Nigel Arnell

A Short Guide to Climate Change Risk (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Climate change poses a risk to business operations and to markets, but at the same time it can bring opportunities for some businesses. With chapters on the nature, science and politics of climate change, on the assessment and management of climate change risks, and recommendations for incorporating climate change risks into a Company Risk Management System, this concise guide serves the needs of business students and practitioners across a wide range of sectors, public and private.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351961882
• Artikelnr.: 47956465

Autorenporträt

Nigel Arnell is the Director of the Walker Institute at the University of Reading, and Professor of Climate System Science in the Department of Meteorology. He was formerly Professor of Geography and Head of the School of Geography at the University of Southampton. He trained as a geographer and has worked as a hydrologist. Professor Arnell has been researching the impacts of climate change for over 20 years and he helped develop methods used in the UK for assessing climate change impacts on water supply companies. He has close working relationships with companies in a number of business sectors and with UK and other government departments and agencies. Professor Arnell has contributed to all the assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 1995.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Climate change as a business risk
The science of climate change
The consequences of climate change
The politics of climate change: the regulatory context
Assessing climate change risks and opportunities
Coping with the risks of climate change
An overview
Index.