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  • Shock Waves

    Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty

    by Stephane Hallegatte, Mook Bangalore, Laura Bonzanigo, Marianne Fay, Tamaro Kane, Ulf Narloch, Julie Rozenberg, David Treguer, Adrien Vogt-Schilb ...
    Series series Climate Change and Development
    Can developing countries eradicate poverty in the face of climate change?Shock Waves examines the complex relationship between climate change and poverty, offering strategies for managing climate impacts on vulnerable populations. This report demonstrates the urgency of reducing poverty and vulnerability to climate change.Discover how rapid, inclusive, and climate-informed development can prevent ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shock Waves

    Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty

    by Stephane Hallegatte, Mook Bangalore, Laura Bonzanigo, Fay, Tamaro Kane, Ulf Narloch, Julie Rozenberg, David Treguer, Adrien Vogt-Schilb ...
    Series series Climate Change and Development
    Ending poverty and stabilizing climate change will be two unprecedented global achievements and two major steps toward sustainable development. But the two objectives cannot be considered in isolation: they need to be jointly tackled through an integrated strategy. This report brings together those two objectives and explores how they can more easily be achieved if considered together. It examines ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Rethinking Infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean

    Spending Better to Achieve More

    by Marianne Fay, Luis Alberto Andres, Charles Fox, Ulf Narloch, Stephane Straub, Michael Slawson ...
    Series series Directions in Development - Infrastructure
    Latin America and the Caribbean does not have the infrastructure it needs, or deserves, given its income. Many argue that the solution is to spend more; by contrast, this report has one main message: Latin America can dramatically narrow its infrastructure service gap by spending efficiently on the right things. ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Decarbonizing Development

    Three Steps to a Zero-Carbon Future

    by Marianne Fay, Stephane Hallegatte, Adrien Vogt-Schilb, Rozenberg, Ulf Narloch, Tom Kerr ...
    Series series Climate Change and Development
    The science is unequivocal: stabilizing climate change implies bringing net carbon emissions to zero. This must be done by 2100 if we are to keep climate change anywhere near the 2oC warming that world leaders have set as the maximum acceptable limit. Decarbonizing Development: Three Steps to a Zero-Carbon Future looks at what it would take to decarbonize the world economy by 2100 in a way that is ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Decarbonizing Development

    Three Steps to a Zero-Carbon Future

    by Marianne Fay, Stephane Hallegatte, Adrien Vogt-Schilb, Julie Rozenberg, Ulf Narloch, Tom Kerr ...
    Series series Climate Change and Development
    Can development be decoupled from carbon emissions? This insightful guide outlines practical steps for policymakers, academics, and development practitioners to achieve a zero-carbon future while fostering economic growth and protecting vulnerable populations.Decarbonizing Development tackles the complex challenge of climate change by offering a three-pronged approach:Planning with the end goal in ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Adapting to Our New Economic Reality

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  • Policy Instruments for Environmental and Natural Resource Management

    by Thomas Sterner, Jessica Coria ...
    Thomas Sterner's book is an attempt to encourage more widespread and careful use of economic policy instruments. The book compares the accumulated experiences of the use of economic policy instruments in the U.S. and Europe, as well as in rich and poor countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Ambitious in scope, it discusses the design of instruments that can be employed in any country in a ... Read more

    $133.99 CAD

  • Inclusive Wealth Report 2018

    Measuring Progress Towards Sustainability

    Edited by Shunsuke Managi, Pushpam Kumar ...
    The Inclusive Wealth Index provides important insights into long-term economic growth and human well-being. The Index measures the wealth of nations through a comprehensive analysis of a country's productive base and the country’s wealth in terms of progress, well-being and long-term sustainability. It measures all assets which human well-being is based upon, in particular, produced, human and ... Read more

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  • Saving for Development

    How Latin America and the Caribbean Can Save More and Better

    by Inter-American Development Bank ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Why should people - and economies - save? This book on the savings problem in Latin America and the Caribbean suggests that, while saving to survive the bad times is important, saving to thrive in the good times is what really counts. People must save to invest in health and education, live productive and fulfilling lives, and make the most of their retirement years. Firms must save to grow their ... Read more

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  • Prioritizing Development

    A Cost Benefit Analysis of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals

    Edited by Bjorn Lomborg ...
    This book is a unique guide to making the world a better place. Experts apply a critical eye to the United Nations' Sustainable Development agenda, also known as the Global Goals, which will affect the flow of $2.5 trillion of development aid up until 2030. Renowned economists, led by Bjorn Lomborg, determine what pursuing different targets will cost and achieve in social, environmental and ... Read more

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  • The End of Growth

    Adapting to Our New Economic Reality

    by Richard Heinberg ...
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  • Global Problems, Smart Solutions

    Costs and Benefits

    Edited by Bjørn Lomborg ...
    Every four years since 2004, the Copenhagen Consensus Center has organized and hosted a high profile thought experiment about how a hypothetical extra $75 billion of development assistance money might best be spent to solve twelve of the major crises facing the world today. Collated in this specially commissioned book, a group of more than 50 experts make their cases for investment, discussing how ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD