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Energy, climate change and low carbon development in China
F. Urban (ed);Y. Wang (ed);J. Glyde (ed) / Climate Change and Disasters Group, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK, 2009
This policy briefing discusses the dilemma emerging economies like China, India and South Africa are facing in increasing their levels of development. Developing countries have, in the past, not contr...
IDS In-Focus Issue 2: Climate Change Adaptation
T. Tanner;T. Mitchell;M. Davies / Climate Change and Disasters Group, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK, 2007
Today climate change adaptation is a mainstream development issue. The UK Government-commissioned Stern Review last year analysed the economics of adaptation and NGO campaigns have focused on its j...
Who governs the global environment?
J. Hertin; I Scoones; F. Berkhout / Climate Change and Disasters Group, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK, 2000
Planet-wide environmental problems like climate change and depletion of the ozone layer first became common knowledge and mainstream political concerns in the early 1990's, partly through the public a...
Climate change and development: overview
F. Yamin / Climate Change and Disasters Group, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK, 2004
Although climate change is now firmly established as a global threat, policy-relevant research into the impacts of climate change on vulnerable, poorer countries is a relatively new development. This ...
Vulnerability, adaptation and climate disasters: a conceptual overview
F. Yamin; A. Rahman; S. Huq / Climate Change and Disasters Group, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK, 2005
The policy paper (a primer to a more comprehensive policy bulletin) draws insights from the Linking Climate Adaptation (LCA) project, and addresses climate change adaptation and developing countries’ ...
Linking relief and development: an introduction and overview
M. Buchanan-Smith; S. Maxwell / Climate Change and Disasters Group, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK, 1994
There are currently key deficiencies in international emergency relief and development fields. These discrepancies are associated with issues of emergencies considerably disrupting development proces...
The international climate change regime: a guide to rules, institutions and procedures
F. Yamin; J. Depledge / Climate Change and Disasters Group, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK, 2004
This book aims to provide a comprehensive and accessible guide to the climate change regime. It describes and analyses the rules set out in the Convention, Kyoto Protocol and COP decisions, together w...
Developing countries: victims or participants, their changing role in international negotiations
S. Page / Climate Change and Disasters Group, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK, 2003
This paper questions how developing countries can effectively participate in international negotiations as they become an increasingly important part of the international system.The author addresse...

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