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Climate change and human development / Hannah Reid.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London, UK : Zed Books, [2014]Description: x, 287 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781780324418 (hb)
  • 1780324413 (hb)
  • 9781780324401 (pb)
  • 1780324405 (pb)
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Contents:
Climate change : what to expect -- Food and farming -- Water -- Health -- Energy -- Disasters -- The natural environment -- Cities -- Women -- Trade -- Migration -- Conflict -- What next?
Summary: "Climate Change and Human Development offers a rich compendium or real-life scenarios of how the world's poor are suffering from, but also coping with, climate change today. Drawing on case studies gathered by Up in Smoke--a powerful coalition of global environment and development organizations, including Greenpeace, Oxfam, Practical Action and WWF--this book provides new models for human development in a climate-change-constrained future, while also providing proposals for tackling climate change at the macro-level."--Page 4 of cover.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Books Books Library, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) Reference Stacks 338.927 R353c 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 01 Not For Loan 024204
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-276) and index.

Climate change : what to expect -- Food and farming -- Water -- Health -- Energy -- Disasters -- The natural environment -- Cities -- Women -- Trade -- Migration -- Conflict -- What next?

"Climate Change and Human Development offers a rich compendium or real-life scenarios of how the world's poor are suffering from, but also coping with, climate change today. Drawing on case studies gathered by Up in Smoke--a powerful coalition of global environment and development organizations, including Greenpeace, Oxfam, Practical Action and WWF--this book provides new models for human development in a climate-change-constrained future, while also providing proposals for tackling climate change at the macro-level."--Page 4 of cover.

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