Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
Toward a Binding Climate Change Adaptation Regime: A Proposed Framework
1st Edition
By Mizan R. Khan
July 16, 2015
The impact of climate change is global both in its cause and its effect. Thus there is a global responsibility for international cooperation to tackle the causes through mitigation strategies such as those agreed at the Durban Platform of December 2011. This climate regime aims to define ...
Post-2020 Climate Change Regime Formation
1st Edition
Edited
By Suh-Yong Chung
June 08, 2015
The fate of the climate change regime hangs in the balance as the UN-led negotiations try to forge a new international strategy for the post-2020 period. Since 1992, the UNFCCC and its Kyoto Protocol has been the primary legal instrument to respond to the climate challenge. However, the ...
Water and Climate Change in Africa: Challenges and Community Initiatives in Durban, Maputo and Nairobi
1st Edition
Edited
By Patricia E. Perkins
June 08, 2015
In the coming decades, countries around the world will face increasingly severe challenges related to global climate change. While the details vary from country to country, the impacts will be especially grave for marginalized people, whose access to food, potable water, and safe shelter may be ...
Local Climate Change and Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Mohamed Salih
December 11, 2014
Although the impacts of climate change are certainly global, its manifestations and subsequent consequences begin locally. Local Climate Change and Society examines how climate change has altered society’s relationship with the environment and particularly local communities to adapt to and mitigate...