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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495771703321

Autore

Lebel Thierry

Titolo

Climate change : What challenges for the South? / / Serge Janicot, Catherine Aubertin, Martial Bernoux, Edmond Dounias, Jean-François Guégan, Thierry Lebel, Hubert Mazurek, Benjamin Sultan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Marseille, : IRD Éditions, 2020

ISBN

2-7099-2173-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Collana

Focus

Altri autori (Persone)

MoattiJean-Paul

SokonaYouba

JanicotSerge

AubertinCatherine

BernouxMartial

DouniasEdmond

GuéganJean-François

LebelThierry

MazurekHubert

SultanBenjamin

Soggetti

Economics

changement climatique

hydrologie

inondations

politiques environnementales

résilience

climatologie

Pays du Sud

vulnérabilités

mousson

glaciers

océanographie

climate change

resilience

climatology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The mobilisation centred on the 2015 Paris Climate Conference (COP 21) is an opportunity to highlight the vulnerability of environments and populations in the South in the face of climate warming. Some tropical regions are already suffering from its effects, with heat waves in the Sahel, disturbances to monsoon systems, the melting of the Andean glaciers, threats to biodiversity, a rise in sea level and other features.  Research conducted by IRD and its partners provides key knowledge for better understanding of the complexity of these phenomena. This book is a synthesis in three parts: observing and understanding climate change, analysing its main impacts on environments and setting societies and national public policies at the heart of the climate challenge.  Focused on the capacity for resilience of populations and ecosystems in the face of trends in the climate, the book explores solutions that reconcile mitigation and adaptation in response to climate change, conservation of the environment and a reduction of inequalities. The work is both well documented and explanatory, reviewing operations and the results of research that is firmly involved and interdisciplinary, closely associating partners in the North and the South.