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Climate change and global poverty : a billion lives in the balance?

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Title:	Climate change and global poverty : a billion lives in the balance? / Lael Brainard, Abigail Jones, Nigel Purvis, editors.
Imprint:	Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2009.
Physical Description:	viii, 299 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:	Double jeopardy : what the climate crisis means for the poor / Abigail Jones, Vinca LaFleur, and Nigel Purvis -- Climate change impacts in the developing world : implications for sustainable development / Anthony Nyong -- Toward a new international climate change agreement / Elliot Diringer -- Greenhouse gas mitigation efforts in China : progress and opportunities / Ned Helme -- Linking communities, forests, and carbon / Michael Jenkins -- Integrating climate change into development : multiple benefits of mitigation and adaptation / Atiq Rahman -- Development in the balance : agriculture and water / Robert Mendelsohn -- Public health adaptation to climate change in low-income countries / Kristie L. Ebi -- Linking adaptation and disaster risk reduction / Saleemul Huq and Jessica Ayers -- The climate-security connection : what it means for the poor / Joshua W. Busby -- Financing adaptation to a warmer world : opportunities for innovation and experimentation / Manish Bapna and Heather McGray -- Exploring the potential for public-private insurance to help the world's poor to adapt and thrive as the climate changes / Ian Burton and Thea Dickinson -- Corporate action on climate adaptation and development : mobilizing new partnerships to build climate change resilience in developing countries and communities / Jane Nelson -- Mobilizing action for climate change adaptation in the North and South / Heather K. Coleman, Raymond C. Offenheiser, and David Waskow
Summary:	"Discusses how climate solutions must empower global development by improving livelihoods, health, and economic prospects and how poverty alleviation must become a central strategy for reducing global vulnerability to adverse climate impacts. Draws on expertise to ask how public, private sectors can help the poor manage the global climate crisis"--Provided by publisher.
Subject (LC):	Climatic changes--Economic aspects.
Subject (LC):	Global environmental change.
Subject (LC):	Global temperature changes.
Subject (LC):	Poverty--Government policy.
Subject (LC):	Economic geography.
Subject (LC):	Economic development--International cooperation.
Added author:	Brainard, Lael.
Added author:	Jones, Abigail.
Added author:	Purvis, Nigel.
ISBN:	9780815702818 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN:	0815702817 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Catkey: 8287237

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	Copy	Holds	Location
QC903 .C545 2009	1		LAW BASEMENT