Distributional impacts of climate change and disasters concepts and cases
Climate change tends to increase the frequency and intensity of weather-related disasters, which puts many people at risk. Economic, social and environmental impacts further increase vulnerability to disasters and tend to set back development, destroy livelihoods, and increase disparity nationally a...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cheltenham, U.K
Edward Elgar
2009
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| Series: | New horizons in environmental economics
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| Collection: | Edward Elgar eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Climate change tends to increase the frequency and intensity of weather-related disasters, which puts many people at risk. Economic, social and environmental impacts further increase vulnerability to disasters and tend to set back development, destroy livelihoods, and increase disparity nationally and worldwide. This book addresses the differential vulnerability of people and places, introducing concepts and methods for analysis and illustrating the impact on local, regional, national, and global scales pt. I. Background -- pt. II. Differential impacts |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 216 p ill., 1 map |
| ISBN: | 1848440375 9781849802338 9781848440371 |