Climate and Development Climate Change and Variability and the Resulting Social, Economic and Technological Implications
The Hamburg Congress on Climate and Development was conceived as a response to the worldwide interest on issues of climatic change and variability. It was intended as an interdisciplinary forum to bring together differing perceptions in a face to face dialogue. Even though concern over climate chang...
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Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Table of Contents:
- 5.1 Responding to Climatic Change: The Crucial Role of the NGOs
- 5.2 Strategies and Recommendations for the Protection of the Tropical Rainforests
- 5.3 Escaping the Heat Trap: Policies to Prevent Climate Change A statement at the Hamburg Congress
- 6 Concerns of Developing Countries
- 6.1 Social Impacts of Climatic Variations, a Developing Region’s Viewpoint
- 6.2 Drought in the Brazilian Northeast: Some Features of its Socio-Economic Impact
- 6.3 Summary of Views of Developing Country Participants Statement at the Hamburg Congress
- 7 International Initiatives
- 7.1 Strategies to Respond to Climate Changes — the Role of International Organisations
- 7.2 Climate and Development: Agricultural Practices and Water Resources
- 7.3 Climate Change and Human Health
- 7.4 Climate Change: Roles of UNESCO and IOC with Particular Reference to the Ocean
- 7.5 An Overview of International Developments, Trends and Actions
- 8 Where do we go from here?
- 1 Overview: Report of the Hamburg Congress
- The Highlights of Deliberations
- The Hamburg Manifesto
- The Hamburg Action Plan
- 2 The Larger Perspectives
- 2.1 Message of UN Secretary General
- 2.2 Opening Speech
- 2.3 Opening Lecture: Climate, Society and the Historical Development
- 2.4 Opening Speech
- 2.5 Statement
- 2.6 Environmental Degradation — a Threat to Development
- 2.7 Possible Policies and Options in the European Community to Respond to Climatic Changes
- 2.8 Political Perception of Climate Change: Still Chalk on the White Wall?
- 2.9 Climatic Change — Its Political Challenge to the International Community
- 3 The Scientists’ Perceptions
- 3.1 Climate and Development: Scientific Efforts and Assessment — The State of the Art
- 3.2 Programmes and Co-operation in Climatic Research — a Means to the Understanding of the Climate System as a Requirement to Cope with the Climate Issue
- Where do we go from here?
- United Nations General Assembly Resolution
- 3.3 To Limit and to Adjust: Some Human Dimensions of Global Climatic Change
- 3.4 Some Strategies of Response in Agriculture to Changes of Climate
- 3.5 Climate Variability, Climate Change and the Development Process in Sub-Saharan Africa
- 3.6 Modelling the Climatic Effects of Trace Gases: Reduction Strategy and Options for a Low Risk Policy
- 3.7 Contributions to the Atmospheric CO2 Increase by Changes in the Land Biosphere: Analysis of the Past and Present, Including Possible Future Developments
- 3.8 Long Range Strategic Concepts to Reduce Drought Damages to Agriculture
- 3.9 Energy Options and Climatic Effects
- 3.10 Anthropogenic Climatic Changes
- 3.11 Climate Change — Secular Trends in Urban Temperature
- 4 The Industry Point View
- 4.1 Industry’s Attitude BDJ
- 4.2 Climatic Risks and the Role of Energy Use
- 4.3 A UNICE Perspective on the Greenhouse Effect.-5 Views of Non-governmental Organisations