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Distributional Impacts Of Climate Change And Disasters |
Edited by Matthias Ruth, Roy F. Weston Chair in Natural Economics, University of Maryland, US, Director, Center for Integrative Environmental Research, and Co-Director, Engineering and Public Policy Program. He is also Visiting Member of the Faculty, Center for Sustainability, University of Bremen, Germany and María E. Ibarrarán, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Business, Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla, Mexico
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Contents:
Foreword
Mario Molina
PART I: BACKGROUND
1. Introduction: Distributional Effects of Climate Change – Social and Economic Implications
Matthias Ruth and María E. Ibarrarán
2. Vulnerability, Sensitivity and Coping/Adapting Capacity Worldwide
Elizabeth Malone and Antoinette Brenkert
3. Climate Change and Natural Disasters: Economic and Distributional Impacts
María E. Ibarrarán and Matthias Ruth
PART II: DIFFERENTIAL IMPACTS
4. Health Impact of Heat: Present Realities and Potential Impacts of a Climate Change
Laurence Kalkstein, Christina Koppe, Simone Orlandini, Scott Sheridan, and Karen Smoyer-Tomic
5. Gender and Climate Change Vulnerability: What’s the Problem, What’s the Solution?
Anthony G. Patt, Angie Dazé and Pablo Suarez
6. Income Distribution Effects of Policies to Mitigate Greenhouse Gases: The Case of Mexico
Roy Boyd and María E. Ibarrarán
7. Climate Change and Cities: Differential Impacts and Adaptation Options in Industrialized Countries
Matthias Ruth, Paul H. Kirshen and Dana Coelho
8. Climate Information, Equity and Vulnerability Reduction
Pablo Suarez, Jesse C. Ribot and Anthony G. Patt
9. The Security Challenges of Climate Change: Who is at Risk and Why?
Timothy Gulden
10. Distributional Effects and Change of Risk Management Regimes: Explaining Different Types of Adaptation in Germany and Indonesia
Hellmuth Lange, Heiko Garrelts, Winfried Osthorst and Farid Selmi
11. Conclusions
María E. Ibarrarán and Matthias Ruth
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2009
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232 pp
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Hardback |
978 1 84844 037 1
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