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    Risk and Resilience in the Era of Climate Change

    Risk and Resilience in the Era of Climate Change by Thomas, Vinod;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 2023
    • Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
    • Date of Publication 2 April 2025
    • Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book

    • ISBN 9789811986239
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages201 pages
    • Size 210x148 mm
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 3 Illustrations, black & white; 18 Illustrations, color
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    Short description:

    This 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.

    Vinod 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).

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    Long description:

    This 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.


    “An essential read for anyone who wants to understand the challenges posed by climate change and the importance of building resilience to these risks. The book is a valuable resource for policymakers, businesses, and individuals who are interested in learning more about climate change risk and resilience. It is also a timely and important contribution to the growing body of literature on this critical issue.” (Jubo Yan, The Singapore Economic Review, Vol. 69 (3), 2024) 

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    Table of Contents:

    Chapter 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.
















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