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Climate change and global poverty : a billion lives in the balance?
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Climate change and global poverty : a billion lives in the balance?

Author: Lael Brainard; Abigail Jones; Nigel Purvis
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Discusses how climate solutions must empower global development by improving livelihoods, health, and economic prospects and how poverty alleviation must become a central strategy for reducing global vulnerability to adverse climate impacts. Draws on expertise to ask how public, private sectors can help the poor manage the global climate crisis"--Provided by publisher.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Lael Brainard; Abigail Jones; Nigel Purvis
ISBN: 9780815702818 0815702817
OCLC Number: 294886464
Description: viii, 299 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Contents: Double jeopardy : what the climate crisis means for the poor / Abigail Jones, Vinca LaFleur, and Nigel Purvis --
Climate change impacts in the developing world : implications for sustainable development / Anthony Nyong --
Toward a new international climate change agreement / Elliot Diringer --
Greenhouse gas mitigation efforts in China : progress and opportunities / Ned Helme --
Linking communities, forests, and carbon / Michael Jenkins --
Integrating climate change into development : multiple benefits of mitigation and adaptation / Atiq Rahman --
Development in the balance : agriculture and water / Robert Mendelsohn --
Public health adaptation to climate change in low-income countries / Kristie L. Ebi --
Linking adaptation and disaster risk reduction / Saleemul Huq and Jessica Ayers --
The climate-security connection : what it means for the poor / Joshua W. Busby --
Financing adaptation to a warmer world : opportunities for innovation and experimentation / Manish Bapna and Heather McGray --
Exploring the potential for public-private insurance to help the world's poor to adapt and thrive as the climate changes / Ian Burton and Thea Dickinson --
Corporate action on climate adaptation and development : mobilizing new partnerships to build climate change resilience in developing countries and communities / Jane Nelson --
Mobilizing action for climate change adaptation in the North and South / Heather K. Coleman, Raymond C. Offenheiser, and David Waskow.
Responsibility: Lael Brainard, Abigail Jones, Nigel Purvis, editors.

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Provides recommendations to integrate international development and climate protection strategies. This title demonstrates that effective climate solutions must empower global development, while  Read more...

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