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Author |
: John Connell |
Publisher |
: Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 363 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781781003510 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1781003513 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Islands at Risk? by : John Connell
This book provides a wide-ranging comparative analysis of contemporary economic, social, political and environmental change in small islands, island states and territories, through every ocean. It focuses on those island realms conventionally perceived as developing, rather than developed, in the Caribbean, Pacific and Indian Oceans. John Connell examines the decline of agriculture and the rise of tourism, the problems of urbanization, and the particular role of migration and remittances, within a culture of migration. He seeks to balance economic challenges with environmental threats, notably that of climate change, and social changes with the survival of culture, pointing to awkward and hybrid development futures. This unique study comprehensively balances environmental, social and economic changes to provide a more wide-ranging assessment of sustainability that will be invaluable for academics and postgraduate students on environment and international development courses.
Author |
: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 755 |
Release |
: 2022-04-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1009157973 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781009157971 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate by : Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading international body for assessing the science related to climate change. It provides policymakers with regular assessments of the scientific basis of human-induced climate change, its impacts and future risks, and options for adaptation and mitigation. This IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate is the most comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the observed and projected changes to the ocean and cryosphere and their associated impacts and risks, with a focus on resilience, risk management response options, and adaptation measures, considering both their potential and limitations. It brings together knowledge on physical and biogeochemical changes, the interplay with ecosystem changes, and the implications for human communities. It serves policymakers, decision makers, stakeholders, and all interested parties with unbiased, up-to-date, policy-relevant information. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Author |
: Lalit Kumar |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 552 |
Release |
: 2020-01-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030328788 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030328783 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Climate Change and Impacts in the Pacific by : Lalit Kumar
This edited volume addresses the impacts of climate change on Pacific islands, and presents databases and indexes for assessing and adapting to island vulnerabilities. By analyzing susceptibility variables, developing comprehensive vulnerability indexes, and applying GIS techniques, the book's authors demonstrate the particular issues presented by climate change in the islands of the Pacific region, and how these issues may be managed to preserve and improve biodiversity and human livelihoods. The book first introduces the issues specific to island communities, such as high emissions impacts, and discusses the importance of the lithological traits of Pacific islands and how these physical factors relate to climate change impacts. From here, the book aims to analyze the various vulnerabilities of different island sectors, and to formulate a susceptibility index from these variables to be used by government and planning agencies for relief prioritization. Such variables include tropical cyclones, built infrastructures, proximity to coastal areas, agriculture, fisheries and marine resources, groundwater availability, biodiversity, and economic impacts on industries such as tourism. Through the categorization and indexing of these variables, human and physical adaptation measures are proposed, and support solutions are offered to aid the inhabitants of affected island countries. This book is intended for policy makers, academics, and climate change researchers, particularly those dealing with climate change impacts on small islands.
Author |
: John E. Hay |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 116 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015059176787 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Climate Variability and Change and Sea-level Rise in the Pacific Islands Region by : John E. Hay
Author |
: Reinhard Mechler |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 563 |
Release |
: 2018-11-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783319720265 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3319720260 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Loss and Damage from Climate Change by : Reinhard Mechler
This book provides an authoritative insight on the Loss and Damage discourse by highlighting state-of-the-art research and policy linked to this discourse and articulating its multiple concepts, principles and methods. Written by leading researchers and practitioners, it identifies practical and evidence-based policy options to inform the discourse and climate negotiations. With climate-related risks on the rise and impacts being felt around the globe has come the recognition that climate mitigation and adaptation may not be enough to manage the effects from anthropogenic climate change. This recognition led to the creation of the Warsaw International Mechanism on Loss and Damage in 2013, a climate policy mechanism dedicated to dealing with climate-related effects in highly vulnerable countries that face severe constraints and limits to adaptation. Endorsed in 2015 by the Paris Agreement and effectively considered a third pillar of international climate policy, debate and research on Loss and Damage continues to gain enormous traction. Yet, concepts, methods and tools as well as directions for policy and implementation have remained contested and vague. Suitable for researchers, policy-advisors, practitioners and the interested public, the book furthermore: • discusses the political, legal, economic and institutional dimensions of the issue• highlights normative questions central to the discourse • provides a focus on climate risks and climate risk management. • presents salient case studies from around the world.
Author |
: Jeffrey Sachs |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 420 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1594201277 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781594201271 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Common Wealth by : Jeffrey Sachs
Assessment of the environmental degradation, rapid population growth, and extreme poverty that threaten global peace and prosperity, with practical solutions based on a new economic paradigm for our crowded planet.
Author |
: Gilbert M. Gaul |
Publisher |
: Sarah Crichton Books |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 2019-09-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780374718527 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0374718520 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Geography of Risk by : Gilbert M. Gaul
This century has seen the costliest hurricanes in U.S. history—but who bears the brunt of these monster storms? Consider this: Five of the most expensive hurricanes in history have made landfall since 2005: Katrina ($160 billion), Ike ($40 billion), Sandy ($72 billion), Harvey ($125 billion), and Maria ($90 billion). With more property than ever in harm’s way, and the planet and oceans warming dangerously, it won’t be long before we see a $250 billion hurricane. Why? Because Americans have built $3 trillion worth of property in some of the riskiest places on earth: barrier islands and coastal floodplains. And they have been encouraged to do so by what Gilbert M. Gaul reveals in The Geography of Risk to be a confounding array of federal subsidies, tax breaks, low-interest loans, grants, and government flood insurance that shift the risk of life at the beach from private investors to public taxpayers, radically distorting common notions of risk. These federal incentives, Gaul argues, have resulted in one of the worst planning failures in American history, and the costs to taxpayers are reaching unsustainable levels. We have become responsible for a shocking array of coastal amenities: new roads, bridges, buildings, streetlights, tennis courts, marinas, gazebos, and even spoiled food after hurricanes. The Geography of Risk will forever change the way you think about the coasts, from the clash between economic interests and nature, to the heated politics of regulators and developers.
Author |
: Russell J. Maharaj |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 46 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015058154066 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pacific Islands at Risk by : Russell J. Maharaj
Author |
: Simron Singh |
Publisher |
: MDPI |
Total Pages |
: 202 |
Release |
: 2021-08-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783036509365 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3036509364 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Metabolism of Islands by : Simron Singh
This book makes the case for why we should care about islands and their sustainability. Islands are hotspots of biocultural diversity and home to 600 million people that depend on one-sixth of the earth’s total area, including the surrounding oceans, for their subsistence. Today, they are at the frontlines of climate change and face an existential crisis. Islands are, however, potential “hubs of innovation” that are uniquely positioned to be leaders in sustainability and climate action. This volume argues that a full-fledged program on “island industrial ecology” is urgently needed, with the aim of offering policy-relevant insights and strategies to sustain small islands in an era of global environmental change. The nine contributions in this volume cover a wide range of applications of socio-metabolic research, from flow accounts to stock analysis and their relationship to services in space and time. They offer insights into how reconfiguring patterns of resource use will allow island governments to build resilience and adapt to the challenges of climate change.
Author |
: Greg Fry |
Publisher |
: ANU Press |
Total Pages |
: 327 |
Release |
: 2015-12-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781925022827 |
ISBN-13 |
: 192502282X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis The New Pacific Diplomacy by : Greg Fry
Since 2009 there has been a fundamental shift in the way that the Pacific Island states engage with regional and world politics. The region has experienced, what Kiribati President Anote Tong has aptly called, a ‘paradigm shift’ in ideas about how Pacific diplomacy should be organised, and on what principles it should operate. Many leaders have called for a heightened Pacific voice in global affairs and a new commitment to establishing Pacific Island control of this diplomatic process. This change in thinking has been expressed in the establishment of new channels and arenas for Pacific diplomacy at the regional and global levels and new ways of connecting the two levels through active use of intermediate diplomatic associations. The New Pacific Diplomacy brings together a range of analyses and perspectives on these dramatic new developments in Pacific diplomacy at sub-regional, regional and global levels, and in the key sectors of global negotiation for Pacific states – fisheries, climate change, decolonisation, and trade.