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65%OFFBert Metz (Ed.) - Development Policy as a Way to Manage Climate Change Risks - 9781844076413 - V9781844076413
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Development Policy as a Way to Manage Climate Change Risks

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Description for Development Policy as a Way to Manage Climate Change Risks Hardback. The integration of development and climate objectives is increasingly recognized as significant in research and policy making. This book explores what lessons exist for policy at the national and international level and looks at how promising options for local policies can be scaled-up through international initiatives. Editor(s): Metz, Bert; Kok, Marcel. Num Pages: 151 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: GTF; RNPG; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 262 x 190 x 14. Weight in Grams: 521.

The integration of development and climate objectives is increasingly recognized as significant in research and policy making. In practice, some development aims, such as poverty alleviation, enhancing energy security and access or improving health, also have potential climate benefits. The challenge is to find a broadly applicable range of effective policies and actions that realize development objectives and at the same time result in real climate benefits.

This special issue of the Climate Policy journal focuses on new evidence that identifies options for action, examining how development strategies, policies and decisions can be made more sustainable by integrating climate change ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
147
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844076413
SKU
V9781844076413
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-2

About Bert Metz (Ed.)
Bert Metz and Marcel Kok are senior researchers at the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency in the programme on Global Sustainability. Bert Metz is also co-chairman of the Working Group on Climate Change Mitigation of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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