Climate Change and Development

Thomas Tanner, Leo Horn-Phathanothai

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9780415664264
• eBook ISBN: 9781136739132
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Environmental Science
• Index: Biological Sciences

The evidence for human-induced climate change is now overwhelming, the brunt of its impacts is already being felt by poor people, and the case for urgent action is compelling. This book addresses the two greatest challenges of our time – averting catastrophic climate change and eradicating poverty – and the close interconnections between them.

Climate Change and Development provides a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary foundation for understanding the complex and tangled relationship between development and climate change. It argues that transformational approaches are required in order to reconcile poverty reduction and climate protection and secure sustained prosperity in the twenty first century. Section One provides the building blocks for understanding climate science and the nexus between climate and development. Section Two outlines responses to climate change from the perspective of developing countries, with chapters on international agreements, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and climate finance. Each chapter offers analytical tools for evaluating responses, enabling readers to ask smart questions about the climate change and development nexus as policy and action evolve in the coming years. The last three chapters of the book, contained in Section Three, are forward looking and focus on why and how development must be re-framed to deliver more equitable and sustainable outcomes. This section sets out different critiques of 'development-as-usual' and explores alternative paradigms of development in a warming and resource-constrained world.

This is an invaluable and clearly written text that uses real world examples to bring to life perspectives from across different disciplines. It also contains chapter learning outcomes, and end of chapter summaries, discussion questions, and suggestions for further reading and relevant websites. The text is suitable for both undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as those working in international development contexts who wish to get to grips with this pressing global challenge.

Index

• 2°C rise agreement 62, 99, 120, 287, 297, 309
• 2008 economic crisis 3, 242–243, 253, 276
• 4°C world, preparing for 312–313

• abrupt change, possibility of see also 35
• adaptation
  • in a 4°C world 313
  • adaptation deficit 176–177, 203
  • adaptation tools 192
  • adaptive capacity 67–68, 73, 77, 165, 168, 173–177, 211
  • analytical approaches 179–194
  • climate resilient development 164–195
  • and climate science 29, 40
  • coping vs adaptation 170
  • costs 201, 205
  • definition and anatomy 64, 166–172
  • in developing countries 173–179
  • estimating finance needed 203
  • financial instruments 207, 210, 225–226
  • imperative for 67–70
  • linkage with mitigation 78–79
  • maladaptation 171–172, 212
  • more pressing in LDCs 106
  • and multinational companies 310
  • and private sector finance 216
• Adaptation Fund (Kyoto Protocol) 104, 105, 208, 209–210, 226
• additionality 101, 224, 227
• adjusted GDP measures 295
• aerosols 24, 26
• afforestation 149–151
• Africa
  • and Clean Development Mechanism 100
  • climate change projections for 35–36, 38
  • climate-proofing the Millennium Development Goals 204
  • foreign investors buying land in Africa 252
  • and global economic growth 240
• AGF (High-level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing) 223
• agricultural production
  • agricultural trade policies 290
  • Climate Smart Agriculture 102, 149
  • crop insurance schemes 183, 217–218
  • croplands, management of 154, 2...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of plates
• List of figures
• List of tables
• List of boxes
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• List of abbreviations and acronyms
• Introduction
• Section One Understanding the building blocks
• Section Two Responding to climate change as a development challenge
• Section Three Development futures in a transformed world
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index