Distributional impacts of climate change and disasters : concepts and cases
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Matthias Ruth; María Eugenia Ibarrarán
- ناشر : Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar,
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2009
- شابک / ISBN : 9781848440371
Description
Introduction: distributional effects of climate change - social and economic implications / Matthias Ruth and Maria E. Ibarraran -- Vulnerability, sensitivity and coping/adapting capacity worldwide / Elizabeth Malone and Antoinette Brenkert -- Climate change and natural disasters: economic and distributional impacts / Maria E. Ibarraran and Matthias Ruth -- Health impacts of heat: present realities and potential impacts of a climate change / Laurence Kalkstein ... [et al.] -- Gender and climate change vulnerability: what's the problem, what's the solution? / Anthony G. Patt, Angie Diaz and Pablo Suarez -- Income distribution effects of policies to mitigate greenhouse gases: the case of Mexico / Roy Boyd and Maria E. Ibarraran -- Climate change and cities: differential impacts and adaptation options in industrialized countries / Matthias Ruth, Paul H. Kirshen and Dana Coelho -- Climate information, equity and vulnerability reduction / Pablo Suarez, Jesse C. Ribot and Anthony G. Patt -- The security challenges of climate change: who is at risk and why? / Timothy Gulden -- Distributional effects and change of risk management regimes: explaining different types of adaptation in Germany and Indonesia / Hellmuth Lange ... [et al.].
Climate change tends to increase the frequency and intensity of weather-related disasters, which puts many people at risk. This book addresses the differential vulnerability of people and places, introducing concepts and methods for analysis and illustrating the impact on local, regional, national, and global scales.
