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Climate Change as Environmental and Economic Hazard (Paperback)
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Climate Change as Environmental and Economic Hazard (Paperback)
Series: Environmental Hazards Series
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The current policy for climate change prioritises mitigation over
adaptation. The collected papers of Climate Change as Environmental
and Economic Hazard argue that although efforts to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions are still vital, the new policy paradigm
should shift the priority to adaptation, with a special focus on
disaster risk reduction. It should also consider climate change not
purely as a hazard and a challenge, but as a window of opportunity
to shift to a new sustainable development policy model, which
stresses the particular importance of communities' resilience. The
papers in this volume explore the key issues linked to this shift,
including: ' Increasing research into the Earth Sciences, climate
reconstruction and forecasting in order to decrease the degree of
uncertainty about the origin, development and implications of
climate change; ' The introduction of more binding and
comprehensive regulation of both greenhouse gas emissions and
adaptation measures, like that in the United Kingdom; ' Matching
climate policy with that for disasters and mainstreaming it into
overall development strategies. The volume is a valuable addition
to previous climate change research and considers a new policy
approach to this new global challenge.
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