Socio Economic Issues on Climate Change Book

Contents: 1. Basic concepts and definition. 2. Climate change basic issues. 3. Development of climate change issue. 4. Macroeconomic issues of climate change. 5. Cost issues in climate change adaptation. 6. Climate change business and trade. 7. Assessment of climate change. 8. The behavioural economics of climate change. 9. Climate change adaptation. 10. Issues on climate mitigation and adaptation. 11. Human security issues on climate change. 12. Climate change and social justice. 13. Psychosocial impacts of climate change. 14. Climate change challenges. 15. Climate change and water. 16. Climate change and health issues. 17. Climate change and food security issues. 18. Climate change and marine biodiversity. 19. Financing climate change. 20. Climate change Governance. 21. Climate change and biodiversity. 22. Climate change convention. References. Index.

The most general definition of climate change is a change in the statistical properties of the climate system when considered over long periods of time. The term sometimes is used to refer specifically to climate change caused by human activity, as opposed to changes in climate that may have resulted as part of Earth’s natural processes. In this sense, especially in the context of environmental policy, the term climate change has become synonymous with anthropogenic global warming. Within scientific journals global warming refers to surface temperature increases while climate change includes global warming and everything else that increasing greenhouse gas levels will affect. (jacket)