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" Primer on climate change and sustainable development : "
Mohan Munasinghe, Rob Swart.
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981883
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Munasinghe, Mohan,1945-
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Primer on climate change and sustainable development : : facts, policy analysis and applications /\ Mohan Munasinghe, Rob Swart.
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Cambridge, UK ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 2005.
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1 online resource (xii, 445 pages) :: illustrations
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0511622988
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: 1107316049
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0521008883
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0521810663
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9780521008883
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9780521008884
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9780521810661
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9780521810663
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Climate change: scientific background and introduction -- Future scenarios of development and climate change -- Framework for making development more sustainable: concepts and analytical tools -- Making development more sustainable -- Adaptation to climate change: concepts, approaches and linkages with wider sustainable development issues -- Vulnerability, impacts and adaptation by sectors and systems -- Vulnerability, impacts and adaptation by geographic region -- Mitigating climate change: concepts and linkages with sustainable development -- Mitigating measures: technologies, practices, barriers and policy instruments -- Assessment of mitigation costs and benefits -- Climate change and sustainable development: a synthesis.
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"This Primer on Climate Change and Sustainable Development gives an up-to-date, comprehensive and accessible overview of the links between climate change and sustainable development. Building on the main findings of the last series of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment reports, in which both authors were involved, the book summarizes the latest research linking climate change and sustainable development." "This book will be compulsory reading for those policy-makers, scientists, students and engaged citizens around the world who have an interest in any aspect of climate change and sustainable development."--Jacket.
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Climatic changes.
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Sustainable development.
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Climat-- Changements.
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Développement durable.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Development-- Sustainable Development.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Environmental Economics.
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Climatic changes.
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Klimaänderung
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Nachhaltigkeit
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Sustainable development.
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Umweltpolitik
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Duurzame ontwikkeling.
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Klimaatveranderingen.
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| Dewey Classification
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338.9/27
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HC79.E5M867 2005eb
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73.08bcl
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GEO 780fstub
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RB 10438rvk
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Swart, R. J.
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