Climate Risk and Resilience in China (Record no. 26220)

MARC details
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ISBN 9781138818842
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Classification number 363.7380951
Item number CLI-
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Title Climate Risk and Resilience in China
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Name of publisher Routledge
Year of publication 2016
Place of publication New York
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Number of Pages xx, 340p
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Bibliography, etc Include Index
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Summary, etc China has been subject to floods, droughts and heat waves for millennia; these hazards are not new. What is new is how rapidly climate risks are changing for different groups of people and sectors. This is due to the unprecedented rates of socio-economic development, migration, land-use change, pollution and urbanisation, all occurring alongside increasingly more intense and frequent weather hazards and shifting seasons. China’s leadership is facing a significant challenge – from conducting and integrating biophysical and social vulnerability and risk assessments and connecting the information from these to policy priorities and time frames, to developing and implementing policies and actions at a variety of scales. It is within this challenging context that China’s policy makers, businesses and citizens must manage climate risk and build resilience. This book provides a detailed study of how China has been working to understand and respond to climatic risk, such as droughts and desertification in the grasslands of Inner Mongolia to deadly typhoons in the mega-cities of the Pearl River Delta. Using research and data from a wide range of Chinese sources and the Adapting to Climate Change in China (ACCC) project, a research-to-policy project, this book provides a fascinating glimpse into how China is developing policies and approaches to manage the risks and opportunities presented by climate change.
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Topical Term Environmental policy
Form subdivision Climatic changes--Government policy
-- Climate change mitigation
Geographic subdivision China
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Personal name Nadin, Rebecca
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Personal name Opitz-Stapleton Sarah
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Personal name Yinlong Xu
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        NASSDOC Library NASSDOC Library 15/07/2020 OP 2345.99 2020-06-11 363.7380951 CLI- 50979 3213.69 11/06/2020 Books