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The current policy for climate change prioritises mitigation over adaptation. The collected papers of Climate Change as Environmental and Economic Hazard argue that although efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are still vital, the new policy paradigm should shift the priority to adaptation, with a special focus on disaster risk reduction. It should also consider climate change not purely as a hazard and a challenge, but as a window of opportunity to shift to a new sustainable development policy model, which stresses the particular importance of communities' resilience. The papers in this volume explore the key issues linked to this shift, including: 'Increasing research into the Earth Sciences, climate reconstruction and forecasting in order to decrease the degree of uncertainty about the origin, development and implications of climate change; 'The introduction of more binding and comprehensive regulation of both greenhouse gas emissions and adaptation measures, like that in the United Kingdom; 'Matching climate policy with that for disasters and mainstreaming it into overall development strategies. The volume is a valuable addition to previous climate change research and considers a new policy approach to this new global challenge.
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■ The current policy for climate change prioritizes mitigation over adaptation. The collected papers of Climate Change as Environmental and Economic Hazard argue that although efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are still vital, the new policy paradigm should shift the priority to adaptation, with a special focus on disaster risk reduction. It should also consider climate change not purely as a hazard and a challenge, but rather as an opportunity to shift to a new sustainable development policy model, a model designed to stress the particular importance of communities’ resilience. ■ The papers in this special issue of the Environmental Hazards journal explore the key issues linked to this shift, including: ●
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Increasing research into the earth sciences, climate reconstruction and forecasting in order to decrease the degree of uncertainty about the origin, development and implications of climate change The introduction of more binding and comprehensive regulation of both greenhouse gas emissions and adaptation measures, like that in the United Kingdom Matching climate policy with that for disasters and introducing it into mainstream development strategies
Climate change as environmental and economic hazard
Climate change as environmental and economic hazard
Climate change as environmental and economic hazard
This volume is a valuable addition to previous climate change research and considers a new policy approach to this new global challenge.
Economics/Environment publishing for a sustainable future
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Guest Editor: Boris Porfiriev
■ Professor Boris Porfiriev is Director of the Risk and Crisis Research Center at the Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia.
Guest Editor
Boris Porfiriev Russian Academy of Sciences
VOLUME 8 ISSUE 3 2009 SPECIAL ISSUE
Special issue: Climate change as environmental and economic hazard Environmental Hazards 8(3) September 2009. Published by Earthscan: Dunstan House, 14a St Cross Street, London EC1N 8XA, UK.
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