development and climate change The World Bank text monographic eng

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xxi , 417 pages : color illustrations , color maps ; 27 cm. Overview : changing the climate for development -- 1. Understanding the links between climate change and development -- Focus A : The science of climate change -- Part one -- 2. Reducing human vulnerability : helping people help themselves -- Focus B : Biodiversity and ecosystem services in a changing climate -- 3. Managing land and water to feed nine billion people and protect natural systems -- 4. Energizing development without compromising -- Part two -- 5. Integrating development into the global climate regime -- Focus C : Trade and climate change -- 6. Generating the funding needed for mitigation -- 7. Accelerating innovation and technology diffusion -- 8. Overcoming behavioral and institutional inertia. Includes bibliographical references, glossary and index. Economic geography Economic development Environmental aspects Climatic changes Economic aspects Climatic changes Environmental aspects HC 60 W67 2010 978-0-8213-7987-5 200103 20200207090857.0