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Preface
Climate change is rapidly proceeding, and climate-related risks are being exacer-
bated. The year 2018 brought about new temperature records in regions of Africa
andAsia (with temperatures exceedingunprecedented50 °C), thehottestEuropean
summer in recent historywith heatwaves fromAlgeria to theArctic, also bringing
along forestfires anddrought, severeflooding in southern India andBangladesh, as
well as massive cyclone damage in Fiji. While, largely involuntarily, people and
their assets are increasingly located in harm’s way, the IPCC has shown that the
frequency and severity of climate-related hazards is being adversely shaped by
anthropogenic climate change. Evidence is increasing that those risks have the
potential to significantly affect lives and livelihoods across the globe, as well as
push vulnerable people, communities and countries to their physical and
socio-economic adaptation limits.
The Loss andDamage (L&D) discourse, initiated almost three decades ago by
Small Island States worried about sea level rise, has given voice to concerns for
climate change-related impacts that may be irreversible and beyond physical and
social adaptation limits. Thediscourse has become institutionalised in international
climate policy through theWarsawMechanism on Loss andDamages adopted in
2013 and was given firm consideration in the Paris Agreement in 2015. While
expectationsbypolicyadvisorsandcivil society for theL&Ddiscourseare looming
large, the science has been trailing behind. This is impeding a step-change from
debate to concrete policy deliberation and on-the-ground implementation.
This book provides science-based insight and inroads into the L&D discourse.
The volume, made up of 22 chapters by experts and two forewords by L&D
policymakers and negotiators, articulates the multiple concepts, principles and
methodsaswell asplace-based insight relevant forL&D. It additionally identifies a
number of propositions that may serve as a foundation for improved policy for-
mulation.Thevolume is thefirst comprehensiveoutcomeof the“LossandDamage
Network”, a partnership effort by scientists and practitioners bringing together
members frommore than twenty-five institutions around the globe.
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Loss and Damage from Climate Change
Concepts, Methods and Policy Options
- Titel
- Loss and Damage from Climate Change
- Untertitel
- Concepts, Methods and Policy Options
- Autoren
- Reinhard Mechler
- Laurens M. Bouwer
- Thomas Schinko
- Swenja Surminski
- JoAnne Linnerooth-Bayer
- Verlag
- Springer Open
- Datum
- 2019
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-319-72026-5
- Abmessungen
- 16.0 x 24.0 cm
- Seiten
- 580
- Schlagwörter
- Environment, Climate change, Environmental law, Environmental policy, Risk management
- Kategorien
- International
- Naturwissenschaften Umwelt und Klima