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245 00 Climate change and global poverty : |ba billion lives in the balance? / |cLael Brainard, Abigail Jones, Nigel Purvis, editors.
260    Washington, D.C. : |bBrookings Institution Press, |cc2009.
300    viii, 299 p. : |bill., maps ; |c23 cm.
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504    Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0  Double jeopardy : what the climate crisis means for the poor / Abigail Jones, Vinca LaFleur, and Nigel Purvis -- Climate change impacts in the developing world : implications for sustainable development / Anthony Nyong -- Toward a new international climate change agreement / Elliot Diringer -- Greenhouse gas mitigation efforts in China : progress and opportunities / Ned Helme -- Linking communities, forests, and carbon / Michael Jenkins -- Integrating climate change into development : multiple benefits of mitigation and adaptation / Atiq Rahman -- Development in the balance : agriculture and water / Robert Mendelsohn -- Public health adaptation to climate change in low-income countries / Kristie L. Ebi -- Linking adaptation and disaster risk reduction / Saleemul Huq and Jessica Ayers -- The climate-security connection : what it means for the poor / Joshua W. Busby -- Financing adaptation to a warmer world : opportunities for innovation and experimentation / Manish Bapna and Heather McGray -- Exploring the potential for public-private insurance to help the world's poor to adapt and thrive as the climate changes / Ian Burton and Thea Dickinson -- Corporate action on climate adaptation and development : mobilizing new partnerships to build climate change resilience in developing countries and communities / Jane Nelson -- Mobiliziing action for climate change adaptation in the North and South / Heather K. Coleman, Raymond C. Offenheiser, and David Waskow
520    "Discusses how climate solutions must empower global development by improving livelihoods, health, and economic prospects and how poverty alleviation must become a central strategy for reducing global vulnerability to adverse climate impacts. Draws on expertise to ask how public, private sectors can help the poor manage the global climate crisis"--Provided by publisher.
650  0 Climatic changes |xEconomic aspects
650  0 Global environmental change
650  0 Global temperature changes.
650  0 Poverty |xGovernment policy.
650  0 Economic geography.
650  0 Economic development |xInternational cooperation
700 1  Brainard, Lael.
700 1  Jones, Abigail.
700 1  Purvis, Nigel.
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