Reducing poverty, protecting livelihoods, and building assets in a changing climate: [electronic resource] social implications of climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean / Dorte Verner, editor.
Series: Directions in development. Environment and sustainable development | World Bank e-LibraryPublication details: Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 2010.Description: xxii, 431 p. : col. ill., col. maps; 23 cmISBN:- 9780821382387
- 9780821383780 (electronic)
- Climatic changes -- Economic aspects -- Caribbean Area
- Climatic changes -- Economic aspects -- Latin America
- Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Caribbean Area
- Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Latin America
- Economic assistance
- Human beings -- Effect of climate on
- Poverty -- Caribbean Area
- Poverty -- Latin America
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- HC130.P6 R43 2010
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Water 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.
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