1st Edition
Climate-Resilient Development Participatory solutions from developing countries
Part I: Introduction 1. Why This Book? Why Now? Astrid Carrapatoso and Edith Kürzinger 2. Finding a Panacea? An Introduction into Climate-Resilient Development, Astrid Carrapatoso and Edith Kürzinger Part II: The Contribution of Local, Regional, and National Approaches to Climate-Resilient Development, or What Good Practices Can Be Disseminated or Mainstreamed? 3. Shaping Strategies: Factors and Actors in Climate Change Adaptation, Ciara Marie Kirrane, Cliona Sharkey and Lars Otto Naess 4. Climate Change Adaptation: International Policy and Field Reality in Benin, Marie-Ange Baudoin 5. Building Community-Based Institutions in the Western Orissa Rural Livelihoods Project (WORLP) for Green Development),Bhaskar Reddy Gala and Niranjan Sahu 6.How Good Are Good Practices? Demystifying Community-Based Disaster Risk Management in Mozambique , Luís J. Artur 7.Making a Difference through Integrated Natural Resource Management Programmes (INRM): The Role of KNUST University in Ghana, Sampson E. Edusah Part III: Climate-Resilient Development, Innovation, and Best Practice – How to Reform and Bypass Inefficiencies in the International Climate Regime 8.Green Gold versus Black Gold – Climate Change, Development and the Yasuní-ITT Initiative: An Alternative Way Forward? , Amy Woodrow-Arai 9. Developing Economies in the Current Climate Change Regime – New Prospects for Resilience and Sustainability? The Case of CDM Projects in Asia, Pauline Lacour and Jean-Christophe Simon 10. Does the Right Hand Know What the Left Hand is Doing? Similar Problem, Opposing Remedies – A Comparison of the Montreal Protocol and UNFCCC, Thomas Grammig 11.Interregional Climate Cooperation: EU-China Relations as a Success Story? Astrid Carrapatoso and Mareike Well 12. How to Bypass Multilateral Gridlocks – Resilient Climate Change Management and Efficient Multi-Level Climate Politics Bottom-up, Edith KürzingeR Part IV: The Way Forward to Climate-Resilient Development 12.Conclusions for Research and Policy Agendas, Astrid Carrapatoso and Edith Kürzinger
Biography
Astrid Carrapatoso is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany.
Edith Kürzinger is a freelance consultant, coach and trainer on sustainability issues with a background in development research (German Development Institute – DIE), development policy (Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development – BMZ) and project management (GTZ).
"...the book offers a variety of highly empirical and broad thinking chapters that offer both localized examples and expansive visions of climate-resilient development. It offers valuable information for students and analysts seeking examples of climate-related challenges. " - Tim Forsyth, Progress in Development Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science
