Reducing Poverty, Protecting Livelihoods, and Building Assets in a Changing Climate : Social Implications of Climate Change for Latin America and the Caribbean
This book provides a much needed look at the impact of climate change on the poor. It convincingly demonstrates that issues of poverty and livelihoods must be integrated into climate change policies to help achieve sustainable development gains. Th...
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World Bank
2012
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| Online Access: | http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000333038_20100706032022 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/2473 |
| Summary: | This book provides a much needed look at
the impact of climate change on the poor. It convincingly
demonstrates that issues of poverty and livelihoods must be
integrated into climate change policies to help achieve
sustainable development gains. The high incidence of natural
disasters, growing urbanization, and increased water
scarcity combined with the acute impact of these phenomena
on the poor and vulnerable complicates the already enormous
challenge of reducing poverty and inequality in Latin
America and the Caribbean. This publication lays bare the
social implications of climate change and equips the reader
with a framework for understanding how climate change and
climate variability affect livelihoods, poverty, income,
health, and migration. These scenarios call for greater
efforts to incorporate poverty, livelihood, and social
considerations into climate change adaptation and mitigation
policies. Purposefully targeted policies and investments can
support economic growth and poverty reduction efforts and
help achieve sustainable development goals. In other words,
good climate change adaptation policies can also be good
development policies. This book will change the way the
author think about the relationship between poverty, social
development, and climate change. It provides climate-smart
policy options to help reduce vulnerability, protect
livelihoods, and build communities that are resilient to
changing climate conditions. |
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