Climate Resilient Development
Participatory solutions from developing countries
Edited by Astrid Carrapatoso, Edith Kürzinger
To Be Published September 12th 2013 by Routledge – 312 pages
Description
The concept of resilience currently infuses policy debates and public discourse, and is promoted as a normative concept in climate policy making by governments, non-governmental organizations, and think-tanks.
This book critically discusses climate resilient development in the context of current deficiencies of multilateral climate management strategies and processes. It analyses innovative climate policy options at national, (inter-) regional and local levels from a mainly Southern perspective, thus contributing to the topical debate on alternative climate governance and resilient development models. Case studies from Africa, Asia and Latin America give a ground level view of how ideas from resilience could be used to inform and guide more radical development and particularly how these ideas might help to re-think the notion of "progress" in the light of environmental, social, economic and cultural changes at multiple scales, from local to global. It integrates theory and practice with the aim to provide practical solutions to improve, complement, or, where necessary, reasonably bypass the UNFCCC process through a bottom up approach which can effectively tap unused climate resilient development potentials at the local, national and regional levels.
This innovative book gives policy makers, practitioners, and students and scholars in environmental and development studies an invaluable analysis of climate change mitigation and adaptation options in the absence of effective multilateral provisions.
Contents
Part I: Introduction 1. Why This Book? Why Now? Astrid Carrapatoso and Edith Kürzinger 2. Finding a Panacea? An Introduction into Climate-Resilient Development, Astrid Carrapatoso and Edith Kürzinger Part II: The Contribution of Local, Regional, and National Approaches to Climate-Resilient Development, or What Good Practices Can Be Disseminated or Mainstreamed? 3. Shaping Strategies: Factors and Actors in Climate Change Adaptation, Ciara Marie Kirrane, Cliona Sharkey and Lars Otto Naess 4. Climate Change Adaptation: International Policy and Field Reality in Benin, Marie-Ange Baudoin 5.Building Community-Based Institutions in the Western Orissa Rural Livelihoods Project (WORLP) for Green Development),Bhaskar Reddy Gala and Niranjan Sahu 6.How Good Are Good Practices? Demystifying Community-Based Disaster Risk Management in Mozambique ,Luís J. Artur 7.Making a Difference through Integrated Natural Resource Management Programmes (INRM): The Role of KNUST University in Ghana,Sampson E. Edusah Part III: Climate-Resilient Development, Innovation, and Best Practice – How to Reform and Bypass Inefficiencies in the International Climate Regime 8.Green Gold versus Black Gold – Climate Change, Development and the Yasuní-ITT Initiative: An Alternative Way Forward? , Amy Woodrow-Arai 9. Developing Economies in the Current Climate Change Regime – New Prospects for Resilience and Sustainability? The Case of CDM Projects in Asia, Pauline Lacour and Jean-Christophe Simon 10. Does the Right Hand Know What the Left Hand is Doing? Similar Problem, Opposing Remedies – A Comparison of the Montreal Protocol and UNFCCC,Thomas Grammig 11.Interregional Climate Cooperation: EU-China Relations as a Success Story?Astrid Carrapatoso and Mareike Well 12. How to Bypass Multilateral Gridlocks – Resilient Climate Change Management and Efficient Multi-Level Climate Politics Bottom-up, Edith KürzingeR Part IV: The Way Forward to Climate-Resilient Development 12.Conclusions for Research and Policy Agendas, Astrid Carrapatoso and Edith Kürzinger
Author Bio
Astrid Carrapatoso is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany.
Edith Kürzinger is a freelance consultant, coach and trainer on sustainability issues with a background in development research (German Development Institute – DIE), development policy (Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development – BMZ) and project management (GTZ).
Name: Climate Resilient Development: Participatory solutions from developing countries (Hardback) – Routledge
Description: Edited by Astrid Carrapatoso, Edith Kürzinger. The concept of resilience currently infuses policy debates and public discourse, and is promoted as a normative concept in climate policy making by governments, non-governmental organizations, and think-tanks.
This book critically discusses climate...
Categories: Sustainable Development, Climate Change, Environmental Policy, Environmental Economics, Environmental Studies, Environmental Politics, Environmental Politics