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Aid Performance and Climate Change
Julian Caldecott
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Description for Aid Performance and Climate Change
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The richer countries spend about US$165 billion yearly on overseas aid, mainly to keep human development going. These efforts are undermined by climate change, water-catchment damage, biodiversity loss, and desertification, and their interactions with social systems at all scales, which few aid designs or evaluations fully address. This must change if aid performance is to be improved. Constraints to be overcome include limited understanding of the very complex systems that aid investments affect, and of the ecology behind climate change adaptation and mitigation. Aid Performance and Climate Change ... Read more
The richer countries spend about US$165 billion yearly on overseas aid, mainly to keep human development going. These efforts are undermined by climate change, water-catchment damage, biodiversity loss, and desertification, and their interactions with social systems at all scales, which few aid designs or evaluations fully address. This must change if aid performance is to be improved. Constraints to be overcome include limited understanding of the very complex systems that aid investments affect, and of the ecology behind climate change adaptation and mitigation. Aid Performance and Climate Change ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781138294486
SKU
V9781138294486
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Julian Caldecott
Julian Caldecott has a background in wildlife management and rainforest conservation. Since 2000 he has evaluated major aid investment programmes for the EC, UK, Norway, Finland, and Switzerland, five donors that together contribute more than a quarter of all official aid. His work focuses on design and performance issues concerning climate change, biodiversity, ecosystem management, and related matters of sustainability ... Read more
Reviews for Aid Performance and Climate Change
In over 30 years of working in climate, environment and international development this is the most extensive analysis of the lessons from climate and environment interventions based on solid evaluations that I have come across. A must-have for sustainability practitioners and evaluators, and a book I wish I had been able to read many years ago. - John Carstensen, ... Read more