1st Edition
Climate Change as Environmental and Economic Hazard
Edited By Boris Porfiriev
Copyright 2010
78 Pages
by
Routledge
80 Pages
by
Routledge
80 Pages
by
Routledge
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The current policy for climate change prioritises mitigation over adaptation. The collected papers of Climate Change as Environmental and Economic Hazard argue that although efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are still vital, the new policy paradigm should shift the priority to adaptation, with a special focus on disaster risk reduction. It should also consider climate change not purely... Read more
1. Managing Natural Disaster Risks in a Changing Climate
2. Strengthening Socio-ecological Resilience through Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation: Identifying Gaps in an Uncertain World
3. United States Hurricane Landfalls and Damages: Can One to Five Year Predictions Beat Climatology?
4. Building a Low-Carbon Economy: The Inaugural Report of the UK Committee on Climate Change
5. Responsibility Framing in a 'Climate Change Induced' Compounded Crisis: Facing Tragic Choices in the Murray-Darling Basin
Biography
Boris Porfiriev is Director of the Risk and Crisis Research Centre at the Institute of Economics at the Russian Academy of Sciences
