Primer on Climate Change and Sustainable Development : Facts, Policy Analysis, and Applications (Paperback)

Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1. Climate change: scientific background and introduction; 2. Future scenarios of development and climate change; 3. Framework for making development more sustainable: concepts and analytical tools; 4. Making development more sustainable; 5. Adaptation to climate change: concepts, approaches and linkages with wider sustainable development issues; 6. Vulnerability, impacts and adaptation by sectors and systems; 7. Vulnerability, impacts and adaptation by geographic region; 8. Mitigating climate change: concepts and linkages with sustainable development; 9. Mitigating measures: technologies, practices, barriers and policy instruments; 10. Assessment of mitigation costs and benefits; 11. Climate change and sustainable development: a synthesis; Index.