Business and policy solutions to climate change : from mitigation to adaptation

Business and policy solutions to climate change : from mitigation to adaptation / Thomas Walker, Stefan Wendt, Sherif Goubran, Tyler Schwartz, editors.

This edited book aims to ignite both an academic and practitioner-oriented discussion regarding the question how the business and government sector can adapt to todays fast-changing climate. Specifically, the collection seeks to explore how businesses and policy makers can prepare for a world where...

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Other Authors: Walker, Thomas (Thomas J.) (Editor), Wendt, Stefan (Professor of business) (Editor), Goubran, Sherif, 1991- (Editor), Schwartz, Tyler (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Series:Palgrave studies in sustainable business in association with future Earth.
Subjects:
Business enterprises > Environmental aspects.
Climatic changes > Government policy.
Business enterprises > Environmental aspects
Climatic changes > Government policy
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Climate Change Adaptation: An Overview
  • Chapter 2: Defining Net-Zero and Climate Recommendations for Carbon Offsetting
  • Part 2: Ecology and the Natural Environment
  • Chapter 3: Green Infrastructure Mapping for Adaptation, Biodiversity, and Health and Wellbeing: A Tool Development Case Study in Edinburgh
  • Chapter 4: Agroecological Approaches for Climatic Change Mitigation and Adaptation: Experiences from the South to Encourage Direct Producer-Consumer Relationships
  • Chapter 5: Sustainable Renaturation in Desertification Control: Expediting the Natural Succession of Large-Scale Vegetation in Drylands
  • Part 3: Finance and the Economy
  • Chapter 6: Weaknesses in Corporate Commitments to ClimateChangeAdaptation and How to FixThem: A Systemic Scenario Assessment Approach
  • Chapter 7: Climate Finance: A Business-Ethical Analysis
  • Chapter 8: Risk-Rating GHG Emissions Offsets based on Climate Requirements
  • Chapter 9: An Investigation of Climate Change within the Framework of a Schumpeterian Economic Growth Model
  • Chapter 10: Culture, Economics, and Climate Change Adaptation
  • Chapter 11: Investors Adaptation to Climate Change: A Temporal Portfolio Choice Model with Diminishing Climate Duration Hazard
  • Part 4: Cities and Urban Areas
  • Chapter 12: Mainstreaming Adaptation into Urban Planning: Projects and Changes in Regulatory Frameworks for Resilient Cities
  • Chapter 13: Path-Dependency as a Potential Cause for the Disjunction between Theory and Tools in the Modelled Reality of Sustainable Architecture
  • Part 5: Global Perspectives
  • Chapter 14: Addressing Climate Change and Waste Management Problems through the Development of the Waste-to-Energy Value Chain for Trinidad and Tobago
  • Chapter 15: The Role of Businesses in Climate Change Adaptation in the Arctic
  • Chapter 16: Climate Risk on the Rise: Canadas Approach to Limiting Future Climate Impacts
  • Chapter 17: Unlocking Climate Finance to Compensate Caribbean Small Island Developing States for Damages and Losses from Climate Change
  • Chapter 18: Integrating Local and Indigenous Knowledge for Climate Change Adaptation in Africa.

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