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Climate change and human development / Hannah Reid.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London: Zed Books, 2014.Description: x, 287 pages ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781780324418 (hb)
  • 1780324413 (hb)
  • 9781780324401 (pb)
  • 1780324405 (pb)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QC 903.2.D44 REI 2014
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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Books in General collection Books in General collection Mzuzu University Library and Learning Resources Centre Non-fiction QC 903.2. D44 REI 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 009711 Available MzULM-009711

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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