Environmental assessments : scenarios, modelling and policy /: scenarios, modelling and policy. ([2020])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by K.N. Ninan (Chairperson, Centre for Economics, Environment and Society, Bangalore, India, and Lead Author, Working Group III, Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Geneva, Switzerland) ; with a foreword by Anne Larigauderie (Executive Secretary, Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), United Nations, Bonn, Germany).
• Editors: Ninan, K. N (Karachepone Ninan), 1950-
• Other Names: Larigauderie, Anne writer of foreword.; Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.
• Contents: Foreword / Anne Larigauderie -- preface -- 1. Introduction / K.N. Ninan -- Part I. Theoretical and conceptual issues -- 2. Developing national scale integrated social-ecological scenarios for Canada's oceans and marine fisheries / Louise S.L. Teh, William W.L. Cheung and U. Rashid Sumaila -- 3. Improving estimates of the economic effects of climate change in integrated assessment models / Lydia F. Prieg and Dmitry Yumashev -- 4. Monitoring and projecting land use and land cover change at multiple spatial scales / Isabel M.D. Rosa -- Part II. Applications and case studies -- 5. The future value of ecosystem services: Global scenarios and national implications / Ida Kubiszewski, Robert Costanza, Sharolyn Anderson and Paul Sutton -- 6. Models and strategies for prioritizing the control of invasive exotic weeds in protected areas: Theoretical and pragmatic challenges / Clement A. Tisdell, Bruce A. Auld and Stephen B. Johnson -- 7. Modelling the role of livestock intensification and deforestation in brazil's nationally determined contribution on emissions mitigation / Rafael De Oliveira Silva, Luis Gustavo Barioni and Dominic Moran -- 8. Spatial modelling and bau scenario analysis of cambodian forest / Ram Avtar, Ridhika Aggarwal and Rajesh Bahadur Thapa -- 9. Climate change and British columbia's staple seafood supply and prices / U. Rashid Sumaila and Vicky W.Y. Lam -- 10. Key socio-economic drivers for environmental change in Latin America and the Caribbean since 1960: Trends, interactions and impacts / Ramón Pichs-Madruga -- 11. Ecosystem service assessment and mapping for sustainable management of wetlands in kerala, India / Michael Sinclair, Andrea Ghermandi, Sheela A. Moses and Sabu Joseph -- 12. The scenario collaboratory: A framework for integrating environmental assessments and scenarios into municipal planning / Liliana Caughman, Noel Plemmons, Fletcher Beaudoin, Michele Crim and Vivek Shandas -- 13. Participatory modelling in adaptive environmental management: A case study in semi-arid northern nicaragua / Federica Ravera, David Tarrasón, Klaus Hubacek, Roberto Molowny-Horas and Jan Sendzimir -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Cheltenham, UK Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxiii, 261 pages)
• Subjects: 333.71/4; Environmental impact analysis -- Methodology; Environmental policy; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781788976879; 1788976878
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 30, 2020).
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