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Fairness in adaptation to climate change / edited by W. Neil Adger ... [et al.].

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Fairness in adaptation to climate change / edited by W. Neil Adger ... [et al.].
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006.

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  • Adger, W. Neil.
  • Huq, Saleemul
  • Mace, M. J.
  • Paavola, Jouni.
Description
xvi, 319 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Summary
Providing a scientific and policy analysis on the challenges of ensuring that adaptation to global climate change doesn't place unfair burdens on vulnerable populations, this book argues that the key to adapting to climate change lies in recognising the equity and justice issues inherent in its causes and in human responses to it.
Subject
  • Climatic changes > Political aspects
  • Environmental justice
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-309) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Toward justice in adaptation to climate change / W. Neil Adger, Jouni Paavola, Saleemul Huq -- Dangers and thresholds in climate change and the implications for justice / Stephen H. Schneider, Janica Lane -- Adaptation under the UN framework convention on climate change: the international legal framework / M.J. Mace -- Exploring the social justice implications of adaptation and vulnerability / Kirstin Dow, Roger E. Kasperson, Maria Bohn -- Is it appropriate to identify winners and losers? / Robin Leichenko, Karen O'Brien -- Climate change, insecurity, and injustice / Jon Barnett -- Adaptation: who pays whom? / Paul Baer -- A welfare theoretic analysis of climate change inequities / Neil A. Leary -- Equity in national adaptation programs of action (NAPAs): the case of Bangladesh / Saleemul Huq, Mizan R. Khan -- Justice in adaptation to climate change in Tanzania / Jouni Paavola -- Adaptation and equity in resource dependent societies / David S.G. Thomas, Chasca Twyman -- Extreme weather and burden sharing in Hungary / Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer, Anna Vári -- Multifaceted justice in adaptation to climate change / Jouni Paavola, W. Neil Adger, Saleemul Huq.
ISBN
  • 0262012278 (alk. paper)
  • 0262511932 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2005056246
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library