Mohan Munasinghe

Primer on Climate Change and Sustainable Development (eBook, PDF)

Facts, Policy Analysis, and Applications

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Climate change and variability has become the primary environmental concern of the 21st Century. The potential impacts and mitigation of climate change need to be analyzed within the context of sustainable development. Primer on Climate Change and Sustainable Development presents a condensed and accessible review of the latest state-of-the-art assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The book begins with a foreword from the chair of the IPCC. Our current knowledge of the basic science of climate change is described, before moving on to future scenarios of development within the context of climate change. Possible adaptation and mitigation measures, including cost and benefit analysis, are discussed. The book will be an invaluable textbook for students of environmental science and policy, and researchers and policy makers involved in all aspects of climate change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511838965
• Artikelnr.: 38207553

Autorenporträt

Professor Mohan Munasinghe has post-graduate degrees in engineering, physics and development economics, from Cambridge University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, McGill University, and Concordia University. Presently, he is Chairman of the Munasinghe Institute For Development (MIND), Colombo; Vice Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Geneva; and Hon. Chief Energy Advisor to the Government of Sri Lanka, Colombo. From 1974-2002, he worked for the World Bank, Washington DC, in various positions including Director and Senior Advisor. From 1982 to 1987, he was the Senior Energy Advisor to the President of Sri Lanka. During 1990-92, he served as Advisor to the United States President's Council on Environmental Quality. He has implemented international development projects for three decades, and contributed to IPCC work for 15 years. He has won a number of international awards and medals for his research, authored over 80 books and several hundred technical papers, and serves on the editorial boards of a dozen international journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1. Climate change: scientific background and introduction; 2. Future scenarios of development and climate change; 3. Framework for making development more sustainable: concepts and analytical tools; 4. Making development more sustainable; 5. Adaptation to climate change: concepts, approaches and linkages with wider sustainable development issues; 6. Vulnerability, impacts and adaptation by sectors and systems; 7. Vulnerability, impacts and adaptation by geographic region; 8. Mitigating climate change: concepts and linkages with sustainable development; 9. Mitigating measures: technologies, practices, barriers and policy instruments; 10. Assessment of mitigation costs and benefits; 11. Climate change and sustainable development: a synthesis; Index.