty and climate change adaptation / Justina Demetriades and Emily Esplen; title: The role of indigenous knowledge in crafting adaptation and mitigation strategies for climate change in Latin America / Jakob Kronik and 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, and Camilla Toulmin; title: Toward pro-poor adaptation to climate change in the urban centers of low- and middle-income countries / Caroline Moser and David Satterthwaite; title: Social policies for adaptation to climate change / Rasmus Heltberg, Paul Bennett Siegel, and Steen Lau Jorgensen; title: Seeing people through the trees and the carbon : mitigating and adapting to climate change without undermining rights and livelihoods / Andy White ... [et al.].