The Climate Change Crisis
Solutions and Adaption for a Planet in Peril
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Beschreibung
This book explores how the world community will respond to the unfolding humanitarian crisis caused by climate change. It recognises climate change as the greatest threat to human development in the 21st century, bringing with it: flooding, drought, extreme temperatures, health crises, threats to human security and severe harm to economic development.
The Climate Change Crisis addresses climate change and its impact as a major threat for countries around the world. Through a collection of interviews with leading environmentalists and exploration into new innovations that can offer hope and protection for billions of people, this book presents an interdisciplinary approach towards understanding the paramount health and development challenges of climate change.
This timely and informative book cuts across several disciplines, including human rights, public policy, international relations, national refugee policy, and migration studies.
Offers an overview of the current climate refugee crisis
Critically engages with national and international climate change mitigation programs, including those devised by United Nations
Provides an important focus on the innovations that could help tackle the effects of the humanitarian crisis caused climate change
Offers an overview of the current climate refugee crisis Critically engages with national and international climate change mitigation programs, including those devised by United Nations Provides an important focus on the innovations that could help tackle the effects of the humanitarian crisis caused climate change
Autor*in
Ross Michael Pink
Themen in »The Climate Change Crisis«
Climate Change Crisis Humanitarian Crisis Caused by Climate Change Climate Change by 2100 Climate Change in the Twenty-First Century Solutions to Climate Change Adaptations to Climate Change climate change impacts Environmental Geography Climate change management climate change