Reducing poverty, protecting livelihoods, and building assets in a changing climate social implications of climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Verner, Dorte
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C World Bank 2010
Series:Directions in development. Environment and sustainable development
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Collection: World Bank E-Library Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • IntroductionWater scarcity, climate change, and the poor
  • Climate change, disaster hotspots, and asset erosion
  • Agrarian livelihoods and climate change
  • Coastal livelihoods and climate change
  • Human health and climate change
  • Migration and climate change
  • Conflict and climate change
  • Simulating the effects of climate change on poverty and inequality
  • Building short-term coping capacity and longer-term resilience through asset-based adaptation
  • Conclusion.