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Fairness in adaptation to climate change
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Providing a scientific and policy analysis on the challenges of ensuring that adaptation to global climate change doesn't place unfair burdens on vulnerable populations, this book argues that the k...
Providing a scientific and policy analysis on the challenges of ensuring that adaptation to global climate change doesn't place unfair burdens on vulnerable populations, this book argues that the key to adapting to climate change lies in recognising the equity and justice issues inherent in its causes and in human responses to it.
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- Creator
- edited by W. Neil Adger, Jouni Paavola, Saleemul Huq, and M.J. Mace
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- English
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- Publication
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- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 319 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780262511933, 9780262012270, 0262012278, 0262266814, 142377454X, 9786612096938, 1282096931, 0262511932, 9781423774549
- OCLC
- ocm62282543, ocm69661631
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-309) and index.
- Toward justice in adaptation to climate change / W. Neil Adger, Jouni Paavola, Saleemul Huq -- Dangers and thresholds in climate change and the implications for justice / Stephen H. Schneider, Janica Lane -- Adaptation under the UN framework convention on climate change: the international legal framework / M.J. Mace -- Exploring the social justice implications of adaptation and vulnerability / Kirstin Dow, Roger E. Kasperson, Maria Bohn -- Is it appropriate to identify winners and losers? / Robin Leichenko, Karen O'Brien -- Climate change, insecurity, and injustice / Jon Barnett -- Adaptation: who pays whom? / Paul Baer -- A welfare theoretic analysis of climate change inequities / Neil A. Leary -- Equity in national adaptation programs of action (NAPAs): the case of Bangladesh / Saleemul Huq, Mizan R. Khan -- Justice in adaptation to climate change in Tanzania / Jouni Paavola -- Adaptation and equity in resource dependent societies / David S.G. Thomas, Chasca Twyman -- Extreme weather and burden sharing in Hungary / Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer, Anna Vári -- Multifaceted justice in adaptation to climate change / Jouni Paavola, W. Neil Adger, Saleemul Huq