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Exploring Development Futures in a Changing Climate: Frontiers for Development Policy and Practice
Author(s) -
Boyd Emily,
Grist Natasha,
Juhola Sirkku,
Nelson Valerie
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
development policy review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.671
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1467-7679
pISSN - 0950-6764
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-7679.2009.00464.x
Subject(s) - futures contract , globe , corporate governance , climate change , political science , environmental planning , climate finance , policy development , adaptation (eye) , environmental resource management , business , economic growth , developing country , economics , public administration , geography , finance , medicine , ecology , biology , ophthalmology , physics , optics
Climate change poses the most significant foreseeable threat to the development of humankind. Among the parts of the globe liable to be affected, the developing world is the most vulnerable to climate risks. Introducing a DPR theme issue on how development policy is responding to the increasingly pressured global climate agenda, this article reviews what is being done and still needs to be done, paying particular attention to action on three policy frontiers: (i) adaptation actions and finance, (ii) mitigation policies and their governance, and (iii) the implications for development planning. It addresses what will be needed for the development community to rise to the challenge in the run‐up to the Copenhagen conference in 2009 and beyond.