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OverviewThis book presents essential insights on the interaction between rising risks and raising the bar for resilience during the climate crisis. Its timeliness lies in applying important findings on risk and resilience to runaway climate change. When risk and resilience are brought together in the context of climate catastrophes, three key messages emerge. The first is that accounting for the root causes of these calamities, and not just their symptoms, is essential to slowing the spike in these events. It is therefore vital to link carbon emissions from human activity to the sharp rise in climate disasters globally. The second is that growth economics and policy must factor in the failure of governments and businesses to tackle spillover harm from economic activities, as seen dramatically with global warming. With climate risks rising, this calls for a fundamental revision in the teaching and practice of business and economics. And third, prevention must become a far bigger part of resilience building, with greater preparedness for more intense destruction built into interventions. This emphasis on prevention deems disaster recovery as not just returning to how things were but building back better. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Vinod ThomasPublisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 1st ed. 2023 ISBN: 9789811986239ISBN 10: 9811986231 Pages: 201 Publication Date: 15 April 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Opening Summary.- Part I: Risk and Resilence.- Chapter 2: Troubled Times.- Chapter 3: Understanding Risk.- Chaper 4: Resilence That Shapes Risk.- Chapter 5: New Highs in Risk and Resilence.- Part II: the Climate Catastrophe.- Chapter 6: Intractability of Climate Change.- Chapter 7: A Persistently False Dichotomy.- Chapter 8: Integrating Resilence in Policy.- Chapter 9: Transformative Change.ReviewsAuthor InformationVinod Thomas, Visiting Professor at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, was Senior Vice President, Independent Evaluation, at the World Bank, and Director General of Independent Evaluation at the Asian Development Bank. He has authored 17 books, including Climate Change and Natural Disasters (2017). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |